Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles and ends, this time for September 14-20, 2018...
95 years ago September 16, 1923 Fatty Finn by Syd Nicholls begins.
80 years ago September 18, 1938 Dutch educational comics artist Johannes Kesler dies at age 74.
75 years ago September 14, 1943 Writer-artist Bill Black is born. He founds, publishes, and owns AC Comics.
70 years ago September 16, 1948 Tintin brings Willy Vandersteen’s Suske en Wiske to its pages and introduces Jacques Martin’s The Adventures of Aiix.
70 years ago September 19, 1948 Games, novel, and comics writer Matthew Costello is born.
65 years ago September 15, 1953 Alan L. Light is born. He creates The Buyer’s Guide for Comic Fandom and Film Collector’s World.
65 years ago September 15, 1953 Collector, writer, and comics historian Kim Metzger is born.
65 years ago September 16, 1953 Writer, actor, and comics historian Joel Thingvall is born.
65 years ago September 19, 1953 General Jumbo by Paddy Brennan begins in The Beano #583.
60 years ago September 14, 1958 Artist Samuel Clarke Hawbaker is born.
60 years ago September 17, 1958 Fan cartoonist Don Martinec is born.
60 years ago September 18, 1958 Norwegian-German cartoonist Olaf Gulbransson dies at age 86.
60 years ago September 20, 1958 Bulgarian caricaturist Aleksandar Dobrinov dies at age 60.
55 years ago September 19, 1963 Political cartoonist David Low dies, age 72. He created “Colonel Blimp.”
50 years ago September 15, 1968 Artist Milton Pagan is born.
35 years ago September 14, 1983 Belgian writer Laure Hovine dies at age 87. She was known for Nic et Nac, co-created with her sister, Jeanne Hovine.
30 years ago September 17, 1988 Fleetway’s Crisis #1 announces that “Third World War” has already begun and (with “New Statesmen”) not all men are created equal. Stories are by Pat Mills, Carlos Ezquerra, John Smith, and Jim Baikie.
30 years ago September 17, 1988 Garfield and Friends begins, based on the comic strip by Jim Davis.
25 years ago September 15, 1993 The Belgian comics magazine Suske en Wiske Weekblad #1 begins as an insert in Suske en Wiske #237.
