Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles, and ends, this time for June 14-20, 2019...

145 years ago June 16, 1874 Cartoonist “Dwig” Dwiggins is born. His work appears in newspapers for decades, and he’s best known for School Days and his adaptations of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn characters. (Some of those stories appear in Doc Savage and Supersnipe comic books.)

125 years ago June 16, 1894 ChubbLock Holmes by Jack Butler Yeats is introduced in Comic Cuts.

120 years ago June 20, 1899 Political cartoonist and Resistance leader Jean Moulin is born.

110 years ago June 14, 1909 Singer Burl Ives is born. His voice artistry includes Sam the Snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

105 years ago June 14, 1914 The Teenie Weenies by William Donahey begins in The Chicago Tribune.

105 years ago June 15, 1914 Cartoonist Saul Steinberg is born.

100 years ago June 17, 1919 It’s called Take Barney Google, F’rinstance to begin with, as Barney Google and Snuffy Smith by Billy DeBeck begins.

85 years ago June 18, 1934 Manga creator Mitsuteru Yokoyama is born. He draws Tetsujin 28-go manga, creates Akakage, and produces the 60-volume Sangokushi.

85 years ago June 20, 1934 Eduardo del Rio is born. Working as “Rius,” the writer-artist creates Los Supermachos and Cuba para Principiantes.

75 years ago June 18, 1944 Underground comix cartoonist and poster artist Rick Griffin is born.

70 years ago June 18, 1949 Award-winning writer-artist Chris Van Allsburg is born. Such of his children’s books as The Polar Express and Jumanji tell tales primarily through illustration.

65 years ago June 18, 1954 Editor and publisher Dean Mullaney is born. His Eclipse Enterprises is an early independent comics company, and he goes on to establish IDW’s award-winning The Library of American Comics.

55 years ago June 14, 1964 The Sunday adventure strip Akwas by Mike Roy begins.

55 years ago June 20, 1964 The British comics magazine Wham! begins, introducing Eagle-Eye, Junior Spy by Leo Baxendale.

50 years ago June 14, 1969 The Simpsons writer-producer Tim Long is born.

20 years ago June 15, 1999 Scottish artist John Glashan dies, age 71.

15 years ago June 17, 2004 Bulgarian artist and director Todor Dinov dies, age 84. He was called the Father of Bulgarian animation.

15 years ago June 18, 2004 CrossGen Entertainment files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Tampa.

10 years ago June 19, 2009 Belgian artist Piet Tibos dies, age 78. The creator of De Avonturen van Sebedeus en zijn Ploeg also founded a printing company.

10 years ago June 19, 2009 Marc Sleen Museum opens in Brussels, Belgium: the first dedicated to a Belgian artist while the artist is still alive.

5 years ago June 15, 2014 Award-winning writer-editor Daniel Keyes dies of pneumonia at age 86. Especially known as the author of “Flowers for Algernon,” he also wrote and edited for Marvel and EC.

5 years ago June 15, 2014 Voice artist and American Top 40 host Casey Kasem dies at age 82 of Lewy body dementia. His roles included Shaggy Rogers in Scooby-Doo and several TV Transformers.

5 years ago June 16, 2014 Saturday Evening Post cartoon editor and New Yorker staff cartoonist Charles Barsotti dies of brain cancer at age 80. He created the Sally Bananas strip and others.