Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles, and ends, this time for July 7-13, 2023...
165 years ago July 13, 1858 French artist Fernand Fau is born.
155 years ago July 10, 1868 Swedish artist Axel Bäckman is born.
150 years ago July 11, 1873 Stanley E. Armstrong is born. He’s the third artist to draw Slim Jim and the Force.
130 years ago July 9, 1893 Artist William Meade Prince is born. He draws the newspaper strip Aladdin Junior.
125 years ago July 7, 1898 Valentí Castanys Borràs is born. The Spanish writer-artist-editor creates the El Once supplement for El Correo Catalán.
105 years ago July 8, 1918 Award-winning cartoonist Irwin Hasen is born. With a career beginning in the Golden Age, he co-creates the Dondi newspaper strip with Gus Edson.
105 years ago July 11, 1918 Artist Roy G. Krenkel is born.
100 years ago July 11, 1923 Writer-artist Dan Barry is born. The artist of the Tarzan and Flash Gordon comic strips also writes and draws Dark Horse comics featuring Indiana Jones and Predator.
100 years ago July 11, 1923 Editor and cartoonist Guy Bara is born (as Guy Willems). He creates Max, L’Explorateur, whose adventures appear in a number of European newspapers.
95 years ago July 12, 1928 Artist Al Scaduto is born. He works for decades on Jimmy Hatlo strips and characters, and King Features calls him the “longest continually syndicated cartoonist.”
90 years ago July 7, 1933 Kulafu by Pedrito and Francisco Reyes begins.
90 years ago July 11, 1933 German artist Irmtraut Winkler-Wittig is born.
80 years ago July 8, 1943 Political cartoonist and Resistance leader Jean Moulin dies at age 44 “under Nazi torture.”
65 years ago July 7, 1958 The Spanish comics series La Familia Trapisonda by Francisco Ibáñez Talavera begins.
65 years ago July 13, 1958 Writer-editor-colorist Scott Rockwell is born.
60 years ago July 7, 1963 Belgian artist François-Joseph Herman dies at age 31. He was especially known for his work as assistant to Willy Vandersteen.
60 years ago July 8, 1963 Fred Basset begins. The comic strip is written and drawn by Alex Graham for London’s Daily Mail newspaper.
60 years ago July 8, 1963 Image cofounder and Wetworks creator Whilce Portacio is born.
55 years ago July 7, 1968 Freelance inker Juan Vlasco is born (as Juan Francisco Velasco Hernandez).
30 years ago July 12, 1993 Hungarian writer-artist Tibor Cs. Horváth dies at age 67. Lambiek calls him “the most productive Hungarian comic book scriptwriter and the godfather of comic book adaptations.”
10 years ago July 7, 2013 Golden Age artist Louis Glanzman dies at age 90. He drew for Centaur and Parents’ Magazine Press and illustrated material for magazines and children’s books.
10 years ago July 11, 2013 Chilean artist Percy Eaglehurst dies at age 91. He created the character Pepe Antártico.
10 years ago July 12, 2013 French artist Albert Uderzo is named an Officer in the Légion d’Honneur.
5 years ago July 13, 2018 Prolific award-winning French writer Frank Giroud dies at age 62.
