1900s in comics

none This is a timeline of significant events in comics in the 1900s. 1900 January 7: Carl E. Schultze's Foxy Grandpa makes its debut. It will run until 1939. March 11: Frederick Burr Opper's Happy Hooligan makes its debut in the Hearst newspaper Sunday pages. Don Markstein's Toonopedia Happy Hooligan http://www.toonopedia.com/hooligan.htm May 27: Frank Crane's Willie Westinghouse Edison Smith, the Boy Inventor makes its debut.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/crane_frank.htm Frank Crane lambiek.net May 15, 2020 September 16: Gus Dirks' Latest News from Bugville makes its debut. It will run until 9 March 1902.https://library.osu.edu/dc/catalog?f%5Bcreator_sim%5D%5B%5D=dirks%2C+gus%2C+1879-1902&locale=en Gus Dirks library.osu.edu December: Richard F. Outcault's Poor Li'l Mose is the first comic strip to star a black character. The series will run until August 1902.http://www.toonopedia.com/p-l-mose.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Pore Lil Mose Donald D. Markstein www.toonopedia.comhttps://www.lambiek.net/artists/o/outcault.htm Richard F. Outcault lambiek.net December 30: John Campbell Cory launches Lariat Pete. The comic series will run until 1902.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cory_j_campbell.htm J. Campbell Cory lambiek.net Johannes Franciscus Nuijens (Korporaal Achilles), a Dutch Catholic teacher, publishes the political comic book Aanleiding tot den Engelsch-Transvaalschen Oorlog (Reason for the English-Transvaal War).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/korporaal-achilles.htm Korporaal Achilles lambiek.net Arpad Schmidhammer draws the text comic Totentanz der Politik, a satire on war politics, with the Grim Reaper as its star.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/schmidhammer_arpad.htm Arpad Schmidhammer lambiek.net May 15, 2020 1901 February 11: The regular weather cartoon feature Weatherbird makes its debut in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The first artist to draw it is Harry B. Martin.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/martin_harry_b.htm Harry B. Martin lambiek.net May 25: The final issue of the British comics magazine Funny Wonder is published. September 22: Frederick Burr Opper's Alphonse and Gaston makes its debut. It will run until 1937. October 2: Gene Carr's Lady Bountiful makes its debut. It is the first comic starring a female protagonist.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/carr_gene.htm Gene Carr lambiek.net October 5: The first issue of the Dutch illustrated satirical weekly De Ware Jacob is published. It will run until April 1916.https://www.lambiek.net/aanvang/1900.htm Strips in de periode 1900-1920 www.lambiek.net October 31: The Canadian Arthur Racey creates The Englishman in Canada, a cartoon feature with speech balloons in The Montreal Star. It will run until 1902.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/racey_arthur.htm Arthur Racey lambiek.net November 11: William Wallace Denslow's Billy Bounce makes its debut and will run until 1906.http://www.toonopedia.com/b-bounce.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Billy Bounce Donald D. Markstein www.toonopedia.com December 1: Frank Crane's Muggsy makes its debut. Norman E. Jennett's The Monkey Shines of Marseleen is first published.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jennett_norman.htm Norman E. Jennett lambiek.net May 15, 2020 James Francis Sullivan's long-running comic strip The British Working Man is discontinued.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sullivan_james-francis.htm James Francis Sullivan lambiek.net en 2020-08-08 1902 March 9: The final episode of Gus Dirks' Latest News from Bugville is published. The artist will commit suicide three months later.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dirks_gus.htm Gus Dirks lambiek.net April 6: Ed Carey's Simple Simon makes its debut. It will run until 10 January 1909.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/carey_ed.htm Ed Carey lambiek.net April 27: Ed Payne's Professor O. Howe Wise and Professor I.B. Schmart debuts, which will continue until 1911.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/payne_ed.htm Ed Payne lambiek.net May 15, 2020 May 4: Richard F. Outcault's Buster Brown makes its debut. June 2: In Cleveland, Ohio the Newspaper Enterprise Association is founded, which will become the oldest and longest-running comic strip syndicate in the world.Monmonier Mark S. Maps with the news: the development of American journalistic cartography https://books.google.com/books?id=tx8XR_6IMeAC&q=%22Newspaper+Enterprise+Association%22&pg=PA82 August 28, 2009 1989 University of Chicago Press 978-0-226-53411-4 80–83Hudson Frederick McClung Lee Alfred Luther Mott, Frank American journalism, 1690–1940, Volume 4 https://books.google.com/books?id=HFtfsd3wZeUC&q=%22Newspaper+Enterprise+Association%22&pg=PA589 August 28, 2009 2000 Routledge 978-0-415-22892-3 589–590 August: The final episode of Richard F. Outcault's Poor Li'l Mose is published. August 31: In Rudolph Dirks' The Katzenjammer Kids, Der Captain makes his debut.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dirks_r.htm Rudolph Dirks lambiek.net November 11, 2024 September: Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner's Hugo Hercules makes its debut. It will run until January 1903, but goes down in history as the first prototypical superhero comic.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/koerner_whd.htm William H. D. Koerner lambiek.net November 15: The final episode of J. Campbell Cory's Lariat Pete appears in print, by this point drawn by George Herriman. December 20: Raoul Barré publishes Pour un Dîner de Noël, the first Quebecois comic strip.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/barre_raoul.htm Raoul Barré lambiek.net Oskar Andersson's Mannen Som Gör Vad Som Faller Honom In (The Man Who Does Whatever Comes To His Mind) makes its debut. It will run until 1906.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/andersson_oskar.htm Oskar Andersson lambiek.net F. M. Howarth's Lulu and Leander makes its debut. It will run until 1908.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/howarth_fm.htm F.M. Howarth lambiek.net Julius Stafford Baker's Casey Court makes its debut in Illustrated Chips. It will run continued by other artists until 1953.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/baker_js.htm Julius Stafford Baker (II) lambiek.net Kitazawa Rakuten creates Tagosaku to Mokubē no Tōkyō-Kenbutsu (田吾作と杢兵衛の東京見物,, "Tagosaku and Mokube's Sightseeing in Tokyo") and Haikara Kidorō no Sippai (灰殻木戸郎の失敗,, "The Failures of Kidoro Haikara" for the magazine Jiji Manga. Oliver E. Veal creates Aunt Tozer.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/veal-oe.htm Oliver E. Veal lambiek.net 1903 January January: The final episode of Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner's Hugo Hercules is published. February February 1: Ed Carey's Professor Hypnotiser makes its debut and will run until 23 July 1905. March March 22: Grace Drayton's comic strip character Toodles (later known as Dolly Dimples) makes her debut. She will appear in various incarnations until 1933.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/drayton_g.htm Grace Drayton lambiek.net April April 5: Joseph A. Lemon's Willy Cute makes its debut. It will run until 1906.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lemon_john_a.htm Joseph A. Lemon lambiek.net May 15, 2020 May May 3: Red Shellcope's Jimmie the Messenger Boy makes its debut.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/shellcope_red.htm Red W. Shellcope lambiek.net May 15, 2020 October October 4: Gustave Verbeek's The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo makes its debut. It will run until 15 January 1905.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/verbeck.htm Gustave Verbeck lambiek.net November November 1: Jimmy Swinnerton's Mr. Jack receives its own Sunday page, after making his debut as a character in 1898.http://www.toonopedia.com/mrjack.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Mr. Jack Donald D. Markstein www.toonopedia.com December December 6: J.B. Lowitz' Swifty and his Wonderful Dream makes its debut.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lowitz_jb.htm J. B. Lowitz lambiek.net May 15, 2020 December: Clare Briggs's A. Piker Clerk makes his debut. The series wil run until June 1904.http://www.toonopedia.com/piker.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: A. Piker Clerk Donald D. Markstein www.toonopedia.com Paul Bransom's The Latest News From Bugville makes its debut. It will run until 1912.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bransom_paul.htm Paul Bransom lambiek.net F. M. Howarth's Mr. E.Z. Mark makes its debut. It will run until 1908. James Montgomery Flagg creates Nervy Nat, which will run until 1907.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/flagg_jm.htm James Montgomery Flagg lambiek.net C. M. Payne's Coon Hollow Folks debuts and will run until 1908.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/payne_cm.htm Charles M. Payne lambiek.net May 15, 2020 Specific date unknown Karóly Mühlbeck starts his long-running series Mühlbeck headlines. in the weekly Új Idők.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/muehlbeck_karoly.htm Károly Mühlbeck lambiek.net May 15, 2020 1904 January January 2: George Herriman's Major Ozone's Fresh Air Crusade makes its debut, syndicated by World Color Printing Co. Don Markstein's Toonopedia Major Ozone's Fresh Air Crusade http://www.toonopedia.com/ozone.htm January 3: The first issue of the Spanish illustrated children's magazine En Patufet is published. It will run until December 1938. Between 6 December 1968 and 29 June 1973 it will be revived. January 11: George Frink's Circus Solly makes its debut. It will run until 4 December 1911.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/frink_g.htm George Frink lambiek.net January 30: Albéric Bourgeois's Les Aventures de Timothée makes its debut. The first serialized Canadian comic strip in the French language.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bourgeois_a.htm Albéric Bourgeois lambiek.net February February 14: Little Jimmy by Jimmy Swinnerton makes his debut in the New York Journal.Don Markstein's Toonopedia Little Jimmy http://www.toonopedia.com/jimmy.htm dead https://archive.today/20240527144630/https://www.webcitation.org/6cwgrBRxa?url=http://www.toonopedia.com/jimmy.htm 2024-05-27 March March 5: Joseph Charlebois adapts Hector Berthelot's literary character Père Ladébauche into a comic strip for La Presse.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/charlebois_joseph.htm Joseph Charlebois lambiek.net April April 16: Julius Stafford Baker creates the comic strip Mrs. Hippo's Kindergarten for The Daily Mirror, which features Tiger Tim who will become a popular spin-off comic in The Monthly Playbox from November 1904 on. April 20: George McManus's The Newlyweds makes its debut. It will run under various titles until 1956.http://www.toonopedia.com/newlywed.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: The Newlyweds Donald D. Markstein www.toonopedia.com April 22: Gus Mager starts his ... the Monk comics series, which will run until 1913.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mager_g.htm Gus Mager lambiek.net May 15, 2020 April 23: René-Charles Béliveau's La Famille Citrouillard makes its debut in La Patrie. The comic will continue until February 1905, after which he leaves it to T. Bisson.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/beliveau_rene-charles.htm René-Charles Béliveau lambiek.net June June: The final episode of Clare Briggs's A. Piker Clerk is published. July July 24: Winsor McCay's Little Sammy Sneeze makes its debut in the New York Herald. Don Markstein's Toonopedia Little Sammy Sneeze http://www.toonopedia.com/sneeze.htm July 24: Frederick Burr Opper's And Her Name Was Maud makes its debut. It will run until 14 October 1932.http://www.toonopedia.com/maud.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: And Her Name Was Maud Donald D. Markstein www.toonopedia.com August August 28: Walt McDougall's Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz makes its debut, with L. Frank Baum as scriptwriter. It will run until 26 February 1905.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mcdougall_walt.htm Walt McDougall lambiek.net September September 10: Winsor McCay's Dream of the Rarebit Fiend makes its debut under the pseudonym Silas, in Evening Telegram. Don Markstein's Toonopedia Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend http://www.toonopedia.com/rarebit.htm October October 9: C. M. Payne's Bear Creek Folks debuts, which will run until 1912. December December 17: Kin Hubbard's Abe Martin of Brown County makes its debut. It will run until 1930. December 31: The final issue of the French satirical comics and cartoons magazine La Caricature is published. The Dutch illustrator Jan Feith draws a silhouette comic telling the history of the Netherlands, for the satirical weekly De Ware Jacob.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/feith_jan.htm Jan Feith lambiek.net 1905 January January 8: Winsor McCay's The Story of Hungry Henrietta makes its debut. The Story of Hungry Henrietta https://web.archive.org/web/20120511174359/http://www.barnaclepress.com/list.php?directory=HungryHenrietta 2012-05-11 , www.barnaclepress.com January 15: The final episode of Gustave Verbeek's The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo is published. In Rudolph Dirks' The Katzenjammer Kids, Der Inspektor makes his debut. February February 2: The first issue of the French girls' comics magazine La Semaine de Suzette is published. It will run until 25 August 1960. In its first issue Joseph Pinchon's text comic Bécassine makes its debut. Labé Yves-Marie Le Monde Bécassine débarque http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3208,36-683035@51-672256,0.html frRadio France 1905-2005 : Bécassine fête ses 100 ans http://www.radiofrance.fr/reportage/cahiers/cahiers.php?rid=235000264&aid=245000612 fr dead https://web.archive.org/web/20071022112900/http://www.radiofrance.fr/reportage/cahiers/cahiers.php?rid=235000264&aid=245000612 2007-10-22 February 26: The final episode of L. Frank Baum and Walt McDougall's Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz is published. May May 28: Gustave Verbeek's The Terror of the Tiny Tads makes its debut. It will run until 28 October 1914. June June 26: Winsor McCay's A Pilgrim’s Progress makes its debut. July July 22: A.D. Condo's The Outbursts of Everett True makes its debut. It will run until 1927.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/condo_ad.htm A. D. Condo lambiek.net July 23: The final episode of Ed Carey's Professor Hypnotiser is published. August August 13: The first episode of Gene Carr's The Bad Dream That Made Bill A Better Boy is published. But he passes it on to William Steinigans, who will continue the series until 1911.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/steinigans_william.htm William Steinigans lambiek.net October October 11: The first issue of the Brazilian comics magazine O Tico-Tico is published. It will run until 1977. October 15: Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland makes its debut in the New York Herald. It will run until 26 December 1926Don Markstein's Toonopedia Little Nemo in Slumberland http://www.toonopedia.com/nemo.htm dead https://archive.today/20240527145352/https://www.webcitation.org/6d5hw3tvW?url=http://www.toonopedia.com/nemo.htm 2024-05-27 November November 26: C. M. Payne launches Scary William, a comic strip continued by many different artists until 2 June 1918. Specific date unknown The first issue of the Chinese manhua magazine Journal of Current Pictorial is published and will run until 1913. 1906 January 14: After Richard F. Outcault has been bought away to another newspaper his comics series Buster Brown is continued in the old publication by Worden Wood. April 19: The first episode of Lyonel Feininger's Wee Willie Winkie's World is published. It will run until 17 February 1907.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/feininger_l.htm Lyonel Feininger lambiek.net April 29: The first episode of Lyonel Feininger's The Kin-der-Kids is published. It will run until 18 November. June 17: The final episode of Joseph A. Lemon's Willy Cute is published. August 26: Frank Crane's Val the Ventriloquist makes its debut. September 14: The first issue of the French satirical illustrated magazine La Calotte is published. October 21: C.W. Kahles's Hairbreadth Harry makes its debut. It will run until 1940.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kahles_cw.htm C. W. Kahles lambiek.net The Bulgarian cartoonist Slavov creates a comic strip named Gordelivata Maca (The Proud Pussycat), based on the eponymous poem.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/slavov.htm Slavov lambiek.net 1907 January 5: The first issue of the Dutch satirical magazine De Notenkraker is published.https://www.lambiek.net/aanvang/notenkraker.htm De Notenkraker www.lambiek.net February 17: The final episode of Lyonel Feininger's Wee Willie Winkie's World is published. May 13: Richard Thain's comic series Lord Longbow appears in print for the first time. It will run until 1915.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/thain_richard.htm Hugh Rankin lambiek.net May 26, 2021 September 29: Rube Goldberg's Mike and Ike (They Look Alike) makes its debut.http://toonopedia.com/mikenike.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Mike and Ike (They Look Alike) Donald D. Markstein toonopedia.com October: A.D. Condo's Mr. Skygack, from Mars makes its debut. It will run until 1917. November 15: Bud Fisher's Mutt and Jeff makes its debut. It will run until 26 June 1983. November 26: Nell Brinkley makes her debut as a cartoonist. She will become well known for her Brinkley Girl illustrations.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/brinkley_nell.htm Nell Brinkley lambiek.net Leon Searl's Mrs. Timekiller makes its debut. It will run until 1915.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/searl_la.htm Leon Searl lambiek.net Joseph Jacinto Mora creates Animaldom.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mora_joseph-j.htm Joseph Jacinto Mora lambiek.net Kate J. Fricero draws Les Distractions de Mll Nini in La Semaine de Suzette.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/fricero_kate.htm Kate J. Fricero lambiek.net 1908 May 3 to August 9: Harry Grant Dart's newspaper comic strip The Explorigator is first published.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dart_harry_grant.htm Harry Grant Dart lambiek.net June 4: Louis Forton's Les Pieds Nickelés makes its debut.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/forton_louis.htm Louis Forton lambiek.net August 12: The first episode of William Steinigans's Pups is published. It will run until 1911. August 23: Grif's It's Only Ethelinda makes its debut.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/grif.htm Grif lambiek.net May 15, 2020 August 30: The final episode of Frank Crane's Val the Ventriloquist is published. December 27: The first issue of the Italian comics magazine Corriere dei Piccoli is published. In its first issue Attilio Mussino's Bilbolbul makes its debut. The series will run until 1933. The magazine itself will run until 15 August 1995. Harold R. Heaton joins the Inter-Ocean newspaper as an editorial cartoonist. Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Folks is published. Bertie Brown publishes Homeless Hector in Illustrated Chips, where it will run until the magazine's final issue in 1953.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/brown-bertie.htm Bertie Brown lambiek.net Henri Avelot creates Philibert.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/avelot_henri.htm Henri Avelot lambiek.net May 15, 2020 In France, the comic strip Sam et Sap by Émile Tap, is the first known French comic to use speech balloons.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/tap_emile.htm Émile Tap lambiek.net November 30, 2022 1909 January 10: The final episode of Ed Carey's Simple Simon is published. February: Walt Kuhn's comic Whisk makes its debut and will run until October 1910.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kuhn_walt.htm Walt Kuhn lambiek.net October 21: André Vallet and Jo Valle's L'Espiègle Lili makes its debut. It will run until 1998.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/vallet_a.htm André Vallet lambiek.net November 1: John Hager's The Umbrella Man makes its debut in the Seattle Daily Times, appearing on the front page as a supplement for the weather.https://secure1.genealogybank.com/cgi-bin/user/cookerr.pl/GBNK Cookies not enabled? secure1.genealogybank.com May 15, 2020 Not titled as the Umbrella Man, but called under that name on May 3, 1913, under a section called "Features of Today's Paper". November 27: C. M. Payne's Mr. Hush (later retitled Honeybunch's Hubby) debuts. It will continue until 1911 but be briefly revived between 1931 and 1934. December 23: The first episode of George Herriman's Gooseberry Sprig is published. Although it barely lasts a few weeks, it does introduce the characters Gooseberry Sprig, Joe Stork and the setting Coconino County, which will later reappear in his more famous comic Krazy Kat.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/herriman.htm George Herriman lambiek.net July 18, 2022 December: Rose O'Neill's Kewpies comic strip is first published in Ladies' Home Journal. The characters will become very popular as toy articles in the following decades.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/o/oneill_rose.htm Rose O'Neill lambiek.net May 15, 2020 Daan Hoeksema publishes De Neef van Prikkebeen, a follow-up to Rodolphe Töpffer's De Neef van Prikkebeen.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hoeksema_daniel.htm Daniël Hoeksema lambiek.net Births 1900 1901 December December 5: Walt Disney, American animator, film producer, voice actor and businessman (Mr. George's Wife, Walt Disney's Comics & Stories), (d. 1966).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/disney.htm Walt Disney lambiek.net May 15, 2020 1902 1903 1904 October October 21: Edmond Hamilton, American science fiction and comic writer (Space Ranger, DC Comics), (d. 1977). 1905 February February 8: Cyril Gwyn Price, Welsh comics artist (PC Penny, Martha, Tricky Dicky), (d. 1970).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/price_cg.htm Cyril Gwyn Price lambiek.net 29 January 2019 February 17: Frans Piët, Dutch comics artist (Sjors en Sjimmie) (d. 1997)https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/piet.htm Frans Piët | Lambiek Comiclopedia June 27, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180627062424/https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/piet.htm June 27, 2018 dead December December 18: Ferd Johnson, American comics artist (Texas Slim, Lovey-Dovey, continued Moon Mullins), (d. 1996).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/johnson_f.htm Ferd Johnson lambiek.net May 21, 2020 1906 August August 21: Friz Freleng, American animator and cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Tweety and Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, The Pink Panther), (d. 1995).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/freleng_fritz.htm Friz Freleng lambiek.net 1907 March March 31: Ye Qianyu, Chinese comics artist (Mr. Wang), (d. 1995).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/q/qianyu_ye.htm Ye Qianyu lambiek.net 1908 1909 June June 18: Dave Gerard, American comics artist (Citizen Smith, Will-Yum), (d. 2003).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/gerard_dave.htm Dave Gerard lambiek.net May 15, 2020 October October 13: Herbert Block, American political cartoonist, (d. 2001).https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/block_herbert.htm Herbert Block lambiek.net 7 April 2018 October 26: Dante Quinterno, Argentine cartoonist and comics artist, (Patoruzú, Isidoro Cañones), (d. 2003). Deaths 1900 May 17: Eduard Ille, German illustrator (made occasional prototypical comics), dies at age 77.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/i/ille_eduard.htm Eduard Ille lambiek.net 1901 May 27: Fritz von Dardel, Swiss comics artist (Ett Frieri, Herrar Black & Smith på väg till Skandinavien, Familjen Tutings Lustresa till Bomarsund), dies at age 84.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/von-dardel_fritz.htm Fritz Von Dardel lambiek.net June 15: José Luis Pellicer, Spanish painter, illustrator and comics artist (made several picture stories), dies at age 59.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/pellicer_jl.htm José Luis Pellicer lambiek.net May 15, 2020 1902 June 10: Gus Dirks, American comics artist (Latest News From Bugville, assistant on The Katzenjammer Kids), commits suicide at age 23. August 7: Eugène Cottin, French painter, illustrator, engraver and comics artist, passes away at age 60.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/cottin_e.htm Eugène Cottin December 7: Thomas Nast, American cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 62 of yellow fever.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/n/nast_thomas.htm Thomas Nast lambiek.net 1904 March 8: Celso Hermínio, Portuguese caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 33 from pneumonia.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/herminio_celso.htm Celso Herminio lambiek.net February 27, 2021 December 1: A.L. Jansson, American comics artist (made text comics based on characters from playing cards), dies at age 48.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jansson_al.htm A.L. Jansson lambiek.net May 15, 2020 1905 January 23: Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Portuguese illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist (Zé Povinho), dies at age 58.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/pinheiro_r_b.htm Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro lambiek.net February 16: Dan McCarthy, American comics artist (Noah's Ark, The Streets of New York, continued Gay Gazoozaland and Lariat Pete), dies at age 44.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mccarthy_dan.htm Dan McCarthy lambiek.net September 28: Thomas Frank Beard, American illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 63.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/beard_frank.htm Frank Beard 1906 April 19: Jan Linse, Dutch painter, caricaturist and comics artist (made comics for the satirical magazines Humoristisch Album and Abraham's Prikkie's Op- en Aanmerkingen), dies at age 62.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/linse_jan.htm Jan Linse lambiek.net June 26: Victor Géruzez, A.K.A. Crafty, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 66.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/crafty.htm Crafty July 3: Gédéon Baril, French comic artist (drew prototypical comics), dies at age 73.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/baril_gedeon.htm Gédéon Baril November 28: Oskar Andersson, aka O.A., Swedish comics artist (Mannen Som Gör Vad Som Faller Honom In (The Man Who Does Whatever Comes To His Mind), Urhunden), commits suicide at the age of 29. 1907 August 25: Josef Benedikt Engl, German caricaturist, lithographer and illustrator (made occasional text comics), dies at age 40.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/e/engl_j-b.htm J. B. Engl lambiek.net 1908 January 9: Wilhelm Busch, German illustrator, poet, painter, graphic artist and comics artist (Max und Moritz), dies at age 75.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/busch.htm Wilhelm Busch lambiek.net January 19: Georgi Danchov, Bulgarian illustrator, caricaturist, painter and comics artist (The Six Feelings), passes away at age 61.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/danchov_georgi.htm Georgi Danchov lambiek.net September 4: Théophile Hyacinthe Busnel, French illustrator and comics artist (Farces du Petit Cousin Charlot, continued Les Aventures de Timothée), dies from TBC at age 25 or 26.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/busnel_theophile.htm Théophile Busnel lambiek.net September 17: Henri Julien, Canadian painter, caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist, passes away at age 56.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/julien_henri.htm Henri Julien lambiek.net September 22: F. M. Howarth, American comics artist (The Love of Lulu and Leander, Mr. E.Z. Mark, Ole Opey Dildock), dies at age 43 of pneumonia. Specific date unknown: Eduardo Sojo, Argentinian comic artist (Don Quijote), dies at age 58 or 59.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sojo_eduardo.htm Eduardo Sojo lambiek.net January 9, 2024 1909 February 25: Caran d'Ache, French caricaturist, cartoonist and comics artist, dies at age 50.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/carandache.htm Caran d'Ache lambiek.net May 11: Ferdinand von Řezníček, Austrian painter, illustrator and caricaturist (made some pantomime comics), dies at age 40.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/v/von-reznicek_ferdinand.htm Ferdinand von Řezníček lambiek.net September 20: Achille Lemot, aka Uzès and Lilio, French illustrator (made occasional text comics), dies at age 62.https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lemot_a.htm Achille Lemot lambiek.net References