July 17: The final episode of Grif's It's Only Ethelinda is published. [4]
July 26: In the panel edge of The Dingbat Family by George Herriman, a cat and a mouse make their debut. The characters will later evolve into Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse .[5][6]
C. M. Payne's Those Kids Next Door debuts, which will change its title to Nippy's Pop in 1911, until finally becoming S'Matter, Pop?. It will continue until 1940. [12]
1911
January: The first issue of the Flemish children's comics magazine Kindervriend is published. It will run until 1940.[13]
January 1: Ed Payne's Professor O. Howe Wise and Professor I.B. Schmart comes to an end, after having run since 1902. [14]
April 16: William Steinigans publishes the final episode of The Bad Dream That Made Bill A Better Boy and Pups.[15]
April 23: The first episode of William Steinigans' Splinters is published. It will run until 1912. [15]
October 18: The first issue of the Flemish children's comics magazine Het Mannekensblad is published. It will appear until 1914.[16]
October 31: The first episode of Officer Crust by Robert E. Brook is published. The series will run until Brook's death in 1918. [17]
December 4: The final episode of George Frink's Circus Solly is published.[7]
The first issue of the Flemish children's comics magazine De Geïllustreerde Kinderwereld is published.[13]
Dutch cartoonist Leendert Jordaan publishes the pantomime comicHet Leven in Karikatuur in the magazine Het Leven. The series will appear until 1936.[18]
Hungarian cartoonist Bit (aka Nándor Honti) creates the pantomime comics series Séta Álomországban. One particular episode, A Francia Bonne Álma (A French Nanny's Dream), attracts the interest of psychologists Sándor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud. [19]
April 22: Chic Jackson's Roger Bean makes its debut. It will run until the artist's death in 1934. [32]
July 6: The final episode of Red Shellcope's Jimmie the Messenger Boy is published. [33]
July 19: Zif Dunstan's The Adventures of William Mug is published. It will run until 26 September 1914 as one of the earliest Australian comic strips. [34]
August 10 - December 7: Charles Forbell's Naughty Pete is published.[35]
October 28: George Herriman's Krazy Kat makes its debut. It will receive a Sunday page from 23 April 1916 on.[6]
April: The final issue of the Dutch illustrated satirical weekly De Ware Jacob is published.[57]
June 24: Felix Hess creates the comic strip Uit het Kladschrift van Jantje, which will run until 1936. [58]
September 9: The final issue of the British comics magazine Ally Sloper's Half Holiday is published. Between 1922 and 1923, 1948 and 1949 and 1976 and 1977 it will be briefly revived.
November 24: Frank King's Gasoline Alley makes its debut. It will become one of the longest-running comics series of all time. [64] Walt Wallet makes his debut on 15 December. [64]
Dutch illustrator David Bueno de Mesquita creates Billie Ritchie en Zijn Ezel, the first Dutch celebrity comic, in this case about film comedian Billie Ritchie.[10]
In Russia the news agency ROSTA is established, which will produce various propaganda pamphlets, among them posters and comics.
October 16: Henri Vernes, Belgian novelist and comics writer (wrote the scripts to comic book adaptations of his own novel series Bob Morane), (d. 2021).[74]
September 4: Pál Pusztai, Hungarian graphic artist and illustrator (Jucika, Iván és Joe), (d. 1970).[75]
Deaths
1910
January 23: Angelo Agostini, Brazilian journalist, illustrator and comics artist (As Aventuras de Nhô Quim), dies at the age of 66.[76]
March 16: Tom Browne, British comics artist and illustrator (Weary Willy and Tired Tim), dies at age 49.[77]
March 23: Félix Nadar, French photographer, cartoonist, comics artist and caricaturist (Les Aventures Illustrées du Prince pour rire, Vie politique et littéraire de Viperin, journaliste et industriel, Vie publique et privée de Mossieu Réac), dies at age 89.[78]
1911
September 30: Franciszek Kostrzewski, Polish comics artist, illustrator, caricaturist, painter and cartoonist (Jedynaczek's Story in 32 Pictures), dies at age 85. [79]
October 29: Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American newspaper publisher, launcher of the Sunday comics and major force behind the rise of the comics industry, dies at age 64. [80]
Specific date unknown: Walter H. Gallaway, American illustrator and comics artist (Citizen Fixit, Absent-Minded Augie), dies at age 40.[81]
1912
May 2: Homer Calvin Davenport, American cartoonist and comics artist (A Venetian Episode - How The Doves Did Davenport), dies at age 45.[82]
1913
March 18: Henry Stull, Canadian-American comics artist, dies at age 61. [83]
July 19: Walther Caspari, German illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist, dies at age 43.[84]
March 4: Oswald Heidbrinck, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 53. [86]
May 3: Carsten Ravn, Danish illustrator, actor and comics artist, dies at age 53. [87]
July 21: René-Charles Béliveau, Canadian illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist (La Famille Citrouillard, Le Père Nicodème), dies at age 42 from TBC.[88]
October 21: R.W. Taylor, American comics artist (Yens Yensen), dies at age 36. [89]
December 9: Timoléon Lobricon, French painter and comics artist (Histoire de Mr. Tuberculus, Histoire de Mr. Grenouillet), dies at age 83. [90]
December 28: Faustin Betbeder, French caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 77. [91]
Specific date unknown:
Nollat, aka Louis Tallon, Jacques Talon, French caricaturist and comics artist (worked for Le Rire), dies at age 28 or 29. [92]
November 27: Fernand Fau, French comics artist, caricaturist and illustrator, dies at age 57. [97]
November 28: Georges Jordic-Pignon, French illustrator, painter and comics artist, dies in battle at age 39. [98]
December 28: Kobayashi Kiyochika, Japanese caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist (made sequential illustrations), dies at age 68. [99]
1916
August 21: Auguste Vimar, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 64. [100]
December 7: Art Bowen, American painter and comics artist (The Spotty Twins, Spotlight Steve in Vaudeville), commits suicide at age 35. [101]
1917
April 7: Ko Doncker, Dutch comics artist and illustrator (Piet Pelle), dies at age 43.[24]
October 26: Frank Crane, American comics artist (Willie Westinghouse Edison Smith the Boy Inventor, Muggsy, Val the Ventriloquist, continued Professor Bughouse), dies at age 60. [45]
Specific date unknown:
Paul Balluriau, French comics artist and illustrator, dies at age 56 or 56. [102]
Oliver E. Veal, British comics artist (Aunt Tozer), dies at age 56 or 57. [103]
1918
January 25: William Steinigans, American comics artist (Pups, Splinters, Mr. Hubby, continued The Bad Dream That Made Bill A Better Boy), dies at age 39. [15]
January 27: José María Cao, Spanish-Argentine illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 55. [104]
February 12: Alphonse Lévy, French illustrator, painter and comics artist, dies at age 75. [105]
February 28: Robert Carter, American comics artist (Just Little Ones, Coffee and Sinkers), dies at age 44. [106]
August 3: Albert Hahn Sr., Dutch illustrator, cartoonist and comics artist, dies at age 41.[107]
September 10: Robert Brook, American comics artist (Officer Crust), dies at age 33. [108]
October 17: Hermann Vogel, German-French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 62. [109]
December 23: Hans Horina, German comics artist (The Rhinoceros Boys), dies at age 63. [110]
1919
January 17: Henri Stein, Argentine editorial cartoonist and comic artist, dies at age 75. [111]
January 22: Carl Larsson, Swedish illustrator, painter and cartoonist, dies at age 65.[112]
January 28: Leon Searl, American comics artist and animator (Mrs. Timekiller), dies at age 38.[56]
December 9: Eugen von Baumgarten, German caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 54. [113]
