January 7: Kho Wang Gie's comic strip Put On makes its debut and will continue for 30 years.[1]
January 19: The first episode of the Mickey Mouse story Mickey Mouse Vs. Kat Nipp by Floyd Gottfredson is published. Kat Nipp, already Mickey’s antagonist in some animated shorts, makes his comics debut in this story.
October 16: In the first narrative of Dick Tracy the father of Tess Trueheart is murdered, which is the first instance of a cold-blooded murder appearing uncensored in a comic strip.[8]
November
November 27: The final issue of the Spanish comics magazine Pinocho is published.[9]
December
December 26: The first episode of the biblical text comicIllustrated Sunday School Lesson is published. It will run until 26 February 1973.[10]
Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson's Screen Oddities, a daily comic about the lives of Hollywood stars, is first published.[19]
Births
April
April 10: Gérald Forton, Belgian-American comic artist (Kim Devil, continued Bob Morane, He-Man, Masters of the Universe newspaper comic), (d. 2021).[20]
August
August 12: Luis Bermejo, Spanish comics artist and illustrator (Apache, continued Heros the Spartan and Johnny Future), (d. 2015).[21]
September
September 17: Jean-Claude Carrière, French novelist, actor, screenwriter and comics writer (wrote comics for Bernard Yslaire and Pierre Étaix [22]), (d. 2021).[23][24]
October 2: Enzo Facciolo, Italian animator and comics artist (Clint Due Colpi, worked on Diabolik), (d. 2021).[25]
Specific date unknown
Zoe Skiadaresi, Greek comics artist (Bampoudas), (d. 2014).[26]
Deaths
January
January 21: C. W. Kahles, German-American comics artist (Hairbreadth Harry), dies at age 63 from a heart attack.[2]
May
May 7: Louis De Leeuw, Dutch illustrator, painter, cartoonist, lithographer and comic artist, dies at age 55.[27]
May 19: Ralph Barton, American caricaturist, cartoonist and comics artist (worked for The New Yorker), commits suicide at age 39. [28]
May 28: Guydo, French comics artist, illustrator and novelist, dies at age 62.[29]
June
June 6: Herbert Bird Tourtel, British journalist, poet and comics writer (Rupert Bear), husband of Mary Tourtel, dies at age 57.[30]
July
July 11: Jean-Louis Forain, aka Louis-Henri Forain, French illustrator, painter and comics artist, dies at age 78.[31]
August
August 25: Marcel Arnac, French novelist, illustrator, comics writer and artist (Les Désopilantes Aventures de Trouillet Détective and other one-shot comics), dies at age 44 in an accident.[32]
September
September 15: Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville, aka Job, French illustrator, caricaturist and painter, dies at age 72.[33]
^Shapiro, Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research Fred R.; Shapiro, Fred R. (12 August 2018). The Yale Book of Quotations. Yale University Press. ISBN978-0300107982 – via Google Books.
