Portal:Comics/Anniversaries/December/December 19

• 1918: debut of Ripley's Believe It or Not!, American cartoon by Robert Ripley
• 1919: debut of Thimble Theatre, an American comic strip by E. C. Segar that later debuted Popeye
• 1952: birth of Peter B. Gillis, American comic book writer
• 1953: first appearance of Minnie the Minx, ongoing British comic strip created by Leo Baxendale in The Beano
• 1954: birth of Eliot R. Brown, American comic book writer and artist
• 1970: birth of Saida Temofonte, American comic book letterer and artist
• 2001: death of Dan DeCarlo, American comic book artist, creator of Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• 2006: death of Jack Burnley, American comic book artist who succeeded Joe Shuster on Superman