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- 1940: debut of Brenda Starr, Reporter, an American comic strip by Dale Messick which still appears
- 1958: birth of Shawn McManus, American comic book artist best known for his work on The Sandman
- 1961: birth of Christopher Priest, (AKA James C. Owsley) American writer of comic books and first black writer-editor in mainstream comics
- 1966: birth of Steve Firchow, New Guinea-born comic book artist
- 1970: birth of Tony Lee, British comic book writer known for his graphic novels
- 1982: death of Abner Dean, American cartoonist
- 1984: last issue of Scream!, British comic which ran for only three months
- 1990: death of Jacques Lob, French comics author, best known for writing Blanche Épiphanie and Superdupont
- 2002: death of Jaime Brocal Remohí, Spanish comic book artist known for his work at Warren Publishing
- 2003: launch of Badmash.org, American webcomic by Sandeep Sood, Nimesh Patel and Sanjay Shah
