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1912: birth of Alfred Andriola , American comic strip creator best known for Kerry Drake
1919: birth of Sid Couchey , American comics artist known for his work on Richie Rich
1919: birth of Irwin Caplan , American illustrator, painter, designer, and cartoonist, best known as the creator of The Saturday Evening Post Famous Last Words
1924: birth of Brad Anderson , American comic strip author best known for Marmaduke
1925: birth of Carmine Infantino , American comic book artist, one of the main contributors to the Silver Age of Comic Books
1936: birth of Kiko , Egyptian -Belgian comics creator best known for Foufi
1957: birth of Walter Moers , German comics author best known for Das kleine Arschloch
1959: last appearance of Johnny Reb and Billy Yank Frank Giacoia
1962: death of Victor Forsythe , American artist, illustrator of many different comics, including Joe Jinks
1966: birth of Evan Skolnick , American writer, editor and producer who worked as assistant editor at Marvel Comics
1967: birth of Everette Hartsoe , American writer and producer known for goth comics and creator of Razor
1992: debut of X Japanese manga created by CLAMP
1997: first appearance of Tim Traveller British comic strip created by Vic Neill in The Beano
2017: death of Pierre Seron , Belgian comic book artist , longtime Spirou contributor
