Portal:Comics/Anniversaries/May/May 4
- 1902: first appearance of Buster Brown, popular American comic strip by Richard F. Outcault
- 1913: birth of John Broome (writer), (aka John Osgood and Edgar Ray Meritt) American comic book writer for DC Comics
- 1928: birth of Nestor Redondo, Filipino comics artist, known for co-creating the superheroine Darna
- 1937: birth of Joseph Loeckx, Belgian comics artist better known as Jo-El Azara, known for Taka Takata and Clifton
- 1940: birth of John Ridgway, British comics artist known for his work with 2000 AD, Guttenberghus, Marvel and DC
- 1953: birth of Doug Cushman, American artist who has worked as a cartoonist and a book illustrator
- 1959: birth of Henriette Valium, Canadian underground comix creator
- 1966: birth of Tom Richmond, American humorous illustrator, cartoonist and caricaturist known for his work with Mad
- 1977: birth of Ale Garza, American comic book artist known for working on Gen¹³
- 1985: debut of Ivy the Terrible, British comic strip created by Robert Nixon in The Beano
- 1997: death of Lou Stathis, American comics writer and editor with Vertigo
- 1998: launch of PvP, popular webcomic by Scott Kurtz
- 2002: first Free Comic Book Day is held
- 2005: death of Don Trachte, American comics artist best known for the Sunday pages of Henry