Portal:Comics/Anniversaries/October/October 27

• 1930: birth of Leo Baxendale, British comics creator best known for The Bash Street Kids
• 1935: birth of Mauricio de Sousa, Brazilian comic strip creator best known for Monica's Gang
• 1948: birth of Bernie Wrightson, American comic book artist best known as creator of Swamp Thing
• 1954: birth of Jan Duursema, comics artist best known for her work on Star Wars comics
• 1990: last issue of Whizzer and Chips, British comic which ran since 1969
• 2012: death of Bill White, American animator, and a comic book writer, penciller, and inker