1931 in comics
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Notable events of 1931 in comics.
Events and publications
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Year overall
January
- January 7: Kho Wang Gie's comic strip Put On makes its debut and will continue for 30 years.[1]
- January 19: The first episode of the Kat Nipp, already Mickey’s antagonist in some animated shorts, makes his comics debut in this story.
- January 21: After the death of
February
- February 26: The first episode of the Gideon Goat.
- February 28: The final gag of Harold C. Earnshaw's newspaper comic strip The Pater is published.[4]
March
- March 23: The first episode of Roland J. Scott's long-running newspaper comic Scott's Scrapbook is published, which will continue up until 1967.[5]
April
- April 17: In
May
- May 3: In Thimble Theatre a prototypical version of J. Wellington Wimpy makes his debut.[7]
June
- June 26: In 's power.
July
- July 8: In a Mickey Mouse comic by Floyd Gottfredson’s, a stray dog eats Mickey Mouse’s ice-cream. This is the first time Pluto makes his debut.
September
- September 2: In Le petit Vingtième, first chapter of Tintin in America, by Hergè.
October
- October 4: Chester Gould's Dick Tracy makes his debut. It naturally marks the debut of the protagonist, Dick Tracy.[8]
- October 11: In Dick Tracy the villain Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice makes his debut.
- October 12: In Dick Tracy his girlfriend Tess Trueheart makes her debut.[8]
- October 16: In the first narrative of Dick Tracy the father of Tess Trueheart is murdered, which is the first instance of a cold-blooded murder appearing uncensored in a comic strip.[8]
November
- November 27: The final issue of the Spanish comics magazine Pinocho is published.[9]
December
- December 26: The first episode of the biblical text comic Illustrated Sunday School Lesson is published. It will run until 26 February 1973.[10]
Specific date unknown
- Edwina Dumm's Alec the Great makes its debut and will run until 1969.[11]
- Suihō Tagawa's Norakuro makes its debut.
- The final episode of Doings of the Duffs is published. The last artist to draw it is Buford Tune.[12]
- Jean Bruller publishes his comic strip Le Mariage de Monsieur Lakonik.[13]
- Henri Bruneau publishes Zbib et Barnabé.[14]
- William Ferguson publishes This Curious World (1931-1952).[15]
- Louis Diamond publishes Mick.[16]
- Hergé publishes Fred & Mille in Mon Avenir, which will be continued by François Gianolla a year later.[17]
- Guglielmo Guastaveglia creates early Italian versions of Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat.[18]
- Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson's Screen Oddities, a daily comic about the lives of Hollywood stars, is first published.[19]
Births
April
- April 10: Gérald Forton, Belgian-American comic artist (Kim Devil, continued Bob Morane, He-Man, Masters of the Universe newspaper comic), (d. 2021).[20]
August
- August 12: Luis Bermejo, Spanish comics artist and illustrator (Apache, continued Heros the Spartan and Johnny Future), (d. 2015).[21]
September
- September 17: Jean-Claude Carrière, French novelist, actor, screenwriter and comics writer (wrote comics for Bernard Yslaire and Pierre Étaix [22]), (d. 2021).[23][24]
- September 22: E. Nelson Bridwell, American comic book writer (DC Comics, Mad), (d. 1987).
October
- October 2: Enzo Facciolo, Italian animator and comics artist (Clint Due Colpi, worked on Diabolik), (d. 2021).[25]
Specific date unknown
Deaths
January
- January 21: C. W. Kahles, German-American comics artist (Hairbreadth Harry), dies at age 63 from a heart attack.[2]
May
- May 7: Louis De Leeuw, Dutch illustrator, painter, cartoonist, lithographer and comic artist, dies at age 55.[27]
- May 19: Ralph Barton, American caricaturist, cartoonist and comics artist (worked for The New Yorker), commits suicide at age 39. [28]
- May 28: Guydo, French comics artist, illustrator and novelist, dies at age 62.[29]
June
- June 6: Herbert Bird Tourtel, British journalist, poet and comics writer (Rupert Bear), husband of Mary Tourtel, dies at age 57.[30]
July
- July 11: Jean-Louis Forain, aka Louis-Henri Forain, French illustrator, painter and comics artist, dies at age 78.[31]
August
- August 25: Marcel Arnac, French novelist, illustrator, comics writer and artist (Les Désopilantes Aventures de Trouillet Détective and other one-shot comics), dies at age 44 in an accident.[32]
September
- September 15: Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville, aka Job, French illustrator, caricaturist and painter, dies at age 72.[33]
References
- ^ "Kho Wang Gie". lambiek.net.
- ^ a b "C. W. Kahles". lambiek.net.
- ^ "F. O. Alexander". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Harold C. Earnshaw". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Roland J. Scott". lambiek.net. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ISBN 978-0300107982– via Google Books.
- ^ "Elzie Crisler Segar". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Chester Gould". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Salvador Bartolozzi". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ^ "Alfred J. Buescher". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Edwina Dumm's biography,", Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (Ohio State University). Accessed Dec. 4, 2017.
- ^ "Buford Tune". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Jean Bruller". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Henri Bruneau". lambiek.net.
- ^ "William Ferguson". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Louis Diamond". lambiek.net.
- ^ "François Gianolla". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Guglielmo Guastaveglia". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Bud Thompson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
- ^ "Don Asmussen". Lambiek.net. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
- ^ "Luis Bermejo". lambiek.net. Retrieved April 7, 2018.
- ^ MAGNERON, Philippe. "Carrière, Jean-Claude - Bibliographie, BD, photo, biographie". bedetheque.com.
- ^ Saperstein, Pat (February 8, 2021). "Jean-Claude Carriere, 'Unbearable Lightness of Being' Screenwriter, Dies at 89". Variety. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
- ^ "Jean-Claude Carrière, scénariste et écrivain, est mort à l'âge de 89 ans", Le Monde, February 9, 2021.
- ^ "Enzo Facciolo". Lambiek.net. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
- ^ "Zoe Skiadaresi". lambiek.net. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
- ^ "Louis de Leeuw". Lambiek.net. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
- ^ "Ralph Barton". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Guydo". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Herbert Bird Tourtel".
- ^ "Jean-Louis Forain". lambiek.net. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
- ^ "Marcel Arnac". lambiek.net.
- ^ "Job". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.