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January 2020
January 1, 2020: |
* Eduard Aidans (Tounga) is born (1931)
* The last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip (by Bill Waterson) is published (1996)
| January 2, 2020: |
* The musical Annie, based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, ends it Broadway run after 2.377 performances (THANK GOD !) (1983)
| January 3, 2020: |
* André Franquin (Gaston/Guust Flater, Spirou/Robbedoes, Marsupilami) is born (1924)
* Wil Eisner (considered the Father of graphic novels) dies (2005)
| January 4, 2020: |
* Sterling Holloway (actor, voice of Winnie the Pooh) is born (1905)
* R.D.E. ('Ootje') Oxenaar's design for the Dutch 10 guilder bill (a personal favourite) starts circulation (1971)
* Sesamstraat, the Dutch version of Sesame Street, airs for the first time (1976)
| January 5, 2020: |
* Monkei (Monkey Business) is born (year unknown)
* The Yellow Kid (by Richard Felton Outcault), credited the world's first comic strip, is published (1896)
* André Franquin (Gaston/Guust Flater, Spirou/Robbedoes, Marsupilami) dies - a very sad day in the European comics world (1997)
| January 6, 2020: |
* The first sunday appearance of Charles Schultz' Peanuts (1952)
* Peter de Smet (De Generaal, Viva Zapata) dies (2003)
| January 7, 2020: |
* Charles Addams (creator of The Addams Family) is born (1912)
| January 8, 2020: |
* Victor Hubinon (Buck Danny) dies (1979)
| January 9, 2020: |
* Murat Young (Blondie) is born (1901)
| January 10, 2020: |
* A young Belgian reporter named Kuifje (aka Tintin) gets on the train to the Sovjet Union, thus starting off his legendary adventures as drawn by Hergé (1929)
* Fraggle Rock appears on television for the first time (1983)
* René van Densen and his roommate adopt a cat called Satan, who soon gets his own comic strip on Probeersel.com (2002)
| January 11, 2020: |
* Sam Kieth (The Maxx) is born (1963)
| January 12, 2020: |
* Aliens landed and conquered Earth ! Um, no wait, that never happened.
| January 13, 2020: |
* Joseph Gillain (aka Jijé; Jan Kordaat) is born (1914)
* Michael Bond (Paddington Bear) is born (1926)
| January 14, 2020: |
* Richard Felton Outcault (father of comics, creator of The Yellow Kid) is born (1863)
* Robby van der Meulen (Iwan, Paul Flekx) is born (1983)
* Matt Groening's The Simpsons premiers (1990)
* Jaap Vegter (Dutch cartoonist veteran) dies (2003)
| January 15, 2020: |
* Cartoonist Thomas Nast originates the donky as a symbol to identify the Democratic party in a political cartoon appearing in Harper's Weekly (1870)
* Fred Julsing (Wellington Wish, Witte's Dagboek, Ukkie,Tuimel en Ich) dies (2005)
| January 16, 2020: |
* Marcel Remacle (aka Ted Smedley; Hultrasson, Ouwe Niek) is born (1926)
* Superman appears in newspapers for the first time (1939)
| January 17, 2020: |
* Popeye the Sailor appears in the strip Thimble Theatre for the first time (1929)
* François Walthéry (Natasha) is born (1946)
* The first strip of Tatsuya Ishida's Sinfest appears online (2000)
* The first strip of One Year In Satan's Purrrgatory is made (2002)
* Troy Titane's strip The S[w]ingin' Titties premiers on Probeersel.com (2005)
| January 18, 2020: |
* A.A.Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh, is born (1882)
| January 19, 2020: |
* John Stuart Reid (one of the creators of Fokke & Sukke) is born (1968)
* Dutch current events program NOVA premiers the TV-version of newspaper political cartoons tonight - an idea stolen from a 'Sigmund' animation pilot Peter de Wit and ComicHouse initially developed for them (2004)
| January 20, 2020: |
* James Burks (Martin's Misdirection) is born (year unknown)
* Pieter Kuhn (Kapitein Rob) dies (1966)
* The final Bommel (by Marten Toonder) episode (of 154 stories !) is published (1986)
* Claude Auclair (Simon of the River) dies (1990)
* Al Hirschfeld (caricaturist veteran, his work made his name synonymous with American theatre) dies (2003)
| January 21, 2020: |
* Jan Wesseling (Athi) is born (1925)
* Oni Double Feature #1 is released (1998)
| January 22, 2020: |
* Gene Ahem's Major Hoople appears in Our Boarding House for the first time (1922)
* Bill Mauldin (one of the 20th century's preeminent editorial cartoonists, won two Pulitzer Prizes) dies (2003)
| January 23, 2020: |
* George McManus (Bringing Up Father) is born (1884)
| January 24, 2020: |
* The live-action version of The Tick ends after three months with today's final episode (THANK GOD) (2002)
| January 25, 2020: |
* Kees Kousemaker (one of Holland's most renowned comics experts, founder of historic Amsterdam comic store Lambiek, knighted for his contributions to the Dutch comic world, and much, much more) is born (1942)
* Patty Klein (writer of many European comics, including Noortje) is born (1946)
* The Honolulu Herald printed an obituary for Mel Blanc. But they were wrong: the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Barney Rubble, etc. etc. etc. hadn't gone silent yet (1961)
* Inge Heremans (aka Ilah aka Cordelia; Belgian comic artist) is born (1971)
* Steve Jobs introduced the world to the Macintosh and changed the course of computer and animation history. The Mac brought us the first computer "for the rest of us" and started the boom of computer use by the masses. And two years later, with money earned at Apple Computer, Jobs would buy the computer graphics division of Lucasfilms, and rename it Pixar. (1984)
* Flip Fermin (Robur en Pennekamp) dies (1994)
* Dilbert, the TV Series, premiers on UPN (1999)
* Animated series Mr. Bean premiers (2002)
| January 26, 2020: |
* Charles Schultz is given posthumous Lifetime Archievement Award by National Cartoonists Society (2000)
| January 27, 2020: |
* Peter Laird (co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) is born (1954)
* Piet Kroon (Osmosis Jones) is born (1960)
| January 28, 2020: |
* Ernie's (Bert & Ernie) birthday (year unknown)
* Daniel Henrotin (aka Dany; Olivier Rameau/Roze Bottel) is born (1943)
* Jon Hancock (Earth Harvest) is born (1974)
| January 29, 2020: |
* Rube Goldberg's Doc Wright appears for the first time (1933)
| January 30, 2020: |
* Guy Gilchrist (drew the syndicated comic strip of The Muppets) is born (1957)
* The 100th episode of Gregory Cathalina's God.inc appears online (2003)
| January 31, 2020: |
* André Franquin publishes the first comic featuring the Marsupilami (1952)
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