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July 2018
July 1, 2018: |
* This month, the first Bone comic book is published (1991)
* Jay & Silent Bob #1 is published (1998)
* Reinder Dijkhuis' now legendary webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan premiers online (2000)
* René van Densen's Chalk was finished and published online (2001)
| July 2, 2018: |
* Eppo Doeve (Dutch graphic artist, cartoonist (Mannetje Bagatel), painter, one of the designers of Dutch currency) is born (1907)
* Gerard Wiegel (Kimo en Kaja) is born (1922)
| July 3, 2018: |
* Joey Manley (founder of ModernTales.com) is born (1965)
* René van Densen starts working on a comic he calls 'Probeersel' (1997)
* Willem Mooy van Wieringen (Simpelman, Joris) dies (1999)
| July 4, 2018: |
* Rube Goldberg, first president of the National Cartoonists' Society, and the man the Rueben Award is named after, is born (1883)
* Peter de Smet (De Generaal, Viva Zapata) is born (1944)
| July 5, 2018: |
* Bill Waterson (Calvin and Hobbes) is born (1958)
| July 6, 2018: |
* Jean-Marc van Tol (one of the creators of Fokke & Sukke) is born (1967)
| July 7, 2018: |
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of the Sherlock Holmes stories) dies (1859)
* Dick Bruynesteyn (Appie Happie) is born (1927)
* Will Eisner teams up with Gary Chaloner to bring the audience new adventures of John Law (a retired character since 1948), this time on the web, at ModernTales.com (2002)
| July 8, 2018: |
* Irwin Hasen (DC Comics, Dondi) is born (1918)
| July 9, 2018: |
* Morton Leav (the Heap) is born (1916)
* Ward Kimball (one of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men) dies (2002)
| July 10, 2018: |
* Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) dies (1989)
* Cool World premiers (1992)
| July 11, 2018: |
* Daniel Barry (Flash Gordon) is born (1923)
* Gideon Brugman (Commando Moustache, De lotgevallen van de Stroemf, Alfie & KO, Zonk en Stronk, griezoloog Professor Ambrosius, de avonturen van Patty) is born (1942)
| July 12, 2018: |
* The Etch-A-Sketch children's toy is sold for the first time (1960)
* Popular newspaper comic strip Kappie, by Piet Wijn (art) and Eiso (son of) Toonder (text) stopped appearing in newspapers after 27 years (1972)
* René van Densen's cat Satan brings home a dead mouse for the first time (2002)
| July 13, 2018: |
* Mike Ploog (Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, Werewolf By Night) is born (1940)
| July 14, 2018: |
* William Hanna (Hanna-Barbera Productions) is born (1910)
| July 15, 2018: |
* Cow & Chicken premiers with 'No Smoking' and as a co-show, I.M. Weasel premiers with 'I R On Sun' (1997)
| July 16, 2018: |
* Maurice de Bevere, aka Morris (Lucky Luke) dies (2001)
* Queen Elizabeth II has dubbed Sir Timothy Berners-Lee (the 'Father Of The Web', who created HTML) a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) during an Investiture at Buckingham Palace in London (2004)
| July 17, 2018: |
* Walt Disney opens his Disneyland theme park to the public (1955)
* Cliff Edwards (voice of Jiminy Cricket in Disney's Pinoccio) dies (1971)
| July 18, 2018: |
* Jan van der Voo (Ketelbinkie, Pipo de Clown, Piraatje) is born (1938)
* Berni Wrightson (Swamp Thing) is born (1948)
| July 19, 2018: |
* Bert Bus (Olaf Noord, Skokan, Theban, De brug van het Oerwoud, De Gouden Kraag en De Slavenkoopman van Pompei, Cliff Rendall, Huckleberry Finn, Stef Ardoba, Archie de Man van Staal, Nancy Drew, Jola, Woep en Wap, Mallorix) is born (1932)
* Bob Burden (Flaming Carrot) is born (1952)
* Minck Oosterveer (Jack Pott, Zodiak, Rick Rolluik, Nicky Saxx) is born (1961)
* Kathleen Verhetsel (Kleintje) is born (1985)
| July 20, 2018: |
* Dick Giordano (DC Comics artist) is born (1932)
* Alfred Mazure's comic "Dick Bos" debuts in Weekrevue De Prins
(1940)
* Benjamin Kikkert (former Probeersel.com member) is born (1976)
| July 21, 2018: |
* Jaap Vegter (Dutch cartoonist veteran) is born (1934)
* Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury) is born (1948)
* Drew Weing's online "Journal Comic" ends (2003)
| July 22, 2018: |
* Rube Goldberg's political cartoon in the New York Sun, about the world on the brink of nuclear destruction, published today, won him a Pulitzer Prize the next year (1947)
| July 23, 2018: |
* Metin Seven (Belgian comic artist/illustrator/3D designer) is born (1971)
* Inspector Gadget (the live action movie) premiers (1999)
| July 24, 2018: |
* Popeye eats spinach to increase his strength, for the first time (1931)
| July 25, 2018: |
* Ray Billingsley (Curtis) is born (1957)
* Sionnain Comeaux joins Probeersel.com (2003)
| July 26, 2018: |
* Gene Byrnes (Reg'ler Fellers) dies (1974)
* Famous Turkish cartoonist Oguz Aral ("Girgir" and "Avni" humor magazines, Avanak Avni) dies (2004)
| July 27, 2018: |
* Fan Bernie Bubnis put together a Monday-afternoon event in New York City that is usually acknowledged as the first comics convention (1964)
* Marten Toonder (Tom Poes) dies (2005)
| July 28, 2018: |
* Beatrix Potter is born (1866)
* Jim Davis (Garfield) is born (1945)
* Cecile 'Saiso' Bol (Saiso Secret Service) is born (1982)
| July 29, 2018: |
* The Mask premiers (1994)
| July 30, 2018: |
* Roy Crane's Captain Easy appears for the first time (1933)
* Comicbase.nl is founded (2001)
| July 31, 2018: |
* The movie Spawn premiers (1997)
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