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September 2023
September 1, 2023: |
* Kevin & Kell debuts online (1995)
* The first Zits book gets published (1998)
| September 2, 2023: |
* Marge Champion (dancer/actress/model for Disney's Snow White) is born (1923)
* Gerrit de Jager (Roel en zijn Beestenboel, Familie Doorzon, Zusje and dozens of other comics) is born (1954)
| September 3, 2023: |
* Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois) is born (1923)
| September 4, 2023: |
* Paul Smith (X-Men, The Golden Age) is born (1954)
| September 5, 2023: |
* Comics & Comix was founded in Berkeley (1972)
* FOX airs the last episode of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992)
* Canvas (Belgian network channel) begins airing the full series of God, The Devil And Bob (2002)
* Wouter Goudswaard joins Probeersel.com (2005)
| September 6, 2023: |
* The Pink Panther cartoon premiers on NBC (1969)
* Bandirah's comic De Kreup Vallende Histie switches its update tempo from tridaily to bidaily (2004)
| September 7, 2023: |
* The Non Bibla Sacra project site is built by Web Solution Partner (2001)
* Ivo van Leeuwen (Arthur Riemslag; one of the four founders of De Bedenkelijk Kijkende Grondeekhoorn) gets married (2002)
| September 8, 2023: |
* Austin Briggs (Flash Gordon assistant) is born (1908)
* Alfred Mazure (aka Maz; Dick Bosch, Romeo Brown, Sam Stone, Lindy Leigh) is born (1914)
* Frits Godthelp (Bas en van der Pluim, Hiawatha) is born (1927)
| September 9, 2023: |
* The first computer bug is found: in relay 70, panel F of a Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator - and it's a moth (1945)
* Pinky And The Brain premiers (1995)
* Earthworm Jim premiers (1995)
* Damien, René van Densen's cat Satan's new friend, is born (2002)
| September 10, 2023: |
* The animated version of Ben Edlund's The Tick debuts on television (1994)
| September 11, 2023: |
* Eek! the Cat premiers on FOX (1992)
| September 12, 2023: |
* The Smurfs premiers on NBC (1981)
| September 13, 2023: |
* Hanna-Barbara's show Scooby-Doo, Where Are You ? premiers (1969)
* Jim Henson kicks off The Muppet Show (1976)
* Dragonball Z appears on American television for the first time (1996)
| September 14, 2023: |
* Reinder Dijkhuis (Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan) is born (1971)
* Tiny Toon Adventures premiers on FOX (1990)
* Eric Schreurs (Joop Klepzeiker) receives the prestigeous Dutch comics award Stripschapprijs for 2002, for his entire oevre, today on the comics convention De Stripdagen in Den Bosch (2002)
* 3rd annual comics con in Mechelen (2003)
| September 15, 2023: |
* Richard Felton Outcault (father of comics, creator of The Yellow Kid) dies (1928)
* The Snorks premier on NBC (1984)
* In the Stadsschouwburg in Antwerp, Belgium, the first Tintin (aka Kuifje) musical premiers (2001)
| September 16, 2023: |
* The Road Runner and Coyote appear for the first time (1949)
* Gregory Gallant (aka Seth; It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken) is born (1962)
* The first Dilbert cartoon commenting the Y2K-bug is published (1996)
| September 17, 2023: |
* The Charlie Brown And Snoopy Show premiers on CBS (1983)
* The second Dilbert cartoon commenting the Y2K-bug is published (1996)
| September 18, 2023: |
* Adam West (television's Batman) is born (1928)
* The Addams Family premiers on ABC (1964)
* The third Dilbert cartoon commenting the Y2K-bug is published (1996)
| September 19, 2023: |
* Disney's first animation, Steamboat Willie, premiers (1928)
* Scott Fahlman, an IBM researcher, typed :-) in an online message on an online bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University, unwittingly supplying the often ungrammatical and occasionally illiterate Internet culture with its most potent icon: The smiley face (1982)
| September 20, 2023: |
* Gus Edson (the Gumps, Dondi) is born (1901)
| September 21, 2023: |
* Chuck Jones is born (1912)
* Craig Thompson (Goodbye Chunky Rice, Blankets) is born (1975)
| September 22, 2023: |
* Marvel and DC announced their entire universes would cross over for the first time in a joint publishing project (1995)
* René van Densen's Probeersel book 4 got its title (2001)
| September 23, 2023: |
* Peter David (Hulk, Aquaman, Supergirl, Atlantis Chronicles) is born (1956)
* Ivo van Leeuwen (Arthur Riemslag; one of the four founders of De Bedenkelijk Kijkende Grondeekhoorn) is born (1969)
| September 24, 2023: |
* Jim Henson is born (1936)
* David Farley (Dr.Fun) is born (1963)
* Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) dies (1991)
* The NCSA lists Dr.Fun as the first web cartoon (1993)
* The University of Coperihagen, Denmark, is organizing a conference on the subject of comics and culture - it takes three days (1998)
| September 25, 2023: |
* Shel Silverstein (composer, artist, cartoonist, author) is born (1930)
* Christopher Reeve (actor, Superman) is born (1952)
| September 26, 2023: |
* Winsor McCay (Little Nemo) is born (1869)
* Raoul Cauvin (Sammy, De Blauwbloezen) is born (1938)
| September 27, 2023: |
* Stef Kamil Carlens (singer of Zita Swoon) is born. So what ? Well, he always wanted to be a comic artist (1970)
* Matt Baay is born (1978)
| September 28, 2023: |
* Al Capp (Li'l Abner) is born (1909)
| September 29, 2023: |
* Russel Heath (DC Comics artist) is born (1926)
| September 30, 2023: |
* The Flintstones premiers (1960)
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