1964 in comics

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Notable events of 1964 in comics.

Publications[edit]

January[edit]

February[edit]

March[edit]

April[edit]

May[edit]

June[edit]

July[edit]

August[edit]

September[edit]

October[edit]

November[edit]

December[edit]

Births[edit]

April[edit]

August[edit]

November[edit]

Specific date unknown[edit]

Deaths[edit]

January[edit]

  • January 17: Percy Cocking, British comics artist (continued Weary Wilie and Tired Tim), dies at age 82.[27]
  • Specific date in January unknown: Glen Cravath, American comics artist and illustrator (Frank Buck), dies at age 66.[28]

February[edit]

March[edit]

  • March 23: Helge Forsslund, Swedish comics artist (Filimon), dies at age 63.[31]
  • Specific date in March unknown: Bert Link, American comics artist (A Reel of Nonsense, That Little Game), dies at age 79.[32]

May[edit]

  • May 8: Carlos Clémen, Argentine comic artist, dies at age 51.[33]

July[edit]

  • July 1: Antonio Rubino, Italian comics artist, animator, playwright and poet (Quadratino, Italino), dies at age 84.[34]
  • July 9: Piet Broos, Dutch comics artist (Ali Baba), dies at age 53.[35]
  • July 14: Fred Hofmans, Dutch lithographer and comic artist (made comics for Het Weekblaadje voor de Roomse Jeugd), dies at age 68.[36]
  • July 10: Samuel Zagat, Lithuanian-American comics artist (Gimple Beinish the Matchmaker), dies at age 76.[37]

August[edit]

September[edit]

  • September 17: Jean Ray, aka John Flanders, Belgian novelist and comics writer (wrote for Buth's Thomas Pips[41] and text stories by Antoon Herckenrath,[42] Gray Croucher,[43] Rik Clément[44]), dies at age 77.

November[edit]

December[edit]

Specific date unknown[edit]

  • Al Carreno, Mexican comics artist, dies at age 58 or 59.[50]
  • Yves Marie Marcel De Jaegher, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 84 or 85.[51]
  • Guy Depière, Belgian advertising artist, publisher and comics artist (publisher of comic magazines Bimbo and Jeep), dies at an unknown age.[52]
  • C. M. Payne, American comics artist (S'Matter, Pop?), dies at age 92 or 93.[53]

Conventions[edit]

Awards[edit]

National Cartoonists Society Division Awards[edit]

First issues by title[edit]

Marvel Comics[edit]

Release: April. Writer: Stan Lee. Artist: Bill Everett

DC Comics[edit]

Other publishers[edit]

The Adventures of Jesus

Release: Spring by Gilbert Shelton. Writer/Artist: Foolbert Sturgeon

God Nose

Release: Fall by Jaxon. Writer/Artist: Jaxon

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