1935 in comics
Notable events of 1935 in comics.
Events and publications
January
Famous Funnies #6 - Eastern ColorFebruary
February 17: Stephen Slesinger's King of the Royal Mounted makes its debut.February 23: First issue of the Italian comics magazine Intrepido is published. It will run until January 1998.February 23: Marjorie Henderson Buell's Little Lulu makes its debut.Famous Funnies #7 - Eastern ColorNew Fun Comics #1 - National Allied Publications - The first comic book with all original material rather than comic-strip reprints as well as the first comic book published by the company that would become DC.March
March 10: Bill Holman's Smokey Stover makes its debut. It will run until 1973.- March 17: Clara Cluck debuts in comics in a Sunday table by Al Taliaferro.March 11: Stephen Dowling and Frank Dowling's Ruggles makes its debut. It will run until 3 August 1957.Famous Funnies #8 - Eastern ColorNew Fun Comics #2 - National Allied Publications
April
April 7 - June 23: Dr. Seuss' Hejji is published as a newspaper comic.Famous Funnies #9 - Eastern ColorNew Fun Comics #3 - National Allied PublicationsMay
Famous Funnies #10 - Eastern ColorNew Fun Comics #4 - National Allied PublicationsJune
June 17: Ralph Fuller's Oaky Doaks makes its debut.June 28: Mary Tourtel retires from drawing Rupert Bear. The comics series is continued by Alfred Bestall until 1965.Famous Funnies #11 - Eastern ColorJuly
July 7: The final episode of Les Mystères Surrealistes de New York, a comic by Spanish surreal painter Salvador Dalí, is printed in The American Weekly.Famous Funnies #12 - Eastern ColorAugust
August 4: The first episode of Mal Eaton's Peter Piltdown appears in print. The series will run until the artist's death in 1974.August 11: The first episode of Hector Brault's Casimir is published in Le Petit Journal.Famous Funnies #13 - Eastern ColorNew Fun Comics #5 - National Allied PublicationsSeptember
September 30: The first episode of the Mickey Mouse story The Pirate Submarine is published in newspapers. The story is created by Floyd Gottfredson and Ted Osborne and features the debut of Dr. Vulter.Famous Funnies #14 - Eastern ColorOctober
Famous Funnies #15 - Eastern ColorNew Fun Comics #6 - National Allied PublicationsNovember
- The first episode of Joe Easley's Along the Iron Pike is published. It will run until November 1971.Famous Funnies #16 - Eastern Color
December
Famous Funnies #17 - Eastern ColorNew Comics #1 - National Allied Newspaper Syndicate - The second comic book title published by the future DC; later renamed New Adventure Comics, and then simply Adventure Comics.- American comics artist Billy Cam first publishes his popular newspaper comic strip CAMouFLAGES in Indonesian papers.
Specific date unknown
- Sigurd Lybeck and Anders Bjørgaard' Jens von Bustenskjold makes its debut.
- Haaken Christensen creates Brumle, which will run until 1956.
- In Thailand, Wittamin creates the comics series LingGee, which plagiarizes both Mickey Mouse and Popeye.
Births
February
February 1: Keith Watson, British comics artist,.July
July 5: Ploeg, Belgian cartoonist and comic artist,.July 13: Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist,.December
December 2: Dick Guindon, American cartoonist,.Deaths
January
January 4: Daniël Hoeksema, Dutch comics artist and illustrator, dies at age 65.February
February 1: Fernand Wicheler, Belgian playwright, actor, journalist and comics artist, dies at age 60.March
March 26: Eugene Zimmerman, Swiss-American illustrator, comics artist and cartoonist, dies at age 72.April
April 2: Henri Avelot, French illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist, dies at age 62.June
June 15: Gaar Williams, American political cartoonist and comic artist, dies at age 54.October
October 15:- * Paul Kroesen, American illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 34 from bronchial pneumonia.
- * Georges Tiret-Bognet, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 80.October 20: Sidney Smith, American comics artist, dies at age 58 in a car accident.October 21: Joseph Charlebois, Canadian comics artist, dies at age 63.
November
November 27: Fred Leipziger, Swedish-American comics artist, dies at age 55.December
December 25: Ed Mack, American comics artist, dies at age 64.First issues by title
- New Fun Comics
- 'New Comics'''''
Initial appearances by character name
- Doctor Occult New Fun #6 - October, published by National Allied Newspaper Syndicate.
- Rose Psychic New Fun #6 - October, published by National Allied Newspaper Syndicate.