1945 in comics


Notable events of 1945 in comics.

Events and publications

Year overall

  • Real Screen Funnies debuts with a Spring 1945 cover date. The title changes to Real Screen Comics with the second issue and features The [Fox and the Crow (comics)|The Fox and the Crow] and other Columbia-licensed talking animal characters. -
  • Wim Meuldijk creates his newspaper comic Ketelbinkie, which will become so popular that it inspires its own magazine.
  • Italian comics know a noticeable relaunch after the End of [World War II in Europe] and of the fascist censure, despite the strong rivalry of the American strips, previously forbidden by the regime. Belgian comics and Franco-Belgian comics also become an industry on their own.

January

February

March

Spring Issue

April

May

June

July

Summer Issue

August

September

October

Fall Issue

November

December

Winter

Births

March

  • March 20: Arno van Dijk, Dutch comics artist and illustrator,.

July

August

Deaths

January

  • January 3: Georges Colomb, French botanist and comics artist, dies at age 88.
  • January 20: Federico Pedrocchi, Argentinian-Italian animator, comic writer and artist, dies in a bomb attack, at age 37.
  • January 21: Eugène Damblans, aka Eugène Damblanc, Uruguayan-French painter and comics artist, dies at age 79.
  • Specific date unknown: George Hager, American comics artist, dies at age 59 or 60.

February

March

  • March 20: Johannes Franciscus Nuijens, Dutch teacher and comics artist, dies at age 78.
  • March 31: Gaietà Cornet, Spanish caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 66.

April

  • April 25: Jack Wilhelm, American comics artist, dies at age 42.
  • April 30: Erich Schilling, German cartoonist, illustrator and comics artist, commits suicide at age 60.

June

  • June 27: Harry James Westerman, American comic artist, dies at age 68.

September

October

  • October 23: Louis Moe, Norwegian-Danish illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 88.

November

  • November 20: Loy Byrnes, American comic artist, dies at age 38 or 39.

December

  • December 25: Oscar Jacobsson, Swedish comics artist, dies at age 56.
  • December 29: André Hellé, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 74.
  • December 30: Jack McGuire, American comics artist, dies at age 40.

Specific date unknown

  • Marijan Ebner, Croatian comic artist, dies at age 36 or 37.
  • Frank Holland, British comics artist, dies at age 73.
  • Sebastijan Lechner, Yugoslavian comic artist, dies at age 23 or 24.
  • Herbert Rothgaengel, German comics artist and illustrator, dies at an unknown age.

First issues by title

Initial appearances by character name