1961 in comics


Notable events of 1961 in comics.

Publications

Year overall

January

February

March

March 6: In Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts Frieda makes her debut.March 18: The first issue of the British comics magazine Bimbo is published. It will run until 22 January 1972. In the first issue Bob Dewar's Bimbo makes its debut.

April

April 1: Eric Roberts' Winker Watson debuts in the British comics magazine The Dandy.

May

May 11: Maurice Rosy's and Paul Deliège's Bobo makes its debut in a mini–récit in Spirou magazine.

June

July

July 1: The first episode of the Dutch funny animal comic Wipperoen by Raymond Bär von Hemmersweil and Jan van Reek is published. The series will run until 1974.

August

September

September 25: The first episode of Harry Mace's Amy comic strip is published. It will run until 1991.

October

October 16: Mort Walker and Jerry Dumas' Sam's Strip makes its debut. It will run until 1963.

November

November 19: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Little Red-Haired Girl makes her debut.

December

Specific date unknown

Births

October

Specific date unknown

Deaths

January

January 10: Dashiel Hammett, American detective novelist and scriptwriter, dies at age 66.

February

February 11: Kate Carew, American caricaturist and comics artist, dies at age 91.February 27: Nate Collier, American animator, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 77.

April

April 1: William Sharp, Austrian-American comic artist, dies at age 60.

May

Specific date unknown: Art Krenz, American writer and sports cartoonist, dies at age 55 or 56.

June

June 2: Chéri Hérouard, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 80.June 30: Félix Jobbe-Duval, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 82.

July

July 20: Wilson McCoy, American comics artist, dies at age 59.

August

August 9: Joseph Hémard, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 81.

September

September 20: Nándor Honti, aka Bit, Hungarian painter, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 83.Specific date in September unknown: Julius Stafford Baker, British comics artist, dies at age 91 or 92.

December

December 6: Ralph O. Yardley, American comics artist, dies at age 83.December 24: Charles Hamilton, aka Frank Richards, British novelist and comics writer, dies at age 85.December 31: Péricles, Brazilian comics artist, commits suicide at age 37.

Specific date unknown

  • Bernard Dibble, American comics artist, dies at age 61 or 62.
  • Max A. Otto, German comics artist, dies at age 61.
  • Raúl Roux, Uruguayan-Argentine comics artist, dies at age 59.

Initial appearances by character name

DC Comics

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