1965 in comics


Notable events of 1965 in comics.

Events

January

January 19: In Quino's Mafalda, Felipe makes his debut.January 21: in Pilote, La piste des Navajos by Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud; Blueberry gets the surname "Nez Cassé".January 23: The first issue of the British comics magazine Sparky is published. It will run until 1977.January: Robert Crumb's Fritz the Cat makes his first public appearance in Help!.January: Michael O'Donoghue and Frank Springer's The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist is first published.

February

February 13: The final episode of Jay Heavilin and Frank B. Johnson's Einstein is published.February 15: Morrie Turner's Wee Pals makes its debut.February 21 – March 2: The first edition of the Salone Internazionale dei Comics is held in Bordighera, Italy. The next edition will take place in Lucca and thus grow out to become the Lucca Comics festival.

March

March 14:

April

April 1: As an April fool's joke, the covers of the rival comic magazines Tintin and Spirou are redesigned to make the Tintin cover look like Spirou and vice versa, complete with restyled logos and lay-out. The joke was thought up by Spirou editor Yvan Delporte in collaboration with Tintin's editors.April 4: The Masked Cucumber makes his debut in Nikita Mandryka's comic Boff in Vaillant. A week later the strange character receives his own long-running spin-off series.April 8: The first story of Jidéhem's Sophie is prepublished in Spirou.April 12: Since Marc Sleen is contractually unable to publish a new The Adventures of Nero story for three months Willy Vandersteen and Eduard De Rop create a cut-and-paste comic strip named De Geschiedenis van Sleenovia, which features Nero characters but drawn by Studio Vandersteen. It runs in De Standaard for three months, but after only three episodes the comic strip is modified for copyright issues, as Het Volk sues De Standaard for making an unauthorized copy of their former hit comic strip. After a few weeks the legal battle is solved and the story is allowed to continue as planned. It runs until 30 June, after which Sleen finally makes the first Nero story for De Standaard.

May

May 2: The final episode of Right Around Home is published.May 3: The first episode of Bud Blake's Tiger is published, which will run until 2003.May 10: The comic strip The Born Loser, by Art Sansom, begins syndication.May 27: The first episode of René Goscinny and Marcel Gotlib's Les Dingodossiers appears in Pilote, where it will run for the next four years.

June

June 6: In Quino's Mafalda her female friend Susanita makes her debut.June 8: Suske en Wiske receive a statue in Zuiddorpe, The Netherlands.June 14: The final episode of Jack Kent's King Aroo is published.June 26: The first episode of Ted Cowan and Reg Bunn's The Spider is published. It will run until 1969.

July

July 12: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Snoopy first tries to write a novel, which becomes a running gag.July 13: Bob De Moor's experimental gag comic Balthazar debuts in Tintin.July 22: Alfred Bestall concludes his final Rupert Bear story. The comic is continued by Alex Cubie and Jenny Kisler.July 20: in Le journal de Tintin, Piège pour Ric Hochet, by André-Paul Duchâteau and Tibet.July 24–25: The first Detroit Triple Fan Fair is held in Detroit, Michigan by Shel Dorf, Jerry Bails, Carl Lundgren, Tom Altschuler, Ed April, Noel Cooper, Gary Crowdus, Howard Devore, Marvin Giles, Dennis Kowicki, Larry Larson, Eugene Seeger and Robert Brosch. Although a convention for various multigenre it features comic books as a major component too, making it the oldest regularly held comic book convention in the world. It will run until 1977.

August

August 22: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Snoopy first imagines being a member of the French Foreign Legion, which becomes a running gag.August 24: in Le journal de Tintin, The necklace affair by Edgar P. Jacobs.

September

September 5: The comic strip Eek and Meek, by Howie Schneider, begins syndication.September 6: Formiche rosse, by Gian Luigi Bonelli and Guglielmo Letteri; the Egyptian El Morisco, scholar of occult arts and partner of Tex Willer in many stories of a supernatural nature, makes his debut.September 9 : in Pilote, Asterix in Britain, by Goscinny and Uderzo.September 17: Gli adoratori del sole by Guido Nolitta and Gallieno Ferri; the clumsy detective Bat Batterton, recurring character in the Zagor's adventures, make his debut.September 18: The first issue of the British comics magazine Ranger is published. It will run until 18 June 1966. In its first issue Mike Butterworth and Don Lawrence's The Trigan Empire makes its debut.September 20: Bob Weber Sr.'s Moose makes its debut, which will be retitled to Moose Miller in 1971 and eventually Moose & Molly in 1998. The series will continue until 2020.September 30:

October

October 10: In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts Snoopy first imagines fighting The Red Baron, which becomes a running gag.October 14: in Spirou, Bravo les brothers, cross-over between the universes of Spirou & Fantasio and Gaston Lagaffe.October 17: In the Disney magazine Topolino, Paperino e le vacanze solitarie, by Rodolfo Cimino and Giovan Battista Carpi is first published. It marks the debut of Anacleto Mitraglia, the equivalent of Neighbor Jones in the Italian Disney comics.October 28:

November

November 26: The first French satellite A-1 is launched, which is later renamed Astérix, after the eponymous comics character.

December

December 9: The final episode of Bob van den Born's Professor Pi is published.December 19: Jean Tabary's Corinne et Jeannot, a spin-off of Totoche, first appears in print in the magazine Vaillant.

Specific date unknown

Births

November 17: Ron Marz, American comic writer.

Deaths

January

January 1: Leo Morey, Peruvian-American illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 65.January 21:
  • * Carl Buettner, American illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 61.
  • * Reino Helismaa, Finnish lyricist, musician and comics writer, dies at age 51.Specific date unknown: January: U.S. Abell, American comics artist and illustrator, dies at age 78.

February

February 1: Harry Donenfeld, American comics publisher, dies at age 71.February 7: Ralph Lane, American comics artist, dies at age 59 or 60.

March

March 9: Jimmy Murphy, American comics artist, dies at age 73.

April

April 22: Harvey Eisenberg, American animator and comics artist, dies at age 53.

June

June 5: Vernon Greene, American comics artist, dies at age 64.June 11: Fougasse, British cartoonist, dies at age 77.June 11: Frank Tinsley, American illustrator and comic artist, dies at age 65.Specific date unknown: Roy Wilson, British comics artist, dies at age 64.

July

July 14: Marianne Frimberger, Austrian children's book illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 88.

August

August 2: Ving Fuller, American comics artist, dies at age 62.August 15: Julio E. Suárez, Uruguayan radio presenter, painter, caricaturist, teacher, journalist and comics artist, dies at age 59.

September

September 1: René Giffey, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 81.September 11: Valentí Castanys Borràs, Spanish radio presenter and comics artist, dies at age 67.September 12: André Galland, French illustrator, journalist, poster designer and comics artist, dies at age 79.September 21: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, American pulp magazine writer and entrepreneur, dies at age 75.

October

October 18: Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuban cartoonist and comics artist, dies at age 76.

November

November 9: Eduardo Abela, Cuban comics artist, painter and illustrator, dies at age 76.

December

December 8: Jack Gordon, British comics artist, dies at age 74 or 75.December 15: Albert Dorne, American illustrator and comic artist, dies at age 59.

Specific date unknown

  • Robert Louis Raemakers, Jr., Dutch illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 55 or 56 from injuries he suffered during a car accident.
  • Maurice Ketten, Italian comics artist, dies at age 89 or 90.
  • Quincy Scott, American cartoonist and comics artist, dies at age 82 or 83.
  • Sep E. Scott, British comic artist, illustrator and painter, dies at age 85 or 86.

Publications

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Awards

[National Cartoonists Society Division Awards]

Newspaper Comic Strips : Gordo, by Gus ArriolaNewspaper Comic Strips : Buz Sawyer, by Roy CraneNewspaper Panel Cartoons: Berry's World, by Jim BerryGag Cartoons: Orlando BusinoComic Books: Wallace WoodAdvertising and Illustration: Ronald SearleEditorial Cartoons: John FischettiSports Cartoons: Willard MullinSpecial Features: Flubs and Fluffs, by Jerry RobinsonReuben Award: Mary Perkins, On Stage, by Leonard Starr

First issues by title

Other publishers

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Initial appearance by character name

DC Comics

Other publishers

Fritz the Cat, in ''Help!''

Conventions

February 21–22: Salone Internazionale dei Comics — sponsored by Rinaldo Traini and Romano Calisi of the International Congress of Cartoonists and Animators, this is the antecedent to Lucca Comics & GamesJuly 24–25: Detroit Triple Fan Fair — first annual staging of the ground-breaking multigenre conventionJuly 31 – August 1: Academy Con I — sponsored by the Academy of Comic-Book Fans and Collectors and produced by teacher/comics enthusiast Dave Kaler 200 attendees; official guests include Otto Binder, Bill Finger, Gardner Fox, Mort Weisinger, James Warren, Roy Thomas, and Gil Kane