2007 in comics

Events

January

• January 10: Superman & Batman vs. Aliens & Predator released.
• January 16: Dutch cartoonist Willem wins the Inktspotprijs for Best Political Cartoon.
• January 24: The Boys is canceled with issue #6.
• Red Menace by Jerry Ordway and Adam Brody
• Batman/The Spirit by Jeph Loeb
• Bullet points by J. Michael Straczynski and Tommy Lee Edwards
• The Order of the Stones by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Meziéres, 30th album of the Valerian series.

  February

• February 2: Newsarama reports that The Boys has been picked up by Dynamite Entertainment.
• February 5: Gerben Valkema's comic strip Elsje makes its debut.
• February 7: The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born by Peter David and Jae Lee
• February 28: Release of 2000 AD prog #1526. This is the 30th anniversary issue and will see the start of three new storylines: Flesh, Nikolai Dante and Savage
• The final issue of Cracked is published.
• 100 dollars Pour Mourir by Francois Corteggiani and Michel Blanc Dumont, 16th album of the Bluberry's youth series.
• In Italy, the fantasy series Lys makes its debut, written by Katja Centomo. It is interrupted after 8 issues.

  March

• March 6: Albert Uderzo is honoured as Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.
• March 7: Marvel Comics "kills" Captain America
• March 14: The British children's TV show Blue Peter, who organized a competition to let young viewers choose which new character they would like to become a recurring cast member in the comic strip The Bash Street Kids declare the character Wayne the winner.
• March 14: First issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
• March 21: Andy Diggle starts his run on Hellblazer with issue #230.
• March 21: Empowered by Adam Warren and Ryan Kinnaird
• With issue #215, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight is cancelled by DC.
• The webcomic Crying Macho Man is collected in a print edition.
• First issue of the Italian fantasy series Angel's Friends, by Bruno Enna and Giada Perissinotto.

  April

• April 5: Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot.
• April 15: The tribute album Astérix et ses amis is released, to celebrate Albert Uderzo's 80th birthday.
• April 25: Amazons Attack! by Will Pfeifer and Pete Woods.
• In the DC universe, The Lightning Saga arc begins.
• World war III by Keith Champagne and John Ostrander
• The Trenchcoat Brigade by John Ney Rieber and John Ridgway
• Dimmi Che Non Vuoi Morire graphic novel by Massimo Carlotto and Igort, part of the series about the private eye “Alligator”.

  May

• May 2: The weekly series 52 concludes.
• May 2: Supernatural origins by Peter Johnson and Matthew Dow Smith is released, a prequel to the Supernatural series.
• May 3: Belgian comic artist Benoît Sokal is knighted in the Order of Leopold II.
• May 12: Bristol Comic Expo, start of two-day event
• May 15: Spike: Asylum by Brian Lynch and Franco Urru.
• May 23: British comic heroine Tank Girl returns after a twelve-year sojourn, with original writer Alan Martin on scripts and Australian penciler Ashley Wood on art. The four-part mini-series is called The Gifting and will be collected in time for Christmas.
• First issue of The Astounding wolf-man, by Robert Kirkman and Jason Howard
• Rides – graphic novel by Paco Roca about the old age and the Alzehimer's disease.
• On Tue Au Théâtre Ce Soir by Andrè Paul Duchateau and Tibet, 73th album of the Ric Hochet series.
• Les Trois Yeux des gardiens du Tao by Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Francq, 15th album of the Largo Winch series

  June

• June 1 Silver Surfer :requiem by J. Michael Straczynski and Esad Ribic.
• June 12: In The Amazing Spider-Man, the story arc One More Day begins: the marriage between Peter Parker and Mary-Jane Watson is deleted from the history of the Marvel universe and the Spider-Man's continuity is wholly upset. The radical retcon is harshly criticized by critics and readers.
• June 16: Dragonero fantasy by Luca Enoch, Stefano Vietti and Giuseppe Matteoni, first album of the series Romanzi a fumetti Bonelli. Later, a comic series and a novel one were born from the album.
• In the Green Lantern titles, the Sinestro corps war arc begins.
• Fallen son: The death of Captain America by Jeph Loeb and various artists
• X-Men: Endangered Species by Mike Carey and Scot Eaton.
• Impeesa by Paolo Fizzarotti and Ivo Milazzo – biography of Robert Baden-Powell, published for the 100th anniversary of the scouting.

  July

• July 10–11: Doug Marlette, creator of Kudzu, dies in a car accident, which means the end of his series.
• July 17: in Topolino, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the character Scrooge McDuck, the saga Tutti i milioni di Paperone by Fausto Vitaliano, begins, exploring how Scrooge became a billionaire in the 1920s.
• July 25: The United States Postal Service releases Marvel Superhero Stamps featuring Spider-Man, Wolverine, and other Marvel superheroes.
• Green Arrow: Year One by Andy Diggle and Jock
• In Nathan Never comics, the so-called “space-time saga”, written by Stefano Vietti, begins: a falling space wreck destroys the megalopolis depicted in the series.

  August

• August 11: The two-day comic event Caption starts.
• August 14: Tokyopop begins publishes Undertown.
• August 26: The final episode of Kudzu is published. Half a month earlier the creator, Doug Marlette, died in a car accident.
• August 26: The final episode of Triple Take by Scott Nickel and Todd Clark is published.
• In the Marvel Universe, the crossover Annihilation: Conquest begins.
• In the Top Cow universe, the arc First born, written by Ron Marz, begins; Sara Pezzini and Jackie Estacado give birth to a little girl, Hope, who reunites the powers of Witchblade and The Darkness.
• In Kuwait, first issue of The 99, by Naif Al-Mutawa.
• First issue of Dylan Dog color fest; it's the first integrally color series published by Sergio Bonelli.

  September

• September 8: London Film & Comic Con, start of two-day event.
• September 9: The final episode of Farley is published.
• September 15: Suske en Wiske receive a bust in Kalmthout, Belgium.
• September 19: The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bà.
• September 29: During the Stripdagen in Houten, the Netherlands, Aloys Oosterwijk receives the Stripschapprijs. Ronald Grossey wins the P. Hans Frankfurtherprijs for his book about Studio Vandersteen. Henk Groeneveld wins the Bulletje en Boonestaakschaal.
• 299+1 by Leo Ortolani, parody of Frank Miller's 300.

  October

• October 2: Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin and Giovanni Rigano
• October 10: The Best American series releases the second The Best American Comics publication. The collection is edited by Chris Ware and Anne Elizabeth Moore.
• October 10: Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
• October 10 : First issue of  Volto Nascosto by Gianfranco Manfredi
• October 20: The final episode of Posy Simmonds' Tamara Drewe is published.
• October 30: Zuda Comics, a webcomics imprint of DC Comics, launches.
• October 31: Gli occhi e il buio – a period thriller by Gigi Simeoni, about the hunt for a serial killer in Milan at the beginning of the 20th century

  November

• November 2: In Strasbourg the Tomi Ungerer Museum opens.
• November 9: The Folger Shakespeare Library hosts Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel, and Chris Ware in a discussion on graphic novels as a part of the PEN/Faulkner Reading Series.
• November 21: The first episode of Signe Wilkinson's Family Tree is published. It will run until 2011.
• November 28: The graphic novel Cherubs! by Bryan Talbot is published by Desperado Publishing.

  December

• December 11: Mike Le begins publishing the "Don't Forget To Validate Your Parking" webcomic.
• The final episode of Tumbleweeds is published.

  Specific date unknown

• Gary Panter releases an updated version of his 1992 graphic novel Dal Tokyo.

  Deaths

January

• January 1: Tiberio Colantuoni, Italian comics artist, dies at age 71.
• January 3: Sam Burlockoff, American comics artist and inker, dies at age 82.

  February

• February 6: Robert Gigi, dies at age 80.
• February 8: Joe Edwards, American comics artist, dies at age 85.
• February 14: Willy Moese, German comics artist and animator, dies at age 79.
• February 18:
• * Alfio Consoli, Italian comics artist, dies at age 61.
• * Bob Oksner, American comics artist, dies at age 90.

  March

• March 3: Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian animator and comics artist, dies at age 87.
• March 5: Yvan Delporte, Belgian journalist and comics writer, dies at age 78.
• March 6: Lina Buffolente, Italian comics artist and illustrator, dies at age 82.
• March 9: Hugo Leyers, aka Haschèl or Hug, Belgian comics artist, dies at age 77.
• March 12: Arnold Drake, American comics writer, dies at age 83.
• March 21: Drew Hayes, American comics artist and writer, dies from a heart attack at age 37.
• March 24: Marshall Rogers, American comics artist, dies from a heart attack at age 57.
• March 27: Boris Dimovski, Bulgarian comics artist, dies at age 81.
• March 29: Leslie Waller, American comics artist, dies at age 82.
• March 31: Massimo Belardinelli, Italian comics artist, dies at age 68.