1933 in comics

Notable events of 1933 in comics. See also List of years in comics.

Events and publications

January

February

April

  • April 17: Orhan Halil Tolon publishes Zıpzıp Ali'nin Serüvenleri (The Adventures of Ali the Hopper).[2]
  • Printer Eastern Color Printing makes its first foray into comic book publishing with Gulf Comic Weekly #1. The comic is 10 ½" x 15", and is advertised on national radio. All four pages contained one-page, full color comic strips. The tabloids are grabbed up as fast as Gulf Oil service stations can offer them. Gulf Comic Weekly is soon changed to Gulf Funny Weekly, and distribution shoots up to 3 million copies a week. The series runs as a tabloid until 1939 and runs for 422 issues until May 23, 1941. Around the same time, Eastern also prints another four-page tabloid for Standard Oil, titled Standard Oil Comics.
  • Eastern Color Printing makes its second foray into comic book publishing with Funnies on Parade.

May

  • May 11: First issue of the Italian comics magazine Il Monello. It will run until 12 October 1990.

July

August

  • August 9: Wiley Padan's newspaper cartoon panel It's True, with trivia about Hollywood films and actors, is first published and will run until his death in 1947.[8]
  • August 21: Clarence Gray and William Ritt's comics series Brick Bradford makes its debut.

September

October

December

Specific date unknown

  • Francisco Darnis' Nick, Pecho de Hiero debuts.[11]

Deaths

February

April

  • April 1: Joaquín Xaudaró, Spanish cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and animator, dies at age 60.[13]

May

  • May 13: William James Sinnott, American comics artist (Vivian and Viola, Dicky Dippy's Diary), dies at age 57.[14]

August

  • August 10: Henry Maigrot, aka Henriot, French caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator and comics artist (Le Petit Chaperon Rouge), dies at age 76.[15]

September

  • September 19: E.W. Kemble, American comics artist (Mammy's Li'l Lamb), dies at age 72.[16]

October

  • October 29: George Luks, American painter, illustrator and comics artist (continued Hogan's Alley), dies in a bar brawl at age 66.[17]

November

  • November 12: Petter Lindroth, aka Per Lindroth, Swedish illustrator and comics artist (Jocke, Nicke, Majken, Pelle och Kickan), passes away at age 44.[18]

Specific date unknown

  • Albert-Samuel Brodeur, Canadian illustrator and comics artist (Francine et Graindesel), dies at age 70 or 71.[19]
  • Alfred Leete, British illustrator, poster designer and comics artist (Schmidt the Spy, Bosch), dies at age 50 or 51.[20]

Sources

  1. "Ernie Bushmiller". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  2. "Orhan Halil Tolon". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  3. "Max Fleischer". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  4. "Tack Knight". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  5. "Stanley J. Link". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  6. "Elzie Crisler Segar". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  7. "Milton Caniff". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  8. "Wiley Padan". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  9. "Al Posen". lambiek.net. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  10. "Feg Murray". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  11. "Francisco Darnis". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  12. "Pat Sullivan". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  13. "Joaquin Xaudaró". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  14. https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sinnott.htm
  15. https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/henriot.htm
  16. "E. W. Kemble". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  17. "George Luks". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  18. "Petter Lindroth". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  19. "Albert-Samuel Brodeur". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  20. "Alfred Leete". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
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