1985 in comics

Notable events of 1985 in comics. See also List of years in comics.

Events and publications

Year overall

January

February

March

April

May

Summer

July

August

September

October

November

December

Specific date unknown

Deaths

January

  • January 4: Otto Milo, Dutch film critic, comics artist and cartoonist, dies at age 62.[15]
  • January 10: José Luis Salinas, Argentine comics artist (Hernán el corsario, The Cisco Kid), passes away at age 76.[16]
  • January 29: George Needham, aka George Robb, British-Australian comics artist (The Dwight Family, The Bosun and Choclit), dies at age 81.[17]

February

  • February 5: Cees Bantzinger, Dutch comics artist (Knobbel), drowns himself in a river out of shame over his war past. He is 70 years old.[18]

March

  • March 24: Dick Kinney, American animator, screenwriter and comics writer (Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck), dies at age 68.[19]
  • March 27:
    • Don Rico, American novelist and comics writer (Jann of the Jungle, Leopard Girl, Lorna the Jungle Girl), dies at age 72.[20]
    • Hans Kossatz, German illustrator, comics artist and cartoonist (Willi und Familie Kaiser also known as: Vater Kaiser und Dackel Willi), dies at age 84.[21]
  • March 28: Ferry Zipper, Austrian-Dutch illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 74.[22]

April

  • April 11: Bill Zaboly, American comics artist (Otto Honk, worked on Popeye, Wash Tubbs, Our Boarding House), dies at age 74.[23]
  • April 15: Andries Brandt, Dutch comics artist and writer (Holle Pinkel, Horre, Harm en Hella, Aafje Anders, Tina en Debbie, Roel Dijkstra), passes away at age 86.[24]

May

  • May 5: Erkki Tanttu, Finnish comics artist (Rymy-Eetu), dies at age 77.
  • May 11: Chester Gould, American comics artist (Dick Tracy), dies at age 84.[25]
  • May 20: Nettie van Wijland, Dutch illustrator and comics artist (De Avonturen van Tijs Loerendraaier en Dikkie Duik), dies at age 73. [26]

June

July

August

October

  • October 12: George Lemont, American comics artist (Rhode Island Red later retitled Feeny Farm, Micro-Funnies, Doctor Smock), passes away from a stroke at age 58.[33]
  • October 15: Sandro Angiolini, Italian comics artist (Isabella, Vartan), dies at age 65.[34]
  • October 18: Jack Kent, American comics artist (King Aroo), dies from leukemia at age 65.[35]
  • October 23: Adolphe Barreaux, American comics artist (Sally the Sleuth, The Enchanted Stone of Time), passes away at age 86.[36]
  • October 26: Cecil Langley Doughty, British illustrator and comics artist (Dick Turpin, continued Jack O'Lantern), dies at age 71.[37]
  • October 30: Manon Iessel, French illustrator and comics artist (Capucine), dies at age 76.[38]

November

  • November 6: Viktor Kálmán, aka Victor Vashi, Hungarian painter, animator and comics artist (Kuksi), dies at age 74.[39]
  • November 23: Roger Brand, American comics artist (Creepy, Eerie, Jungle Jim and Web of Horror), dies of liver failure at age 42.[40][41]
  • November 24: C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and comics writer (Spekkie en Blekkie, Jesje en Josje), dies at age 67.[42]

December

  • December 6: Walter B. Gibson, American magician, novelist and comics writer (The Shadow), dies at age 88.
  • December 19: Jean Ache/Jean Huet, French animator and comics artist (Achille, Archibald, Arabelle, La Dernière Sirène, Nic et Mino, Tonton Molécule, Pat'Apouf, Amanda La Pin-Up Fantôme), passes away at age 62.[43]
  • December 20: Al Peclers, aka Pec, aka J.B. Stone, Belgian comics artist and caricaturist (Tchantchès, Les Aventures de Jolliker, L'Or du Foumouala, Roger la Bagarre, Jehan Niguedouille, Texas Jim, Timothée), passes away at an unknown age.[44]
  • December 25:

Specific date unknown

  • Mies Deinum, Dutch illustrator and comics artist (Sambo de Olifant, Dieren-jamboree and Myra het Elfje), passes away at age 77 or 78.[47]
  • Sam Fair, British comics artist (Meddlesome Matty, Addie and Hermy, Musso the Wop), passes away at age 76.[48]
  • Roberto Sgrilli, Italian painter, illustrator, comics artist and animator (Formichino), dies at age 87 or 88.[49]
  • Shuhui Wang, Chinese comics artist, dies at age 72 or 73.[50]
  • Xiaoying Yue, Chinese comics artist (The Colorful Road), dies at age 63 or 64.[51]

Conventions

Awards

Eagle Awards

Presented in 1986 for comics published in 1985:

American Section

UK Section

Kirby Awards

First issues by title

DC Comics

DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel: Hell on Earth

Release:. Writers: Robert Bloch and Robert Loren Fleming. Artist: Keith Giffen.

Hex

Release: November. Writer: Michael Fleisher. Artist: Mark Texeira.

The Outsiders

Release: November. Writer: Mike W. Barr. Artist: Jim Aparo.[57]

Limited Series

America vs. the Justice Society (4 issues)

Release: January: Writers: Roy and Dann Thomas.[58]

Crisis on Infinite Earths (12-issues)

Release: April. Writer: by Marv Wolfman. Artist: George Pérez.

The Shadow War of Hawkman (4 issues)

Release: May. Writer: Tony Isabella. Artists: Richard Howell and Alfredo Alcala.

Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe (26 issues)

Release: March. Editors: Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, and Robert Greenberger.

Marvel Comics

The Marvel Saga: The Official History of the Marvel Universe

Release: December. Writer: Peter Sanderson.

Swords of the Swashbucklers

Release: March by Epic Comics. Writer: Bill Mantlo. Artists: Geof Isherwood and Ricardo Villamonte.

ThunderCats

Release: December by Star Comics. Writer: David Michelinie. Artists: Jim Mooney and Brett Breeding.

Web of Spider-Man

Release: April. Writer: Louise Simonson. Artists: Greg LaRocque and Jim Mooney.

West Coast Avengers

Release: October. Writer: Steve Englehart. Artists: Al Milgrom and Joe Sinnott.

Limited series

The Bozz Chronicles (6 issues)

Release: December by Epic Comics. Writer: David Michelinie.

Eternals (12 issues)

Release: October. Writer: Peter Gillis. Artists: Sal Buscema and Al Gordon.

Longshot (6 issues)

Release: September. Writer: Ann Nocenti. Artist: Art Adams.

Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu (6 issues)

Release: June.

Moonshadow (12 issues)

Release: March by Epic Comics. Writer: J. M. DeMatteis.

Nightcrawler (4 issues)

Release: November. Writer/Artist: Dave Cockrum.

The One (6 issues)

Release: July by Epic Comics. Writer/Artist: Rick Veitch.

Secret Wars II (9 issues)

Release: July. Writer: Jim Shooter. Artist: Al Milgrom.

Squadron Supreme (12 issues)

Release: September. Writer: Mark Gruenwald. Artists: Bob Hall and John Beatty.

Independent titles

Alien Encounters

Release: June by Eclipse Comics. Editor: Catherine Yronwode.

Femforce

Release: by AC Comics. Writer: Bill Black. Artist: Mark G. Heike.

Fish Police

Release: June by Fishwrap Productions. Writer/Artist: Steven Moncuse.

Miracleman

Release: August by Eclipse Comics. Writer: Alan Moore. Artists: Mick Anglo and Garry Leach.

Neat Stuff

Release: June by Fantagraphics. Writer/Artist: Peter Bagge.

Scout

Release: September by Eclipse Comics. Writer/Artist: Timothy Truman.

Tales from the Aniverse

Release: December by Arrow Comics. Writer/Artists: Randy Zimmerman and Susan Van Camp.

Tales of the Beanworld

Release: by Beanworld Press. Writer/Artists: Larry Marder.

Those Annoying Post Bros.

Release: Jan. by Vortex Comics. Writer/Artists: Matt Howarth.

To Be Announced

Release: July by Strawberry Jam Comics. Writer: Derek McCulloch. Artist: Mike Bannon.

Initial appearances by character name

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

Independent titles

References

  1. "Décret du 12 juillet 2013 portant promotion et nomination | Legifrance". Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  2. "Tomi Ungerer". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  3. Manning, Matthew K. (2010). "1980s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. Comics didn't get any bigger than this. Crisis on Infinite Earths was a landmark limited series that redefined a universe. It was a twelve-issue maxiseries starring nearly every character in DC Comics fifty-year history and written and drawn by two of the industry's biggest name creative talents - writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez.
  4. "Ereprijzen". www.stripfestivalmiddelkerke.be. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  5. "Jommeke Digitaal". stripheld.hoembeka.be. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  6. "Eppo". www.lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  7. "Peter de Wit". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  8. "Gerard Leever". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  9. https://www.stripschap.nl/pages/stripschapprijzen/de-stripschapprijs.php
  10. https://www.stripschap.nl/pages/stripschapprijzen/p.-hans-frankfurtherprijs/complete-lijst.php
  11. "Bill Watterson". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  12. "History of The Stanleys / Australian Cartoonists Association". www.cartoonists.org.au. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  13. "Alfred Bestall". Lambiek.net. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  14. "Will Eisner". Lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  15. "Otto Milo". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  16. "José Luis Salinas". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  17. "George Needham". lambiek.net. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
  18. "Cees Bantzinger". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  19. "Dick Kinney | I.N.D.U.C.K.S." inducks.org. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  20. "Don Rico". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  21. "Hans Kossatz". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  22. "Ferry Zipper". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  23. "Bill Zaboly". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  24. "Andries Brandt". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  25. "Chester Gould". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  26. "Nettie van Wijland". lambiek.net. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  27. "Charles Nicholas". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  28. "Ernest Hart". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  29. "Frank Hampson". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  30. "Einar Norelius". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  31. "Ken Ernst". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  32. "Pino Zac". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  33. "George Lemont". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  34. "Sandro Angiolini". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  35. "Jack Kent". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  36. "Adolphe Barreaux". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  37. "Cecil Langley Doughty". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  38. "Manon Iessel". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  39. "Victor Vashi". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  40. T.H. "Comix Artist Richard Brand Dead," The Comics Journal #107 (Apr. 1986).
  41. "Roger Brand". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  42. "Otto Dicke". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  43. "Jean Ache". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  44. "Al Peclers". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  45. "Joseph Oriolo". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  46. "Jackie Ormes". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  47. "Mies Deinum". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  48. "Sam Fair". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  49. "Roberto Sgrilli". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  50. "Shuhui Wang". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  51. "Xiaoying Yue". lambiek.net. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  52. Bernardi, Luigi. "Angoulême : Grandezza e Miserie delle BeDe," Orient Express #30 (Mar. 1985), pp. 110-112.
  53. "Peer Pressure," The Comics Journal #105 (Feb. 1986), pp. 69–74.
  54. Detroit Free Press (September 20, 1985), p. 34.
  55. "Weekender Guide," New York Times (Nov. 29, 1985).
  56. "Who's Who bio". www.bailsprojects.com. Retrieved Jul 31, 2020.
  57. Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 215: "[The Outsiders] saw the popular team given the enhanced quality of a Baxter-format series...written by Mike W. Barr and drawn by Jim Aparo."
  58. Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 212: "In this limited series by writer Roy Thomas and penciler Rafael Kayanan, the JSA was taken to trial following a modern-day witchhunt."
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.