1995 in comics

Notable events of 1995 in comics. See also List of years in comics.

Events and publication

Year overall

January

February

  • Doom Patrol vol. 2 is canceled by DC Comics with issue #87.

March

April

May

June

  • June 5 Dragon Ball Z comes to an end with the Majiin Boo saga finally done

July

August

September

October

November

  • November 4: The final episode of José Miguel Heredia's Perro Mundo is published.[7]
  • Marvel launches The Punisher #1 under the Marvel Edge imprint
  • Animal Man is canceled by DC Comics with issue #89.

December

Deaths

January

  • January 1: Nans van Leeuwen, Dutch illustrator, novelist and comics artist (Piggelmee), passes away at age 94.[9]
  • January 12: George Price, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), dies at the age of 93.[10][11]
  • January 16: Nin, Spanish comics artist (Trompy, El Habitante del Viejo Castillo de Mockery, Don Espino el Buen Vecino, El Monin y sus Gangsters), dies at age 62.[12]
  • January 24: Frank Emery, American mural artist, jazz musician, photographer, animator, illustrator, and comics artist (4), dies at age 37.[13]
  • January 31: Alfredo Cardona Peña, Costa Rican-Mexican novelist and comics writer, dies at age 77.[14]

February

  • February 4: Odette Fumet, Canadian illustrator, novelist and comics artist (newspaper comic strip adaptations of swashbuckler novels), dies at age 94.[15]
  • February 11: Sharon Alston, New Zealand comics artist, painter and illustrator (made comics for Broadsheet), dies at age 46 from breast cancer.[16]
  • February 13: Bill Perry, American comics artist (Ned Handy, assisted on Harold Teen, continued Gasoline Alley), passes away at age 89.[17]
  • February 19: Paul Jamin, aka Jam, Alfred Gérard and/or Alidor, Belgian comics artist and cartoonist (Le Vol du Bourdon), dies at age 83.[18]
  • February 23: Don Heck, American comics artist (co-creator of Iron Man, continued Avengers), dies at age 66.[19]
  • Specific date unknown: Hugh Morren, British comics artist (Tommy Wack), dies at age 74.[20]

March

  • March 22: Hein Auke Kray, Dutch comics artist (Baas Blaas, de Tielse Kruidenier), dies at age 93.[21]
  • March 29: Mort Meskin, American comics artist (DC Comics) dies at age 78.[22]
  • March 29: Willy Schermelé, Dutch illustrator and comics artist (Winkie, Bartje en Zwartje, Kater Kwik, Jaap en zijn Aap, Kees en Kikkie, Met z'n Drieën), dies at age 90.[23]
  • March 31: Dennis Malcolm Reader, British children's book writer, illustrator and comics artist (Catgirl, Powerman, Electro Girl, Rick Larson, Both 3000, Burt Steele, Wonder Boy, Acromaid, Venus, Phantom Maid, Johnny Wilde, Tim Craig, Dusty Trale), dies at age 68. [24]

April

  • April 19: Reg Wootton, British comics artist (Sporting Sam), died at age 86.[25]
  • April 29: Ingrid Wallerström, Swedish novelist, illustrator and comics artist (Taggstraden, Nisse har fått en Trumma), dies at age 102.[26]

May

June

  • June 2: Walter Frehm, American comics artist (continued Ripley's Believe It or Not!), dies at age 88 or 89. [29]
  • June 5: Raye Horne, American underground comix artist (Gay Hearthrobs, White Whore Funnies), dies at the age of 50.[30]

July

  • July 16: Harry Buckinx, Dutch comics artist (Titul, Titula, De Familie Aepebroeck), passes away from cancer at the age of 51.[31]
  • July 20: George Caragonne, American comics writer and editor (Marvel Comics, Penthouse Comix), commits suicide at c. age 30.
  • July 22: Rick Yager, American comics artist (continued Buck Rogers), dies at age 85.[32]
  • July 25: Balthasar Lippisch, German illustrator, caricaturist, animator and comics artist (Pip & Zip), dies at age 74 or 75.[33]

August

September

  • September 7: Russell Johnson, American comics artist (Mister Oswald), passes away at age 101.[37]
  • September 9:
    • Toon Rammelt, Dutch comics artist, illustrator and radio executive (De Vliegvarobiel van Professor Knap, Sikkie en Dikkie en de Reis naar Luilekkerland, Hummel, Lummel en hun avonturen met de houten doos, De Stakelijers, Eduard), dies at age 84.[38]
    • Pim van Boxsel, Dutch illustrator and comics artist (Cartouche, De Wonderlijke Avonturen van Philomene), dies at age 71 from heart failure.[39]
  • September 13: Walter Goetz, German-British comics artist and illustrator (Colonel Up and Mr. Down, Dab and Flounder), dies at age 83.[40]
  • September 30: Nestor Redondo, Filipino comics artist (DC Comics, Marvel Comics), dies at age 67.[41]

October

November

  • November 2: Ollie Harrington, American comics artist (Dark Laughter), dies at age 83 in Berlin, Germany.

December

  • December 4: Petar Gligorovski, Macedonian painter, comics artist, animator and animated film director (Adam 5 do 12), dies at age 57.[44]
  • December 5: L. B. Cole, American comics artist (Contact Comics, Captain Flight Comics), dies at age 77.[45]
  • December 10: Ganes T.H., Indonesian comics artist (Si Buta dari Gua Hantu), dies at age 60.[46]
  • December 15: Willy Smit, Dutch comics artist (Tijs Wijs de Torenwachter), dies at age 94.[47]

Specific date unknown

  • Benigani, Spanish comics artist, dies at age 92 or 93.[48]
  • Floriano Bozzi, aka Sam Göspel, Italian comics artist (Auranella, Bernada, Jessica, Leonardo), dies at age 68 or 69.[49]
  • Alex Cubie, Scottish comics artist and animator (continued Rupert Bear), dies at age 83 or 84.[50]
  • José De Lemos, Portuguese comics artist, dies at age 85.[51]
  • Óskar, aka Oskar Pinto Lobo, Portuguese comics artist (Tom Migas e o seu cavalo Cara Linda, comics about Laurel & Hardy), dies at age 81 or 82.[52]
  • Don Tobin, American animator and comics artist (Little Woman), dies at age 78 or 79.[53]

Exhibitions

  • August 1–October 27: "See You in the Funny Papers: American Life as Reflected in the Newspaper Comic Strip," curated by Lucy Shelton Caswell in conjunction with the Festival of Cartoon Art (Ohio State University Cartoon, Graphic, and Photographic Arts Research Library, Columbus, Ohio)
  • December 7, 1995 – February 11, 1996: "Classic Comics — A Selection of Stories from EC Comics," featuring the work of, among others, John Severin (Words & Pictures Museum, Northampton, Massachusetts)

Conventions

First issues by title

DC Comics

  • Power of Shazam
  • Sovereign Seven

Delcourt

Malibu Ultraverse

  • Godwheel

Marvel Comics

  • Amazing X-Men
  • Astonishing X-Men
  • Avengers: The Crossing
  • Gambit and the X-Ternals
  • Generation Next
  • Prime
  • Skrull Kill Crew
  • Weapon X
  • X-Calibre
  • X-Men: Omega

Vertigo Comics

  • Preacher

Independent

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