2003 in comics

Notable events of 2003 in comics. See also List of years in comics.

Events

Year overall

  • The AOL name was finally dropped from Time Warner, reverted to the Time Warner name.

April

June

  • Wolverine vol. 2 is canceled by Marvel with issue #189.
  • June 10 - Manhwa Dragon Hunter begins publication[1]

July

  • July 18: The first issue of the Croatian comics magazine Q strip is published. It will last until 2013.

September

October

December

Deaths

January

  • January 1: Warren Whipple, American comics artist (continued There Oughta Be a Law!), dies at age 92. [8]
  • January 2: Jack Keller, American comics artist (Kid Colt) dies at age 80.[9]
  • January 8: Franz Drappier, aka Franz, Belgian comics artist (Hypérion, Lester Cockney, Thomas Noland, continued Jugurtha and Jerry Spring), dies at age 54.[10]
  • January 10: Ramón Sabatés, Spanish comics artist (Casimiro Noteví, Agente tel TBI, worked on Los Grandes Inventos de TBO), dies at age 87.[11]
  • January 14: Rémy Bordelet, French comics artist (continued Big Bill le Casseur), dies at age 71. [12]
  • January 20: Mose, French comics artist (Zano, Roméo), dies at age 85. [13]
  • January 28: Leoncio Rojas Cruzat, aka Leo, Chilean comics artist (Macabeo, Castañita, Hurgando el Deporte, Pasionario, Contrafuegos, Solterina), dies at age 83.[14]
  • January 30: Guido Zamperoni, aka Guy Zam, Italian comics artist, dies at age 90. [15]

February

  • February 26: Carlos Freixas, Spanish comics artist (Pistol Jim, Darío Malbrán Psicoanalista, Elmer King, Tucho, de Canilla a Campeón), dies at age 79.[16]
  • February 28: Pete Millar, American comics artist (Drag Cartoons, co-creator of CARtoons Magazine), dies at age 73.[17]

March

  • March 2: Bill Woggon, American comics artist (Katy Keene), dies at age 92.[18]
  • March 3: Dave Pascal, American cartoonist and comics artist (The New Yorker), dies at age 84.[19]
  • March 12: Branco Karabajic, Croatian comics artist and animator (Rolf Kauka comics, Pauli, Familie Mausbein), dies at age 77.[20]
  • March 22: Fernando Carpucino, Italian painter, illustrator and comics artist, dies at the age of 80.[21]

April

  • April 3: Karel Boumans, aka Kabou, Belgian comics artist (De Avonturen van Olivier, Studio Vandersteen), dies at age 71.[22]
  • April 9: Jerry Bittle, American comics artist (Geech, Shirley and Son), dies at age 53.[23]
  • April 14: Ric Hugo, American comics artist (Soliloquy), dies at age 75 or 76.[24]
  • April 14: John Kent, New Zealand cartoonist and comics artist (Varoomshka), passes away at age 65.[25]

May

June

  • June 9: Georges Pichard, French comics artist and writer (Ténébrax, Submerman, Blanche Epiphanie, Paulette).[29]

July

August

  • August 9: Bert Wunderink, Dutch comics artist (Bram en Sijm en de Bende van Zwarte Dolf), dies at age 80.[34]
  • August 31: Dave Gerard, American comics artist (Citizen Smith, Will-Yum), dies at age 94. [35]

September

  • September 25: Herb Gardner, American playwright, screenwriter and comics artist (The Nebbishes), passes away at age 68 from lung disease.

October

  • October 12: Pete Morisi, American comics artist (Thunderbolts), dies at age 75.[36]
  • October 14: Ned Riddle, American cartoonist and comics artist (Mr. Tweedy), dies at age 90 and 91.[37]

November

December

  • December 5: Bob Gregory, American comics writer/artist (Donald Duck comics, Hanna-Barbera comics) dies at age 82.[41]
  • December 20:
    • Edgar Ley, Chinese-born, Belgian comics artist (Frank, various historical comics), dies at age 85 or 86. [42]
    • Hector Saavedra, Argentine comics artist (Disney comics, Looney Tunes comics), passes away at age 49 or 50.[43]
  • December 25: Art Wetherell, British illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 42. [44]
  • December 27: Pete Alvarado, American animator and comics artist (Disney comics, Warner Bros. comics, Hanna-Barbera comics), dies at age 83.[45]
  • December 29: Don Lawrence, British comics artist, (Storm), dies at age 75.[46]
  • Specific date in December unknown: Oliver Passingham, British comics artist and animator (Leslie Shane, Jane Fortune, Rick Martin, Sally Marsh, Zoe Fair, Rick Random), dies at age 78. [47]

Specific date unknown

  • Antonio Correa Expósito, Spanish comics artist, dies at age 62 or 63. [48]

Exhibitions

Conventions

First issues by title

Confidential Assassination Troop
Release: by Tong Li Comics. Writer & Artist: Fung Chin Pang
Fluffy
Release: by Jonathan Cape. Writer & Artist: Simone Lia
Opus
Release: November 23 by The Washington Post Company. Writer: Berkeley Breathed Artist: Berkeley Breathed.
xxxHolic
Release: February 24 by Kodansha. Authors: Clamp.

Notes

  1. Anime-and-Manga | Dragon Hunter Vol. 1, Storenvy
  2. "Albert Uderzo commandeurdes Arts et Lettres". L'Obs. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  3. "Stripdagen 2003 – De Harmonie". www.deharmonie.nl. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  4. "Stripschapprijs voor Fokke & Sukke". De Standaard. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  5. https://www.stripschap.nl/pages/stripschapprijzen/p.-hans-frankfurtherprijs/complete-lijst.php
  6. https://www.stripschap.nl/pages/stripschapprijzen/b-en-b-schaal.php
  7. "Suske en Wiske weekblad". suskeenwiske.ophetwww.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  8. "Warren Whipple". lambiek.net. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
  9. "Jack Keller". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  10. "Franz". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  11. "Ramón Sabatés". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  12. "Rémy Bordelet". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  13. "Mose". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  14. "Leo". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  15. "Guido Zamperoni". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  16. https://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/freixas_carlos.htm
  17. "Pete Millar". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  18. "Bill Woggon". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  19. "David Pascal". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  20. "Branco Karabajic". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  21. "Fernando Carcupino". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  22. "Karel Boumans". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  23. "Jerry Bittle". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  24. "Ric Hugo". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  25. "John Kent". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  26. "Peter Jackson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  27. "Pierce Rice". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  28. "Al Hartley". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  29. "Georges Pichard". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  30. "Cosper". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  31. Oliver, Myrna (10 August 2003). "William Woolfolk, 86; Novelist Wrote for Television, Comics". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  32. "Warren Kremer". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  33. "Guido Crepax". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  34. "Bert Wunderink". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  35. "Dave Gerard". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  36. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-10-01. Retrieved 2015-10-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  37. "Ned Riddle". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  38. "John Tartaglione". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  39. "Len Lawson". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  40. "Kin Platt". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  41. "Bob Gregory". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  42. "Edgar Ley". lambiek.net. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  43. "Horacio Saavedra". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  44. "Art Wetherell". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  45. "Pete Alvarado". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  46. "Don Lawrence". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  47. "Oliver Passingham". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  48. https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/correa_exposito_antonio.htm
  49. "Ohio State University Libraries: Ohio Cartoonists: A Bicentennial Celebration: Frederick Burr Opper, 2003". Archived from the original on December 6, 2007. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  50. "Heroes, Heartthrobs and Horrors: Celebrating Connecticut’s Invention of the Comic Book," Connecticut Historical Society official website. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  51. "Homegrown artists at Comicon," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (25 April 2003), p. 30.
  52. Press release. "2003 Harvey Awards Banquet Cancelled, Awards Unaffected, Comic Book Resources (Jan. 24, 2003).
  53. Broussard, Meredith. "In Full Color: The 2nd Annual East Coast Black Age Of Comics Convention," Sun Reporter (26 June 2003), p. 4.
  54. Allass, Marcia. "Lovely Bristols," Sequential Tart vol. 6, issue #6 (June 2003).
  55. Kempeneers, Michel. "Selected Highlights of the XIVth Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada da Amadora," International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 6, #1 (Spring 2004) pp. 365-367.
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