TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson
Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles and ends, this time for July 7-13, 2017…
90 years ago July 7, 1927 Sports cartoonist Dik Bruynesteyn is born. He’s known for Appie Happie.
80 years ago July 8, 1937 The Father of Shonen Manga, artist Shinji Nagashima, is born.
75 years ago July 11, 1942 The Italian comics artist of Il Principe Azzurro, Antonio Salemme, dies in fighting at Tobruk at age 48 or 49.
75 years ago July 13, 1942 Artist Tom Palmer is born. He works on such titles as The Avengers and The Star Brand.
60 years ago July 9, 1957 Colorist Kurt Mausert is born.
60 years ago July 10, 1957 Award-winning writer Gerard Jones is born.
55 years ago July 13, 1962 Voice actor Tom Kenney is born. His characters include SpongeBob SquarePants, and he plays comics fan Derek Sprang in Comic Book: The Movie.
45 years ago July 9, 1972 The newspaper strip Tim Tyler’s Luck ends.
40 years ago July 7, 1977 Award-winning adventure-strip writer-artist Roy Crane dies at age 75. He created Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, and Buz Sawyer.
25 years ago July 12, 1992 Al Gabriele dies at age 75 on or about this date. He co-created Black Marvel and Miss America.
20 years ago July 8, 1997 Writer, photographer, and underground comix historian Clay Geerdes dies of liver cancer at age 63. He created the Comix World and Comix Wave newsletters.
15 years ago July 8, 2002 Walt Disney animator and director Ward Kimball dies of complications from pneumonia at age 88. He was one of Disney’s animation greats, the so-called “Nine Old Men.”
15 years ago July 12, 2002 Road to Perdition opens based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner.
15 years ago July 12, 2002 Argentinian artist Jorge Zaffino dies of a heart attack at age 43. His U.S. comics included Winter World.
10 years ago July 8, 2007 Muriel Kubert dies at age 77. The wife of Joe Kubert and mother of Andy and Adam Kubert was co-founder and administrator of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon Art.
10 years ago July 10, 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Doug Marlette dies in a pickup truck crash at age 57. He wrote and drew the Kudzu comic strip.
