Here’s the latest installment of Maggie Thompson’s ongoing look at important beginnings, middles, and ends, this time for November 14-20, 2025…

175 years ago November 17, 1850 Dutch comics pioneer and caricaturist Jan Holswilder is born.

125 years ago November 20, 1900 Dick Tracy creator and two-time NCS Reuben Award-winner Chester Gould is born.

110 years ago November 14, 1915 Disney animator and Disney comics artist Ken Hultgren is born.

110 years ago November 15, 1915 Golden Age Green Lantern creator Marty Nodell is born.

110 years ago November 16, 1915 William Randolph Hearst and Moses Koenigsberg establish King Features Syndicate, bringing all Hearst’s papers comics into one syndicate.

100 years ago November 17, 1925 Political cartoonist and illustrator J. Campbell Cory dies at age 58. He published The Cartoonist’s Art in 1912 and (with Perce Pearce) established the Denver Academy of Applied Art.

95 years ago November 18, 1930 Western Publishing artist Joe Messerli is born. He also designs the first Twilight Zone logo.

95 years ago November 18, 1930 Belgian artist Marcel Marlier is born.

85 years ago November 16, 1940 Influential Swedish writer-artist Albert Engström dies at age 71. A pioneer of the modern Swedish comic strip, he creates the tramp Kolingen, perhaps the oldest recurring Swedish comics character.

80 years ago November 20, 1945 Artist Loy Byrnes dies at around age 40.

70 years ago November 15, 1955 Olle Kapoen by Phiny Dick, Coen van Hunnik, and Richard Klokkers ends.

70 years ago November 20, 1955 Malang’s Chain Gang Charlie begins.

65 years ago November 15, 1960 Award-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes is born.

65 years ago November 16, 1960 Artist and DC art editor Raymond Perry dies at age 84.

65 years ago November 17, 1960 Artist Vince Giarrano is born. His work includes superheroes and the Rugrats comic strip.

60 years ago November 17, 1965 Writer-editor Ron Marz is born. He is known for his stories for Silver Surfer and Green Lantern and for a variety of work for other publishers including CrossGen, Dark Horse, Dynamite, and Image.

55 years ago November 16, 1970 You know about Charlie Hebdo, right? Well, it will change its name to that because, as Hara-Kiri, it makes fun of the death of Charles de Gaulle and is banned.

45 years ago November 14, 1980 Czech artist René Klapač dies at age 75.

45 years ago November 15, 1980 The Beano releases #2000. The first issue of the British weekly was July 30, 1938, and the anthology series features a variety of kids’ strips.

45 years ago November 19, 1980 Dutch artist and political cartoonist Huib de Ru dies at age 78.

40 years ago November 18, 1985 Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson begins.

35 years ago November 16, 1990 Disney’s The Rescuers Down Under opens. It’s a sequel to The Rescuers (1977) and, as was the case with that feature, is based on the novels of Margery Sharp.

25 years ago November 20, 2000 Russian animator and artist Viacheslav Kotenochkin dies at age 73. His “Nu, pogodil!” also becomes an animated film.

20 years ago November 19, 2005 Guardian cartoonist David Austin dies of stomach cancer at age 70. He created Hom Sap.

20 years ago November 20, 2005 Cartoonist Lou Myers dies of spindle cell carcinoma at age 90. He wrote and drew for the New Yorker.

10 years ago November 16, 2015 Swedish writer-artist Ingvar Persson dies at age 85. He created Frid och Fröjd.

10 years ago November 17, 2015 Artist Henri Arnold dies at age 97. His work for the Tribune Syndicate included the art for Jumble, and he created the Meet Mr. Luckey panel.

5 years ago November 20, 2020 Italian artist Ivo Pavone dies at age 91.

5 years ago November 20, 2020 Award-winning Japanese manga artist Takao Yaguchi dies at age 81.