Notable events of 1996 in comics.

Events

January

February

March

  • March 2: The Flemish newspapers Het Laatste Nieuws and De Nieuwe Gazet launch a weekly children comics supplement titled De Samson en Gert Krant, based on the popular TV show Samson en Gert. It will run until 1998, after which it is renamed.[4]
  • March 14: Evronians, by Alessandro Sisti, Ezio Sisto and Alberto Lavoradori, album "number zero" of PKNA ; debut of the principal characters of the series (the A. I. One, the journalist Angus Fangus, the female robot Lyla Lai, the super-heroine Xadhoom).
  • With issue #75, The Sandman ends its run. (DC/Vertigo)
  • First issue of the magazine Mondo Naif (Star Comics), meant as a showcase for the young Italian cartoonists.[5]
  • Prigioniero del futuro (Prisoner of the future) – written by Alfredo Castelli and Antonio Serra, drawn by Gino Vercelli and Claudio Castellini; first team-up between Nathan Never and Martin Mystere (more exactly, an android into which the Martin’s memory has been poured up).[6]

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Specific date unknown

Births

Deaths

January

February

  • February 5: Roberto Raviola, aka Magnus, Italian comics artist (Alan Ford, Kriminal, Satanik, Lo Sconosciuto, Necron) dies from cancer at age 56.[31]
  • February 6:
    • Boody Rogers, American comics artist (Sparky Watts, Babe), dies at age 91.[32]
    • Franco Tarantola, Italian comics artist, dies at age 53.[33]
  • February 13: Cara Sherman-Tereno, American comics artist (Life With The Vampire) dies of leukemia at the age of 44.[34]
  • February 26: Cork, Dutch cartoonist, (Mr. Cork/Ruitenheer), dies at age 64.[35]

March

April

  • April 12: Bob Zschiesche, American comics artist (Our Folks, Harley Hogg, assisted on Gasoline Alley and Snuffy Smith), dies at age 67 from an aneurysm.[41]
  • April 20: Håven, Swedish cartoonist and comics artist (Gamle Uno), dies at age 74.[42]

May

  • May 6: Eric Larnoy, French illustrator and comic artist (Thanéros), dies at age 35 from liver cancer.[43]
  • May 7: Piet Worm, Dutch comics artist (De Vrolijke Vaderlandse Geschiedenis, Professor Zegellak), dies at age 95.[44]
  • May 9: Carl Fallberg, American comics writer and artist (Disney comics) dies at age 80.
  • May 26: Francis Paid, Dutch comics artist (Joris Voetangel, Toonder Studios), dies at age 71.[45]

June

  • June 11: Gin, Spanish comics artist, animator, and illustrator (Nathalie, Denise, Disney comics), dies at age 65.[46]
  • June 15: Nonkel Fons, Belgian priest, publisher, and comics writer (founder of the comics magazine Zonneland, writer of Rikske en Fikske) dies at age 84.[47]
  • June 19: Curt Swan, American comic book artist (Superman, Legion of Super-Heroes), dies at age 76.[48]

July

August

  • August 12: Mark Gruenwald, American comics writer and editor (Marvel Comics) dies at age 43.[51]
  • August 28: P. Hans Frankfurther, Dutch film & TV producer, activist and organizer (founder of Het Stripschap, namegiver to the annual P. Hans Frankfurther comics prize[52]), drowns at age 64, trying to save his son (who also drowns).[53][54]

September

October

December

  • December 2: Don Dohler, American film director, publisher and comics artist (Pro Junior), dies at age 60.[60]
  • December 7:
  • December 22: Jack Hamm, American comics artist (Drawing the Head and Figure, Cartooning the Head and Figure), dies at age 80.[64]

Specific date unknown

  • Themos Andreopoulos, Greek comics artist (Mikros Serifis) and publisher (the magazine Tam-Tam), dies at age 78 or 79.[65]
  • Stan Clements, Australian comics artist (Tom Dunne, Scientific Detective, Dinny Dare, Jim & Jill, Rays of Destiny, Matt Marcus), dies at age 87.[66]
  • Jim Davis, American animator and cartoonist (The Fox and the Crow), dies at age 80 or 81.[67]
  • Zoltán Forrai, Hungarian-Dutch comics artist (Pipa, Miklós), dies at age 94 or 95.[68]
  • Rick Hoover, American animator and comics artist (Disney comics), dies at age 55 or 56.[69]
  • Malcolm Jones III, American comics artist (Sandman), commits suicide at circa age 37.[70]
  • Wang Letian, Chinese comics artist and cartoonist, dies at age 78 or 79.[71]
  • Terry Patrick, British comics artist (worked for DC Thomson), dies at age 66 or 67.[72]
  • Maria Emília Roque Gameiro, aka Màmia, Portuguese comics artist, dies at age 94 or 95.[73]
  • Albert Tolf, American comics artist (assisted on Gasoline Alley, cartoons of San Francisco), dies at age 84 or 85.[74]
  • Dorothy Urfer, American comic artist (Annibelle), dies at age 90 or 91. [75]

Exhibitions

Conventions

First issues by title

DC Comics

Release February Writer: Kevin Dooley. Artist: Steve Crespo
Release March Writer: Garth Ennis. Artist: John McCrea
Release March
  • Essential Vertigo: The Sandman. Black-and-white reprints of the 1988 series.
Release June Writer: Neil Gaiman. Artist: Sam Kieth Artist:Mike Dringenberg
Release July Writer: Peter David. Artist: Gary Frank
Release August Writer: Chuck Dixon. Artist: Scott McDaniel
Release August Writer: Dan Jurgens. Artist: Dan Jurgens Artist: George Perez
  • Essential Vertigo: Swamp Thing. Black-and-white reprints of the 1982 series, beginning with #21.
Release September Writer: Alan Moore. Artist: Steve Bissette Artist:John Totleben
Release NovemberWriter: Grant Morrison. Artist: Howard Porter

Independent titles

Allegra
Release: August by Image Comics. Writer: Steven T. Seagle. Artist: Scott Clarke
Cyberpunx
Release: March by Image Comics. Writer: Robert Loren Fleming Artist: Ching Lau
Keyhole
Release: June by Millennium Publications. Writers: Dean Haspiel, Josh Neufeld, R. Walker, Chris Cliadakis, Linda Perkins. Art by: Haspiel, Neufeld, and Perkins.
Tim Curry
Release February by Curry Comics.

Marvel Comics

Release August
Release October
Release November
Release November
Release November
Release November

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