Portal:Comics/Anniversaries/January/January 1

• 1912: birth of Tony Weare, British comic strip artist best known for Matt Marriott
• 1922: birth of Jerry Robinson, American comics book artist best known for his work on early Batman comics
• 1971: birth of Chris Weston, British comics book artist
• 1971: birth of Walter A. McDaniel, American comics book artist
• 1980: debut of The Far Side, popular American one-panel comic strip by Gary Larson
• 1991: last issue of Starblazer, British anthology comic magazine which ran for 281 issues
• 1995: final new strip of The Far Side, 15 years after its debut
• 1996: launch of Bruno, American webcomic by Christopher Baldwin
• 1999: start of College Roomies from Hell!!!, Mexican-American webcomic by Maritza Campos-Rebolledo
• 2000: last appearance of Motley's Crew, American comic strip by Ben Templeton and Tom Forman
• 2005: debut of Le blog de Frantico, French webcomic by an unknown author rumoured to be Lewis Trondheim or one of his friends-collaborators
• 2007: syndication starts for Diesel Sweeties, previously a webcomic by Richard Stevens III