Notable events of 1997 in comics.

Events

January

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Specific date unknown

Births

Deaths

January

February

  • February 3: Geoffrey Foladori, Uruguayan comics artist (El Professor Pistacho, Pelopincho y Cachirula, Don Gumersindo, Don Tranquilo y Flia), dies at age 88.[25]
  • February 7: Nina Albright, American comics artist (Comandette, continued Miss Victory), dies at age 89.[26]
  • February 13: Hans Schlensker (Biff Baker, assisted on Buz Sawyer), dies at age 82.[27]
  • February 15: Jack Sparling, Canadian-American comics artist (Claire Voyant, Hap Hopper, Washington Correspondent), dies at age 81.[28]
  • February 23: Larry Antonette, aka Dean Carr, American comics artist (Dash Dixon, Bozo and the Baron, Calling the Duke), dies at age 87.[29]
  • Specific date unknown: Arthur Horner, Australian-British cartoonist (Colonel Pewter, The Thoughts of Citizen Doe), dies at age 80.[30]

March

April

  • April 4: Billy Graham, American comics artist (worked on Luke Cage, Black Panther), dies at age 61.[32]
  • April 11: Helge Kühn-Nielsen, Danish comics artist, teacher, painter and illustrator, dies at age 76.[33]
  • April 16: Roland Topor, French novelist, illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, film script writer, TV script writer, animator and playwright (Hara-Kiri), dies at age 59.[34]
  • April 20: Stamatis L. Polenakis, Greek comic artist and animator (Pipis Papias, Spagorammenos), dies at age 88 or 89.[35]
  • April 27: Víctor Arriazu, Spanish comics artist (assisted on El Jabato), dies at age 61 or 62.[36]

May

June

  • June 6: Manny Stallman, American comics artist (various horror comics), dies at age 70.[40]
  • June 12: Rémy Bourles, French comics artist (Bob Mallard), dies at age 91.[41]
  • June 15: Kim Casali, New Zealand cartoonist and comics artist (Love Is...), dies of bone and liver cancer at age 55.[42]

July

  • July 6: Michele Pepe, Italian comic artist (Fury, Gli Eroi del Mare, worked on Zagor, Martin Mystère), dies at age 50.[43]
  • July 8: Clay Geerdes, American writer and photojournalist who extensively covered the underground comix movement (founded Comix World newsletter), dies of liver cancer at age 63.[44]

August

  • August 19: James Ringrose, Dutch comics artist (Tekko Taks, Blix Kater, Willie en Wop), dies at age 83.[45]

September

  • September 4: Nasjah Djamin, Indonesian illustrator and comics artist (drew a comic book about Hang Tuah), dies at age 72.[46]
  • September 15: Lode Pemmelaar, Dutch painter and comics artist (Romila the Velvet Girl), dies at age 54.[47]
  • September 25: Josep Toutain, Spanish comics artist and publisher (founder of Selecciones Ilustradas and Toutain-Editor), dies from lung cancer at age 64–65.[48]

October

  • October 8: Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist and sculptor (inspiration for the Tintin character Chang Chong-Chen), dies at age 91.[49]
  • October 16: Dick Cavalli, American comics artist and cartoonist (Winthrop, continued Norbert), dies at age 74.[50]
  • October 18: Milt Neil, American animator and comics artist (the Howdy Doody comic strip), dies at age 83.[51]
  • October 22: Per Lygum, Danish animator and comics artist (Planckton), dies at age 64.[52]
  • October 30: Nikola Mitrovic, AKA Kokan, Serbian comic artist, dies at age 73.[53]

November

December

Specific date unknown

  • Carol Carlson, American comics artist (The Adventures of Waddles), dies at age 84 or 85.[61]
  • Dennis Ellefson, American comics artist, dies at age 59 or 60.[62]
  • Kerstin Frykstrand, Swedish illustrator and comics artist (Muff och Tuff), dies at age 95 or 96.[63]
  • Frank Little, American animator and comics artist (worked for Jerry Iger's studio), dies at age 90.[64]
  • Armand Panis, A.K.A. Sinap, Belgian comics artist, caricaturist and cartoonist (Klopstok), dies at age 89 or 90.[65]
  • Jorge Pérez Del Castillo, Chilean-Argentine comics artist, dies at age 73 or 74.[66]
  • Alan Philpott, British comic artist (Robot Archie, The Deathless Men), dies at age 82 or 83.[67]
  • Roex, A.K.A. Roger Exelmans, Belgian comics artist (continued Rikske en Fikske), dies at age 60.[68]
  • Bernard Segal, A.K.A. "Seeg", American painter and comics artist (Honey and Hank, also known as Elsworth), dies at age 78 or 79.[69]
  • George Smits, A.K.A. 'Toet', Belgian painter, experimental musician and comics artist (De avonturen van Jan, member of Ercola), dies at age 52 or 53.[70]
  • Tony Velasquez, Filipino comics artist (Kenkoy), dies at age 86.[71]
  • Roland Venet, aka Rol, French comics artist (Wa-Pi-Ti), dies at age 77 or 78.[72]

Conventions

Exhibitions

First issues by title

Clover
Release: by Kodansha (Amie). Authors: Clamp
Desert Punk
Release: August 5 by Enterbrain (Comic Beam). Author: Usune Masatoshi
Peach Girl
Release: by Kodansha (Bessatsu Friend). Author: Miwa Ueda

DC Comics

Jack Kirby's Fourth World by John Byrne
Young Heroes in Love
The Flintstones and The Jetsons
Transmetropolitan
JLA: Year One by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson. 12-issue maxi-series

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