1998 in comics

Notable events of 1998 in comics. See also List of years in comics.

Events and publications

January

  • Specific date unknown: Dutch cartoonist Stefan Verwey wins the Inktspotprijs for Best Political Cartoon. He will win the award again next year.
  • La main de la mort and Crime sur Internet by André-Paul Duchâteau and Tibert, 59. and 60. album of the Ric Hochet series (Le Lombard).

February

March

May

Spring

June

  • Emerald Knights begins.
  • Identity Crisis concludes.
  • Superman Red/Superman Blue concludes.

August

  • August 24: The Dutch comics magazine Sjosji changes its name again into Sjosji Striparazzi.It will continue until 1999, after which it changes its name into Striparazzi.

September

October

November

December

Specific date unknown

Births

Deaths

January

  • January 5: Gustavo Martz Schmidt, Spanish comics artist (Toribio Doctor Cascarrabias, El Doctor Cataplasma, Troglodito, Camelio Majareto, El profesor Tragacanto, Deliranta Rococó, La Pandilla Cu-Cux Plaf, El Sherrif Chiquito, continued Doña Urraca), dies at age 75.
  • January 7: Eli Bauer, American comics artist and animator (Kermit the Hermit, Norman), dies at age 69.
  • January 11: Win Mortimer, American comics artist (co-creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not!), dies at age 78.
  • January 18: Adolfo Buylla, Spanish comics artist (Diego Valor, Yago Veloz), dies at age 70 or 71.
  • January 28: Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga artist (Kamen Rider, Cyborg 009, Sandarobotchi), dies at age 60 of heart failure.

February

  • February 8: John Miles, British cartoonist and comics artist (Perkins), dies at age 63.
  • February 14: Thomas McKimson, American comics artist and animator (Looney Tunes comics, Disney comics, worked on the Roy Rogers comic strip), dies at age 90.
  • February 16: Gervy, French comics artist (Pat'Apouf), dies at age 89.
  • February 28: Antonio Prohías, Cuban-American comics artist (Spy vs. Spy), dies at age 77.

March

April

  • April 7: Alex Schomburg, Puerto Rican-American comics artist (Timely Comics), dies at age 92.
  • April 8: Lee Elias, British-American comics artist (Beyond Mars, Black Cat), dies at age 77.
  • April 17: E.E. Hibbard, American painter and comics artist (worked on The Flash, Green Lantern and was the first artist to illustrate a Justice Society story), dies at age 89.
  • April 23: Enrique Riverón, Cuban-American cartoonist, animator and comics artist, dies at age 95 or 96.
  • April 26: Bill Crooks, American comics artist (assisted on Captain Easy), dies at age 80.

June

July

  • July 16: Tony Sgroi, American animator and comics artist (Disney comics), dies at age 73.

August

  • August 1:
    • René Bonnet, French comics artist (Fripounet et Marisette), dies at age 92.
    • Florenci Clavé, Spanish comics artist (Rémy Herphelin), dies at age 62.
  • August 15: Wim Hessels, aka Woeloem, Dutch comics artist (Stoffertje Zuig, Manusje van Alles, Boerensloot, Spatje, Muisje Nisje), dies at age 70.
  • August 20: Robert Rigot, French illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist (Chantal, Frédéri le Gardian, Les Rapaces), dies at age 89.

September

October

November

  • November 2: Enric Sió, Spanish comics artist (La Guerra de los Poetas, Mara, Mis Miedos), dies from a stroke at age 56.
  • November 3: Bob Kane, American comic book writer and artist (co-creator of Batman), dies at age 83.
  • November 17: Bill Ward, American comics artist (Torchy), dies at age 79.
  • November 24: Jacques Eggermont, Belgian comics artist and animator (Bicky, Kaatje en Klopje), dies at age 80.

December

  • December 10: Ray Goossens, Belgian comics artist (Reynaert de Vos, Ouwe Taaie, Mr. Snor, Tijl Uilenspiegel (sometimes titled Tijl en Lamme), Pimmeke, Snops, Tsjoem) and animator (Musti), dies at age 74.
  • December 13: Jean Vern, French musician and comics artist (collaborated with scriptwriter Pierre Christin and comics artist Jacques Lob), dies at age 58.
  • December 21: André LeBlanc, Haitian-American-Brazilian comics artist (Intellectual Amos, Morena Flor, Our Bible in Pictures, assisted on The Spirit, Flash Gordon, The Phantom), dies at age 77.
  • December 23: Joe Orlando, American comics artist (co-creator of the Weird Science, Weird Fantasy series), dies at age 71.
  • December 29: Jean-Claude Forest, French comics artist (Barbarella), dies at age 68.
  • December 31: Sándor Gugi, Hungarian comics artist (Talál Tamás, Der Arme Leopold, adaptations of literary novels), dies at age 81.
  • Specific date unknown: Reginald Ben Davies, British illustrator and comics artist (Jill Crusoe in the Land of the White Queen, Katy of Cedar Creek), dies at age 90 or 91.

Specific date unknown

  • Kim Young-hwan, aka Gita Koji, Korean comics artist (Kojubu Samgukji), dies at age 85 or 86.

Conventions

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