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2019 In Comics
This is a list of comics-related events in 2019. It includes any relevant comics-related events, deaths of notable comics-related people, conventions and first issues by title. Events January * January 7: First installment of the comic strip ''Alley Oop'' written by Joey Alison Sayers and illustrated by Jonathan Lemon. * January 25: Canadian-Dutch artist Maia Matches is inaugurated as the annual ''Stadstekenaar van Amsterdam'' (''City Illustrator of Amsterdam''). * January: The final issue of the French comics magazine ''Psikopat'' is published. February * February 10: Wiley Miller's newspaper comic '' Non Sequitur'' causes controversy after a subliminal anti-Donald Trump message is spotted in one of the panels. Multiple newspapers discontinued carrying the strip in response. * February 15: The oldest Danish comics store in the world, Fantask, in Copenhagen, announces it will close down in June after 47 years. Within two days a crowdfunding campaign saves the store from this f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballard Street
''Ballard Street'' was an American comic panel created by Jerry Van Amerongen and distributed by Creators Syndicate that ran between 1991 and 2019_in_comics, 2019. About the comic The panel featured numerous characters; some recurring faces are Dottie and Will Farrington, the neighborhood skipping aficionados, Millie, who earnestly lectures the naughty person inside herself, and Scooter, the dog who loves to take baths, but only with his Scuba set, scuba gear. In April 2004, Jerry's Giclee Prints and some original pieces were presented during a one-man show at the Every Picture Tells A Story Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. In May 2006 ''Ballard Street'' was awarded the Best Newspaper Cartoon Panel of the Year Award by the National Cartoonist Society. ''Ballard Street'' was awarded the same honor in 2004. The final ''Ballard Street'' ran on March 30, 2019. Pre-Ballard Street: ''The Neighborhood'' From 1980 to 1990, Jerry Van Amerongen’s cartoon panel, ''The Neighborhood'', appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |