1956 in comics

Events and publications

Year overall

January

  • January 21: The first issue of the British comics magazine The Beezer comes out. It will be syndicated until 21 August 1993.

February

April

  • April 14: The final episode of Gene Deitch's Terr'ble Thompson is published.[3]
  • Cancellation of Apache Kid, with issue #19, Atlas.
  • In Italy, the Donald Duck story Paperino Don Chisciotte (Duck Quixote), by Guido Martina (script) and Pier Lorenzo de Vita (drawings), a parody of Don Quixote set in modern California, with Donald Duck in the title role and Goofy as Sancho Panza is published. After Mickey Mouse’s Hell, it’s the second retelling by Martina of a literary masterpiece with the Disney characters.

May

July

September

October

November

December

  • Mad becomes a two-montly black-and-white magazine with Al Feldstein and William M. Gaines as new chief editors and publishers. On its cover the magazine's enduring mascot Alfred E. Neuman makes his debut, designed by Norman Mingo.[7]
  • Quality Comics ceases operations; many of the company's characters and title trademarks sold to National Periodical Publications, which chooses to keep only four series running: Blackhawk, G.I. Combat, Heart Throbs, and Robin Hood Tales.
  • Cancellation of the American comics magazine Panic.
  • The final issue of the Belgian comics magazine Heroïc Albums is published.[8]
  • In Uncle Scrooge, Back To Long Ago!, by Carl Barks, 16th-century ancestors of Scrooge McDuck and Donald Duck are introduced. In the following years, this narrative device will be widely imitated by other Disney authors.

Specific date unknown

  • Oğuz Aral creates the Hayk Mammer comics series.[9]
  • Haaken Christensen discontinues Brumle.[10]

Deaths

January

March

  • March 2: Walter Quermann, American comics artist (Hickory Hollow Folks), dies from a heart attack at age 58.[14]
  • March 25: Giovanni Scolari, Italian comics artist (Saturno contro la Terra), dies at age 73.[15]

April

May

  • May 20: Max Beerbohm, British essayist, cartoonist and caricaturist, dies at age 83.

July

  • July 21: Louis Raemaekers, Dutch cartoonist, comics artist and caricaturist (Flippie Flink), dies at age 86.[17]

August

September

October

  • October 6: Erwin Barta, Hungarian painter, illustrator and graphic artist (Hannibal the all round sportsman), dies at age 78.[23]

December

  • December 31: Norm Rice, Australian comics artist (Powerman, Steele Carewe, Nick Carver of the Circus, continued Bluey and Curley), dies in a car accident.[24]

Specific date unknown

Initial appearances by character name

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References

  1. "Morris". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  2. "Express Weekly". Mar 30, 2015. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  3. "Gene Deitch". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  4. "David Wright". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  5. "Maurice Tillieux". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  6. "Jules Feiffer". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  7. "Norman Mingo". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  8. "Fernand Cheneval". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  9. "Oğuz Aral". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  10. https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/christensen_haaken.htm
  11. "Charles Genty". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  12. "Lyonel Feininger". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  13. "WARD GREEN DIES: A HEARST OFFICIAL," New York Times (January 23, 1956), p. 25.
  14. "Walter Quermann". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  15. "Giovanni Scolari". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  16. "Fernand Dineur". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  17. "Louis Raemaekers". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  18. "Doc Winner". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  19. "Jos Speybrouck". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  20. "A. D. Condo". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  21. "Alex Raymond". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  22. "Cecil Surry". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  23. "Erwin Barta". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  24. "Norm Rice". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  25. "Gus Mager". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  26. "Zuni Maud". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  27. "Ralph Mayo". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  28. "Austin Bowen Payne". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
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