1941 in comics

Births

April

• April 24: Gomaa Frahat, Egyptian political cartoonist, (d. 2021).^[13]

June

• June 2: Charlie Watts, British rock drummer (The Rolling Stones) (made comic strips for his band's U.S. tour program and the back sleeve of their album Between the Buttons), (d. 2021).^[14]
• June 15: Neal Adams, American comic book artist (Batman, Superman vs. Muhammad Ali, Green Lantern), (d. 2022).^[15]

July

• July 13: Tom Palmer, American comic artist and inker (Marvel Comics), (d. 2022).^[16]
• July 25: S. Clay Wilson, American underground comix artist (The Checkered Demon, Captain Pissgums and His Pervert Pirates), (d. 2021).^[17]

September

• September 26: Tom Veitch, American comic book writer (The Light and Darkness War, Animal Man, Star Wars), (d. 2022).^[18]

October

• October 20: Leopold Lippens, Belgian politician (namesake of the Leopold Lippens Prize at the Comics Festival of Knokke-Heist^[19]), (d. 2021).^[20]

November

• November 25: Philippe Honoré, French cartoonist (Charlie Hebdo), (d. 2015)^[21]

Deaths

January

• January 4: George Roller, British illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 84.^[22]
• Specific date in January unknown: Jaime Tomás, Spanish comics artist, dies at age 31 or 32.^[23]

February

• February 13: J.B. Lowitz, American comics artist (The Captain Kiddis Kids, Swifty and his Wonderful Dream), dies at age 57.^[24]

August

• August 13:
  John Stuart Blackton, British animator and film director (The Enchanted Drawing, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
  ), dies at age 66.
• August 19: Caumery, French comics writer (Bécassine), dies at age 64.

October

• October 8: Win Smith, Canadian-American animator and comics artist (Penguin Pete, Looney Luke, continued Mickey Mouse, worked on Looney Tunes comics), dies at age 53.^[25]
• October 14: Leoncio Martínez, aka Leo, Venezuelan journalist, playwright, illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist, dies at age 52.^[26]
• October 22: Louis Markous, Ludwig Markous and/or Louis Marcoussis, French illustrator, painter and comics artist, dies at age 63.^[27]

November

• November 26: Patrick Kroon, Dutch caricaturist, painter, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 69.^[28]

December

• December 4: Axel Bäckman, Swedish comics artist (Påhittiga Johansson, Rulle Rustibus), dies at age 73.^[29]
• December 21: Arthur Racey, Canadian illustrator, caricaturist, advertising and comics artist (An Englishman in Canada), dies at age 70 or 71.^[30]
• December 31: Sol Hess, American comics writer (The Nebbs), dies at age 59.^[31]

First issues by title

• National Comics
  )
• All Winners Comics (Summer, Timely Comics)
• Air Fighters Comics (November, Hillman Periodicals
  )
• Helnit Publishing
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• Captain America Comics (March, Timely Comics)
• Captain Fearless Comics (August,
  Helnit Publishing
  )
• Captain Marvel Adventures (March, Fawcett Comics)
• Helnit Publishing
  )
• Classics Illustrated (Gilberton)
• Gene Autry Comics (Fawcett Comics)
• National Comics
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• National Comics
  )
• Police Comics (August, Quality Comics)
• Spy Smasher (September, Fawcett Comics)
• Star-Spangled Comics (October, DC Comics
  )
• Sub-Mariner Comics (Fall, Timely Comics
  )
• The Eagle (July, Fox Feature Syndicate)
• U.S. Jones (November, Fox Feature Syndicate)
• World's Finest Comics (Spring, DC Comics)
• Xmas Comics (November, Fawcett Comics)
• Young Allies (Marvel Comics) (Summer, Timely Comics)