Portal:Comics/Anniversaries/January/January 20

1894: birth of Harold Gray, American comic strip author best known for Little Orphan Annie
1916: birth of
comics artist, co-creator of Green Arrow and Congo Bill

1927: debut of Ching Chow, American one-panel cartoon created by Sidney Smith and Stanley Link
1928: birth of
fine arts painter
, creator of Kosme, the Cop, Retired

1938: death of
caricaturist, cartoonist, and animator
, called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon"

1944: birth of Bill Griffith, American underground cartoonist best known for creating Zippy the Pinhead
1950: birth of Keith Pollard, American comic book artist best known for his work on Fantastic Four
1965: birth of Jim Keefe, American comics artist best known for Flash Gordon
1968: birth of Gerry Alanguilan, Filipino comic book artist known for Wasted
1970: birth of Geoffrey Thorne, American screenwriter, producer, novelist and actor, creator of The Winterman Project
1973: first publication of
Buzz, a British broadsheet
comic which appeared for almost two years

2017: death of John Watkiss, British artist known for his painting and his work in comics and film production