Portal:Comics/Anniversaries/January/January 4
- 1907: birth of Bruno Premiani, Italian comic book artist best known for co-creating The Doom Patrol and the Teen Titans
- 1919: birth of Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, Portuguese comic book artist best known for Ragnar
- 1923: birth of Chic Stone, American comic book artist best known as an inker on Fantastic Four
- 1967: birth of Bob Almond, American comic book inker, known for spearheading of the Inkwell Awards to honor comics inkers
- 1975: last publication of Buzz, a British broadsheetcomic which appeared for almost two years
- 1975: death of Bob Montana, American comic strip creator best known for Archie
- 1982: launch of Sally Forth, a daily comic strip created by Greg Howard and distributed by King Features Syndicate
- 2000: last appearance of Buster, a Britishcomic which started in 1960
- 2007: death of Gren, Welsh comics artist best known for Ponty an' Pop and Big Deal
- 2007: debut of the website for the Create a Comic Project, a webcomic-based educational endeavor by John Baird