January 1: The first issue ofCucciolo (Edizioni Alpe) is published. In the 1950s and the 1960s, it will be the most popular Italian magazine for children afterTopolino.[1]
January 3: Hussein Amin Bikar establishes the Egyptian children's comics magazine Sindibad (also known as Sinbad).[2]
January 5: Belgian curator Frans Verstreken organizes the first annual Flemish cartoon exhibitionSalon van de Vlaamse Humor (Salon of Flemish Comedy), exhibiting cartoons by dozens of Flemish cartoonists and comic artists.[3]
April 8: ThePiet Pienter en Bert Bibber storyDe Stalen Zeemeermin starts running inHet Handelsblad. Halfway the story, the new main cast member Susan makes her debut.[11]
September 11:Peyo's medieval comic strip seriesJohan, initially published in other magazines since 1947, makes its debut in a redesigned version inSpirou.[16] The initially blond-haired Johan becomes dark-haired.[17]
November 26:Willy Vandersteen'sSuske en Wiske storyDe Dolle Musketiers is first published in the newspapers. Halfway the story, which by then already 1953,Jerom makes his debut.[26]
December 31:Giorgio Rebuffi'sTrottolino makes its debut. It will run until August 1990. It is the first of the several magazines published by the Italian editor Renato Bianconi, aimed at the youngest readers.[29]
April 6: Walli, Belgian children's book illustrator and comic artist (Kommerkat,Cosmic Connection,Gil Sinclair, continuedModeste et Pompon andChlorophylle), (d.2021).[33]
November 26:Edward Ambrose Dyson, Australian cartoonist, illustrator and comics artist (The Capricornia's Crew and their Adventures,Crossdraw Kid,The Lost Tribe), dies at age 43.[50]
Specific date in December unknown: Harold A. McGill, Canadian comics artist (The Hall Room Boys, later retitledPercy and Ferdy), dies at age 75 or 76.[51]
