May 27: Frank Crane'sWillie Westinghouse Edison Smith, the Boy Inventor makes its debut.[2]
September 16:Gus Dirks'Latest News from Bugville makes its debut. It will run until 9 March 1902.[3]
December:Richard F. Outcault'sPoor Li'l Mose is the first comic strip to star a black character. The series will run until August 1902.[4][5]
December 30:John Campbell Cory launchesLariat Pete. The comic series will run until 1902.[6]
Johannes Franciscus Nuijens (Korporaal Achilles), a Dutch Catholic teacher, publishes the political comic bookAanleiding tot den Engelsch-Transvaalschen Oorlog (Reason for theEnglish-Transvaal War).[7]
Arpad Schmidhammer draws thetext comicTotentanz der Politik, a satire on war politics, with theGrim Reaper as its star.[8]
Kitazawa Rakuten createsTagosaku to Mokubē no Tōkyō-Kenbutsu (田吾作と杢兵衛の東京見物,, "Tagosaku and Mokube's Sightseeing in Tokyo") andHaikara Kidorō no Sippai (灰殻木戸郎の失敗,, "The Failures of Kidoro Haikara" for the magazine Jiji Manga.
March 22:Grace Drayton's comic strip character Toodles (later known asDolly Dimples) makes her debut. She will appear in various incarnations until 1933.[28]
January 2:George Herriman'sMajor Ozone's Fresh Air Crusade makes its debut, syndicated by World Color Printing Co.[39]
January 3: The first issue of the Spanish illustrated children's magazineEn Patufet is published. It will run until December 1938. Between 6 December 1968 and 29 June 1973 it will be revived.
January 11: George Frink'sCircus Solly makes its debut. It will run until 4 December 1911.[40]
January 30:Albéric Bourgeois'sLes Aventures de Timothée makes its debut. The first serialized Canadian comic strip in the French language.[41]
April 16:Julius Stafford Baker creates the comic stripMrs. Hippo's Kindergarten forThe Daily Mirror, which featuresTiger Tim who will become a popular spin-off comic in The Monthly Playbox from November 1904 on.[26]
April 20:George McManus'sThe Newlyweds makes its debut. It will run under various titles until 1956.[44][45]
April 22:Gus Mager starts his... the Monk comics series, which will run until 1913.[46]
April 23: René-Charles Béliveau'sLa Famille Citrouillard makes its debut inLa Patrie. The comic will continue until February 1905, after which he leaves it to T. Bisson.[47]
February 2: The first issue of the French girls' comics magazineLa Semaine de Suzette is published. It will run until 25 August 1960. In its first issueJoseph Pinchon's text comicBécassine makes its debut.[55][56]
August 13: The first episode ofGene Carr'sThe Bad Dream That Made Bill A Better Boy is published. But he passes it on toWilliam Steinigans, who will continue the series until 1911.[58]
January 14: AfterRichard F. Outcault has been bought away to another newspaper his comics seriesBuster Brown is continued in the old publication by Worden Wood.[5][60]
April 19: The first episode ofLyonel Feininger'sWee Willie Winkie's World is published. It will run until 17 February 1907.[61]
August 12: The first episode ofWilliam Steinigans'sPups is published. It will run until 1911.[58]
August 23: Grif'sIt's Only Ethelinda makes its debut.[73]
August 30: The final episode of Frank Crane'sVal the Ventriloquist is published.[2]
December 27: The first issue of the Italian comics magazineCorriere dei Piccoli is published. In its first issueAttilio Mussino'sBilbolbul makes its debut. The series will run until 1933. The magazine itself will run until 15 August 1995.
January 10: The final episode of Ed Carey'sSimple Simon is published.[16]
February:Walt Kuhn's comicWhisk makes its debut and will run until October 1910.[77]
October 21: André Vallet and Jo Valle'sL'Espiègle Lili makes its debut. It will run until 1998.[78]
November 1:John Hager'sThe Umbrella Man makes its debut in theSeattle Daily Times, appearing on the front page as a supplement for the weather.[79] Not titled as theUmbrella Man, but called that May 3, 1913, under a section called "Features of Today's Paper".
November 27:C. M. Payne'sMr. Hush (later retitledHoneybunch's Hubby) debuts. It will continue until 1911 but be briefly revived between 1931 and 1934.[37]
December 23: The first episode ofGeorge Herriman'sGooseberry Sprig is published. Although it barely lasts a few weeks, it does introduce the characters Gooseberry Sprig, Joe Stork and the settingCoconino County, which will later reappear in his more famous comicKrazy Kat.[80]
December:Rose O'Neill'sKewpies comic strip is first published inLadies' Home Journal. The characters will become very popular as toy articles in the following decades.[81]
Daan Hoeksema publishesDe Neef van Prikkebeen, a follow-up toRodolphe Töpffer'sDe Neef van Prikkebeen.[82]
May 27:Fritz von Dardel, Swiss comics artist (Ett Frieri,Herrar Black & Smith på väg till Skandinavien,Familjen Tutings Lustresa till Bomarsund), dies at age 84.[91]
June 15: José Luis Pellicer, Spanish painter, illustrator and comics artist (made several picture stories), dies at age 59.[92]
April 19: Jan Linse, Dutch painter, caricaturist and comics artist (made comics for the satirical magazinesHumoristisch Album andAbraham's Prikkie's Op- en Aanmerkingen), dies at age 62.[100]
June 26: Victor Géruzez, A.K.A.Crafty, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 66.[101]
July 3: Gédéon Baril, French comic artist (drew prototypical comics), dies at age 73.[102]
November 28:Oskar Andersson, akaO.A., Swedish comics artist (Mannen Som Gör Vad Som Faller Honom In (The Man Who Does Whatever Comes To His Mind),Urhunden), commits suicide at the age of 29.[24]
January 9:Wilhelm Busch, German illustrator, poet, painter, graphic artist and comics artist (Max und Moritz), dies at age 75.[104]
January 19:Georgi Danchov, Bulgarian illustrator, caricaturist, painter and comics artist (The Six Feelings), passes away at age 61.[105]
September 4: Théophile Hyacinthe Busnel, French illustrator and comics artist (Farces du Petit Cousin Charlot, continuedLes Aventures de Timothée), dies from TBC at age 25 or 26.[106]
September 17:Henri Julien, Canadian painter, caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist, passes away at age 56.[107]
September 22:F. M. Howarth, American comics artist (The Love of Lulu and Leander,Mr. E.Z. Mark,Ole Opey Dildock), dies at age 43 of pneumonia.[25]
Specific date unknown: Eduardo Sojo, Argentinian comic artist (Don Quijote), dies at age 58 or 59.[108]
