Events for February 28

Feb 28, 1907: Milton Caniff, creator of Terry & the Pirates and Steve Canyon, is born in Hillsboro, OH.

Feb 28, 1998: Archie Goodwin, writer and editor for multiple comic books, passes away.

Events for February 27

Feb 27, 1960: Norm Breyfogle, Batman artist during the 80's and 90's and co-creator of Of Bitter Souls, is born in Iowa City, IA.

Feb 27, 1973: Bill Everett, creator of Marvel Comics' Sub-Mariner, passes away at the age of 55.

Events for February 26

Feb 26, 1977: The first issue of 2000 A.D. goes on sale in the United Kingdom.

Events for February 24

Feb 24, 1998: Antonio Prohias, MAD Magazine cartoonist and creator of the Spy vs. Spy comic strip, passes away.

Events for February 22

Feb 22, 1964: Alec Stevens, artist for Sandman, Silence, and Glory to God, is born.

Feb 22: Andy Diggle, writer for Swamp Thing, The Losers, and Adam Strange: Planet Heist, is born.

Events for February 21

Feb 21, 1993: Harvey Kurtzman, creator of MAD Magazine, passes away at the age of 68.

Events for February 18

Feb 18, 1931: Johnny Hart, writer/artist for the comic strip B.C., is born.

Events for February 17

Feb 17, 1920: Curt Swan, Silver Age comic book artist, is born in Willmar, Minnesota.

Feb 17, 1936: The Phantom comic strip by Lee Falk is published for the first time.

Feb 17, 1970: Hiroaki Samura, creator of the Blade of the Immortal manga series, is born.

Feb 17: C.B. Cebulski, editor for Marvel Comics and creator of the Marvel Mangaverse line of comics, is born.

Events for February 16

Feb 16, 1968: Warren Ellis, writer of The Authority, Planetary, and Fell, is born.

Feb 16, 2005: Dudu Geva, Israeli illustrator and cartoonist of "The Duck" character, passes away at age 54.

Events for February 15

Feb 15, 1939: William Van Horn, comic book artist for many of Disney's Duck comics, is born in California.

Feb 15, 1948: Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus, is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

Feb 15, 1954: Matt Groening, creator of the Simpsons, Life in Hell, and Akbar & Jeff, is born in Portland, OR.

Events for February 12

Feb 12, 1970: Judd Winick, writer and artist for Pedro & Me and writer for Green Lantern and Batman, is born.

Feb 12, 2000: Charles Monroe Schulz, creator of "Peanuts", passes away at the age of 77, the night before the last original Peanuts strip is published.

Events for February 10

Feb 10, 1970: Universal Press Syndicate opens for business syndicating comic strips.

Events for February 9

Feb 9, 1928: Frank Frazetta, renowned pulp artist, is born in Brooklyn, NY.

Feb 9, 1956: Tim Truman, co-creator of Grimjack, creator of Scout, and writer of DC's Hawkworld, is born.

Feb 9, 1959: David B. (David Beauchard), writer/artist for Epileptic and La Lecture des Ruines, is born in France.

Feb 9, 1989: Osamu Tezuka, father of manga, passes away at the age of 60.

Events for February 8

Feb 8, 1914: Bill Finger, co-creator of Batman, is born in New York City, NY.

Feb 8, 2004: Julius "Julie" Schwartz, DC Comics good-will ambassador and father of the Silver Age of comics, passes away at the age of 88.

Events for February 6

Feb 6, 1994: Jack "King" Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg) passes away at the age of 76.

Events for February

1935: New Fun Comics #1 is published, the first comic book featuring all new material (instead of reprinted newspaper comic strips).

1940: Fawcett Comics' Whiz Comics #2 introduces Captain Marvel (SHAZAM!) to the public.

1960: Julie Schwartz gathers the Justice League of America for the first time in The Brave & The Bold #28. Their own comic book would come four months later.

1974: The Punisher begins his one-man war on crime in Amazing Spider-Man #129.

1987: Batman #404 begins Frank Miller's "Batman: Year One", the first post-Crisis Batman story. Wonder Woman #1, written and drawn by George Perez, similarly restarts the post-Crisis Wonder Woman.

1989: After the readers decide his fate via a call-in poll, Robin (Jason Todd) is murdered by the Joker in Batman #428.