Portal:Comics/Anniversaries/October/October 19

• Unknown year: birth of Dean White, American comics colorist
• 1883: birth of William Donahey, American comic strip creator best known for Teenie Weenies
• 1927: birth of Vic Lockman, American comics artist best known as creator of Moby Duck
• 1947: birth of Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comics artist best known for his work on Disney comics
• 1955: first appearance of Modeste et Pompon in Le Journal de Tintin, a comic strip started by René Goscinny and André Franquin
• 1961: birth of Mike Manley American comics artist best known for co-creating Darkhawk
• 2002: death of Hans Jürgen Press, German illustrator and writer, known for riddle and crime comics
• 2012: death of John Radford, British writer and broadcaster, who early in his career wrote comics for D. C. Thomson & Co