Updates marked with *
Deaths in 2021 (with
thanks to Randy Tischler of the Baltimore Comic Con, D.D.
Degg of the Daily Cartoonist, Cartoon Brew’s animation list by Amid Amidi, and Animation Magazine) included British cover painter Chris Achilléos, ‘Simpsons’
artist Edwin Aguilar, Universal Press Syndicate co-founder Kathleen Andrews,
voice actor Jack Angel, gag cartoonist Sam Ansell, Don Asmussen, ‘Up’ voice
actor Ed Asner, Disney animator Dale Baer, British animator Bob Baker, early black
women animator Brenda Banks, first woman contributing editor for the National
Lampoon Anne Beatts, animator Vinnie Bell, animation historian Giannalberto
Bendazzi, comic book colorist Liz Berube, Ryan "Bode" Bodenheim, animation
consultant Jamie Kezlarian Bolio, Lou Brooks, Alison Brown of London’s Cartoon
Museum, Claymation director Barry Bruce, armadillo cartoonist Bill Bryant, Newton
Burch, former animator Allan Burns, animator Ron Campbell, French BD writer Raoul
Cauvin, comics-influenced Pop Artist John Clem Clarke, editorial cartoonist Ray
Collins, animator Sam Cornell, Bob's Burgers lead character designer Dave Creek,
Gene D’angelo, Patrick Dean, Willie Who… cartoonist Matt Dent, animation
producer David DePatie, Superman: The Movie director Richard Donner, Canadian
animator Jacques Drouin, animator Don Duga, Pittsburgh comic book store owner
Greg Eide, comics scholar Mark F. Fertig, Chris Foote, Belgian-American
cartoonist Gérald Forton, Spiegelman's Maus editor at Pantheon Dan Frank, gay
cartoonist Fran Frisch, sports cartoonis John Furlow, Claude & Ernie cartoonist
Dan Gola, Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner, gag cartoon writer and gatherer Al Gottlieb,
Michel Vaillant creator Jean Graton, Disney animator Troy Gustafson, Mexican
comic book writer Francisco Haghenbeck, Jesse Hamm, Maryland cartoonist Steve
Hauk, Eddy Hedington, Dennis the Menace’s tv mother Gloria Henry, fantasy
artist Stephen Hickman, gekiga manga creator Hiroshi Hirata, ‘Down on the Farm’
cartoonist Bruce Holman, Filipino comic book inker Jeff Huet (of COVID), comics
scholar M. Thomas Inge, Japan's most prolific manga historian Shimizu Isao, MAD
writer Frank Jacobs, Croatian comic book publisher and translator Tatjana “Tanja”
Jambrišak, Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics, French animator Olivier
Jean-Marie, Australia’s ‘first woman animator’ Anne Jolliffe, animator Don Jurwich,
Jules Feiffer’s collaborator Norton Juster, Canadian cartoonist and animator Bob
Kain, beer label cartoonist Bart Kaminski, student cartoonist Sharon Smith Kane,
Wonder Woman writer Joye Evelyn Murchison Kelly (neé Hummel), Graphic Canon
editor Russ Kick, Canadian editorial cartoonist Alan King, anime director Osamu
Kobayashi, Easton Star Democrat editorial cartoonist Rick Kollinger, David
Anthony Kraft, cartoonist and caricaturist Dick Kulpa, pioneering American anime
producer Fred Ladd (aka Laderman), former Canadian comic book artist Jerry
Lazare, cartoonist and animator Gary Leib, comic book artist John Paul Leon, comic
book artist Steve Lightle, British strip editor and letterer Gerald Lip, comic
book and gag cartoonist George Mandel, magazine cartoonist Don Margolis, *“Way up North” comic strip
cartoonist Jayson Martin, Hungarian
animator György Matolcsy, New Orleans cartoonist Bunny Matthews, NPR books
editor Petra Mayer, comic book artist Gonzalo Mayo, British cartoonist Frank
McDiarmid, comic book writer Pat McGreal, Penvy Pages cartoonist Moira
McDonough, gag cartoonist Rod McKie, co-founder and chairman of Andrews McMeel
Universal syndicate John McMeel, artist William Neal McPheeters, editorial
cartoonist Barry McWilliams, Kentaro Miura, Afghan animator Fatima Mohammadi, Sport
Day comic strip cartoonist Bill Morgan, fantasy artist Rowena Morrill, longterm
student newspaper cartoonist Mike Mundt, Afghan animator Tayiba Musavi, animation
layout artist Roy Naisbitt, anime writer Keiko Nobumot, Tetsuji Okamoto, *comics indexer George
Olshevsky, Japanese
animator Yasuo Otsuka, animator Vera Pacheco, Stampede cartoonist Jerry Palen, gag
cartoonist W. B. Park, Straus News contributor Peter Pereira, Italian
cartoonist Tuono Pettinato, Funny Times gag cartoonist Jeff Philcrantz, Canadian
centenarian cartoonist Ernie Poignant, effects animator Kathleen Quaife-Hodge, Swedish
comics writer Claes Reimerthi, German cartoonist and comics historian Reinhold
Reitberger, vampire fantasy writer Anne Rice, all-around cartoonist Ron Rice, Simpsons
producer David Richardson, occasional animation voice actor Peter Mark Richman,
Dark Horse Comics series The Star Wars writer J.W. Rinzler, Sheena actress
Tanya Roberts, Professor Comics Kevin Robinette, Scholastic CEO Richard
Robinson, Brazilian comic book artist Robson Rocha (of COVID-19), *French editorial
cartoonist Robert Rousso, Reynold Ruffins,
pioneering Mexican animator Fernando Ruíz Álvarez, voice actor Will Ryan, Golgo
13 creator Takao Saito, editorial cartoonist Bill Sanders, comic book printing
representative Gabriel Sauro, Italian horror comic book cover artist Enzo
Sciotti, New Yorker cartoonist Danny Shanahan, Jack Kirby assistant and
animator Steve Sherman, Sanpei Shirato, Margaret Shulock, gag and newspaper
cartoonist David Simonson, Benoît Sokal, Canadian voice actor Paul Soles, UK writer
Si Spencer, Hake’s Auctions employee and Disneyana collector Deak Stagemyer, Disney
animation background artist Robert Stanton 'Heavy Metal' model Julie Strain, Japanese
animator Masami Suda, *animator David Schwartz, Chicago editorial cartoonist Keith Taylor, toy designer
for He-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T. Mark Taylor, writer Brandon
Terrell, cartoonist turned Pop Art painter Wayne Thiebaud, Frank Thorne, British
comic book artist Bill Titcombe, Dan Dare comic artist Greta Edwards Tomlinson,
111-yeard old Disney animation supervisor Ruthie Tompson, letterer Bill
Tortolini, former Golden Age comic book cartoonist turned sculptor Louis Trakis,
Brian “Renrut” Turner, Andrew Vachss, Canadian Quebecois underground cartoonist
Henriette Valium aka Patrick Henley, comic book artist Dheeraj Verma, Swedish Mohammed
cartoonist Lars Vilks, editorial cartoonist Clyde Wells, Danish Mohammed
cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, ‘Muriel’ voice actress in ‘Courage the Cowardly
Dog’ Thea White, editorial cartoonist Bob Wilson, underground cartoonist S.
Clay Wilson, G.I. Woes cartoonist Cliff Witkowski, 'D&D' cover artist Robin
Wood, voice actor Samuel E. Wright, animation character designer Derek Wyatt, Japanese
animator Eiichi Yamamoto, Chris Yambar, Marvel colorist Andy Yanchus, Disney
animator Phil Young …
