2007 in comics

Events

January

• January 10: Superman & Batman vs. Aliens & Predator released.January 16: Dutch cartoonist Willem wins the Inktspotprijs for Best Political Cartoon.
• January 24: The Boys is canceled with issue #6.
• Red Menace by Jerry Ordway and Adam Brody
• Batman/The Spirit by Jeph Loeb
• Bullet points by J. Michael Straczynski and Tommy Lee Edwards
• The Order of the Stones by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Meziéres, 30th album of the Valerian series.

February

• February 2: Newsarama reports that The Boys has been picked up by Dynamite Entertainment.February 5: Gerben Valkema's comic strip Elsje makes its debut.
• February 7: The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born by Peter David and Jae Lee
• February 28: Release of 2000 AD prog #1526. This is the 30th anniversary issue and will see the start of three new storylines: Flesh, Nikolai Dante and Savage
• The final issue of Cracked is published.100 dollars Pour Mourir by Francois Corteggiani and Michel Blanc Dumont, 16th album of the Bluberry's youth series.
• In Italy, the fantasy series Lys makes its debut, written by Katja Centomo. It is interrupted after 8 issues.

March

• With issue #215, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight is cancelled by DC.
• The webcomic Crying Macho Man is collected in a print edition.
• First issue of the Italian fantasy series Angel's Friends, by Bruno Enna and Giada Perissinotto.

April

• In the DC universe, The Lightning Saga arc begins.World war III by Keith Champagne and John Ostrander The Trenchcoat Brigade by John Ney Rieber and John Ridgway Dimmi Che Non Vuoi Morire graphic novel by Massimo Carlotto and Igort, part of the series about the private eye “Alligator”.

May

• First issue of The Astounding wolf-man, by Robert Kirkman and Jason Howard Rides – graphic novel by Paco Roca about the old age and the Alzehimer's disease.On Tue Au Théâtre Ce Soir by Andrè Paul Duchateau and Tibet, 73th album of the Ric Hochet series.Les Trois Yeux des gardiens du Tao by Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Francq, 15th album of the Largo Winch series

June

• June 16: Dragonero fantasy by Luca Enoch, Stefano Vietti and Giuseppe Matteoni, first album of the series Romanzi a fumetti Bonelli. Later, a comic series and a novel one were born from the album.
• In the Green Lantern titles, the Sinestro corps war arc begins.Fallen son: The death of Captain America by Jeph Loeb and various artists X-Men: Endangered Species by Mike Carey and Scot Eaton.Impeesa by Paolo Fizzarotti and Ivo Milazzo – biography of Robert Baden-Powell, published for the 100th anniversary of the scouting.

July

• In Nathan Never comics, the so-called “space-time saga”, written by Stefano Vietti, begins: a falling space wreck destroys the megalopolis depicted in the series.

August

• In the Marvel Universe, the crossover Annihilation: Conquest begins.
• In the Top Cow universe, the arc First born, written by Ron Marz, begins; Sara Pezzini and Jackie Estacado give birth to a little girl, Hope, who reunites the powers of Witchblade and The Darkness.
• In Kuwait, first issue of The 99, by Naif Al-Mutawa.
• First issue of Dylan Dog color fest; it's the first integrally color series published by Sergio Bonelli.

September

October

• October 2: Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin and Giovanni Rigano
• October 10: The Best American series releases the second The Best American Comics publication. The collection is edited by Chris Ware and Anne Elizabeth Moore.
• October 10: Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
• October 10 : First issue of  Volto Nascosto by Gianfranco Manfredi October 20: The final episode of Posy Simmonds' Tamara Drewe is published.
• October 30: Zuda Comics, a webcomics imprint of DC Comics, launches.
• October 31: Gli occhi e il buio – a period thriller by Gigi Simeoni, about the hunt for a serial killer in Milan at the beginning of the 20th century

November

• November 2: In Strasbourg the Tomi Ungerer Museum opens.
• November 9: The Folger Shakespeare Library hosts Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel, and Chris Ware in a discussion on graphic novels as a part of the PEN/Faulkner Reading Series.
• November 21: The first episode of Signe Wilkinson's Family Tree is published. It will run until 2011.
• November 28: The graphic novel Cherubs! by Bryan Talbot is published by Desperado Publishing.

December

• December 11: Mike Le begins publishing the "Don't Forget To Validate Your Parking" webcomic.
• The final episode of Tumbleweeds is published.

Specific date unknown

• Gary Panter releases an updated version of his 1992 graphic novel Dal Tokyo.

Deaths

January

February

• * Alfio Consoli, Italian comics artist, dies at age 61.
• * Bob Oksner, American comics artist, dies at age 90.

March

April

May

June

• * Giovanni Boselli, Italian comics artist, dies at age 83.
• * Pil, Belgian cartoonist, dies at age 82.June 28: Howie Schneider, American comics artist, dies at age 77 from complications from heart bypass surgery.

July

August

September

• * George Crenshaw, American comics artist and animator, dies at age 89.
• * Ian Gray, British comics writer, dies at age 69 from a heart attack.September 7: Ruben Sosa, Argentinian comic artist, dies at age 67.September 13: Phil Frank, American comics artist, dies at age 64 from a brain tumor.September 14: Horst Klöpfel, German comics artist and painter, dies at age 82 or 83.September 28: Jan van der Aa, aka Punt, Belgian painter, cartoonist and comics artist, dies at age 80.

October

• * Manfred Sommer, Spanish comics artist, dies at age 74.
• * Elmer Wexler, American illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 89.October 5: Josette Macherot, wife of Raymond Macherot and colorist of his comics, dies at age 77.October 15: Manny Curtis, British comic artist, dies at age 72. October 20: Peg Bracken, American writer and comics writer, dies at age 89.

November

December

• * Eduard De Rop, Belgian comics artist, dies at age 79.
• * James Kemsley, Australian comics artist, dies at age 59.December 8: Al Scaduto, American comics artist, dies at age 58.December 14: Dave Gantz, American cartoonist, novelist and sculptor, dies at age 85.December 23: Raphaël Carlo Marcello, also known as Ralph Marc, Italian comics artist, dies at age 78.December 25: Gualtiero Schiaffino, aka Skiaffino, Italian comics artist, dies at age 54.December 27: Wim Meuldijk, Dutch TV writer and comics artist, dies at age 85.

Specific date unknown

• Herbert Geldhof, aka Herbert, Belgian comics artist, dies at age 77 or 78.
• Hui Guan-man, Chinese comics artist, dies at age 70.

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