Portal:Comics/Anniversaries/May/May 12

• 1842: birth of Josep Lluís Pellicer, Spanish painter, illustrator, and cartoonist
• 1915: birth of Tony Strobl, American comics artist best known for his work on many Disney comics
• 1942: death of George William Wakefield, British comics artist and illustrator, best remembered for his Laurel and Hardy comics
• 1947: birth of catherine yronwode, American writer about comics, known for her work The Art of Will Eisner
• 1950: birth of Tom Armstrong, American cartoonist and the creator of the daily newspaper comic strip Marvin
• 1954: birth of Neil D. Vokes, American writer and artist, co-founder of now-defunct Crystal Comics
• 1962: death of Dick Calkins, American comic strip artist, best known for being the first artist to draw the Buck Rogers comic strip
• 2004: death of Syd Hoff, American comic strip creator best known for Tuffy
• 2012: death of Eddy Paape, Belgian comics artist best known for co-creating and illustrating the series Luc Orient