continue the popular gag comic The Bash Street Kids in The Beano. He will draw the series from 1962 until his death in early 2023. Births October October 31: Don Asmussen, American comics artist (The San Francisco Strip, Bad Reporter, Super Average Joe), (d. 2021) from brain cancer. Deaths January January 13: Ernie Kovacs, American comedian and comics writer (Mad ), dies at age 42 in a car accident. January 22: Jack Patton, American comics artist (Restless Age, Dolly Burns, Spencer Easley), dies at age 61. February February 12: Ding Darling, American cartoonist and comics artist (Taking the Day's Work Home to Be Free From Interruptions, We Could Live Just as Cheaply as Our Fathers, The Great American Sucker, The Musical Career of Tillie Clapsaddle), dies at age 85. February 14: James Crighton, Scottish comics artist (Korky the Cat), passes away at age 70. March March 2: J.F. Horrabin, British comics artist (Japhet and Happy, Dot and Carrie), cartoonist and writer, dies at age 77. March 5: Cornelis Veth, Dutch painter, cartoonist, journalist, writer and illustrator, dies at age 82. April April 18: Don Wootton, American comics artist (Seeing Stars), commits suicide at age 66. April 21: Bob McCay, American comics artist (continued his father's Little Nemo in Slumberland), dies at age 65. Bob Wickersham, American animator and comics artist (American Comics Group (ACG), Timely Comics, Real Screen Comics and Ned Pines Comics), dies at age 50. April 25: Billy Cam, American comics artist (Camouflages), dies at age 70. April 26: Carlos Neve, Mexican comic artist (Segundo I, Rey de Moscabia, Rocambole), dies at age 71–72. May May 12: Dick Calkins, American comics artist (Buck Rogers), dies at age 67. May 22: John H. Striebel, American comics artist (Dixie Dugan), dies at age 79. May 24: Vic Forsythe, American comics artist (Joe Jinks), dies at age 76. June June 21: Tom Webster, British cartoonist (drew sports cartoons), dies at age 76. August August 5: John Willie, British photographer and comics artist (Sweet Gwendoline), dies at age 59. August 7: Mikhail Cheremnykh, Russian caricaturist, painter, illustrator, poster artist and comics artist (Soviet propaganda comics), dies at age 71. September September 17: Harry L. Parkhurst, American illustrator and comics artist (Murder for Exercise, Dear Little Dude), dies at age 86. September 26: George Carlson (Jingle Jangle Comics), American comics artist, dies at age 84 or 85. September 28: Bernardo Marques, Portuguese painter