2010 in comics

Events

February

• February 18: Jim Lee and Dan DiDio announced as the new co-publishers of DC Comics, replacing Paul Levitz.

  April

• April 20: Cartoonist Molly Norris creates the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day cartoon, in response to the controversy over the South Park episodes 200 and 201 . She gets involved in a media frenzy, with death threats and her name eventually appearing on Al-Qaeda's hitlist for people deemed acceptable for assassination. Since then she kept a low profile.

  May

• May 29: In Gouda a museum dedicated to Hans G. Kresse opens its doors.

  July

• July 18: Publication of the first issue of the Kodansha shōjo manga magazine Aria.

  September

• September 9: The play Cheapjack Shakespeare, based on the comic of the same name, debuts in Buffalo, New York.
• September 25-26: During the Stripdagen in Houten, the Netherlands, Jesse van Muylwijck wins the Stripschapprijs. Ger van Wulften wins the P. Hans Frankfurtherprijs. Rupert van der Linden wins the Bulletje en Boonestaakschaal during the same event.

  December

• DC Comics shuts down its WildStorm imprint.

  Specific date unknown

• The Digital Comic Museum is founded.
• The Stan Lee Foundation for literacy is created.
• Bongo Comics drops the Comics Code Authority seal.

  Deaths

January

• January 2: Marion Hull Hammel, American art teacher, illustrator and comics artist, passes away at age 87.
• January 3: Tibet, French comics artist ), dies at age 78.
• January 3: Barry Blair, Canadian comics artist passes away at age 55.
• January 21: Jacques Martin, French comics artist, dies at age 88.
• January 25: Bill Ritchie, American comics artist, passes away at age 78.
• January 26: John Dirks, American comics artist, dies at age 92.

  February

• February 4: Te Wei, Chinese comics artist and animator, dies at age 94.
• February 11: Marvin Stein, American comics artist, animator and illustrator, dies at age 85.
• February 26: Violet Barclay, American comics artist, dies at age 87.

  March

• March 6: Don Sherwood, American comics artist, dies at age 79.
• March 11: Turhan Selçuk, Turkish cartoonist, dies at age 87.
• March 12: Timo Aarniala, Finnish comics artist and film director, dies at age 64.
• March 12: Glauco Villas Boas, Brazilian comics artist, illustrator, rock artist and religious leader, is murdered at age 52.
• March 19: John Hicklenton, British comics artist, commits euthanasia at age 42 after suffering from multiple sclerosis.
• March 27: Dick Giordano, American comics artist dies at age 77.

  April

• April 4: Henry Scarpelli, American comics artist, dies at the age of 79.
• April 15: Bill DuBay, American horror comics editor, writer, and artist, dies at age 62.
• April 27: Kees Kousemaker, Dutch comics store owner, publisher, writer and founder of the comics store, Lambiek, as well as establisher of the online encyclopedia Comiclopedia, dies at age 68.

  May

• May 3: Peter O'Donnell, British comics writer, dies at the age of 90.
• May 10: Frank Frazetta, American comics artist and illustrator, passes away, aged 82.
• May 15: Juan José Carbo Gatignol, Spanish comics artist, dies at age 83.
• May 16: Philippe Bertrand, French comics artist, dies at age 61
• May 22: Howard Post, American comics artist dies at age 83.
• May 25: Gabriel Vargas, Mexican comics artist, passes away at age 95.

  June

• June 2: Tony DiPreta, American comics artist dies at age 88.
• June 2: Antonio Parras, Spanish comics artist, dies at age 81
• June 12: Al Williamson, American comics artist and inker, dies at age 79.
• June 13: Hua Junwu, Chinese comics artist, dies at age 95.
• June 19: Ken Muse, American cartoonist and comics artist, dies at age 75.
• June 23: Joe Messerli, American comics artist , dies at age 79 or 80.

  July

• July 2: Víctor de la Fuente, Spanish comics writer and artist, dies at age 83.
• July 12: Harvey Pekar, American comics writer, dies at age 70.
• July 24: John Callahan, American cartoonist, dies at age 59.

  August

• August 6: Ted Rawlings, British comics artist, dies at age 79.
• August 16: Peter Wienk, Dutch comics artist, illustrator and painter, dies at age 89.
• August 24: Satoshi Kon, Japanese manga artist and animator, dies at age 46 from pancreatic cancer.
• August 28: Roger Mas, French comics artist, dies at age 86.

  September

• September 10: Paul Conrad, American political cartoonist, dies at age 86.
• September 19: Stuart Hample, American playwright, children's book author, cartoonist and comics artist, dies at age 84.
• September 28: Dani Aguila, Philippine comics artist, dies at age 82.
• Specific date unknown: Bob Gibson, British caricaturist and comics artist, passes away at age 71 or 72.

  October

• October 6: Piet Wijn, Dutch comics artist, passes away at age 81.
• October 9: Jim Seed, American comics artist and illustrator, passes away at the age of 83.
• October 24: Mike Esposito, American comics artist dies at age 83.
• October 25: Buth, Belgian comics artist, dies at age 91.
• October 27: Don Donahue, American comics publisher, dies at age 68.

  November

• November 6: Peter Vos, Dutch comics artist and illustrator, dies from cancer at age 75.

  December

• December 8: Onno Docters van Leeuwen, Dutch graphic designer and illustrator, passes away at age 69.
• December 12: Marc Henniquiau, Kio, Belgian comics artist, dies at age 52.

  Specific date unknown

• Andre Harvec, French comics artist, dies at age 91 or 92.
• Valentin Rozantsev, Russian cartoonist and comics artist, passes away at age 70 or 71.

  Exhibitions

• February 25 – May 30: Whitney Museum of American Art — Whitney Biennial features art by Robert Williams
• May 1–June 6: Twenty-Two lounge/gallery — Super! The Fine Art of Comics, curated by Shelton Drum, with original art by Steve Ditko, Adam Hughes, Brian Stelfreeze, Michael Golden, Joe Jusko, Cully Hamner, Mark Brooks, and Mark Texeira.
• October 1, 2010 – January 30, 2011: Cartoon Art Museum — Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women, curated by Michael Kaminer and Sarah Lightman, featuring Vanessa Davis, Bernice Eisenstein, Sarah Glidden, Miriam Katin, Miss Lasko-Gross, Sarah Lazarovic, Miriam Libicki, Sarah Lightman, Diane Noomin, Corinne Pearlman, Trina Robbins, Rachell Rottner, Sharon Rudahl, Laurie Sandell, Ariel Schrag, Lauren Weinstein, and Ilana Zeffren. Show later traveled to New York; Toronto; Washington, DC; Miami Beach; Portland, Oregon; and Columbus, Ohio.
• December 2–January 2, 2011: Floating World Comics — Spacenight2: A Tribute to Bill Mantlo, a fundraiser exhibition and auction of Rom the Spaceknight illustrations, by such creators as Mike Allred, Jeffrey Brown, Michael DeForge, Tan Eng Huat, Jon Schnepp, and Matt Timson.

  Conventions

• January 28–31: Angoulême International Comics Festival
• January 30–31: Dallas Comic Con 14 — guests include Tim Sale, Adam Hughes, Todd Nauck, Brad W. Foster, Ben Dunn, Michael Golden, Harold LeDoux, Cal Slayton, and many more
• February 5–6: What the Hell?! Con
• March 6: STAPLE!
• March 12–14: MegaCon — guests include Marv Wolfman, George Pérez, Lea Thompson, Claudia Wells, Nichelle Nichols, Jeremy Bulloch, and Peter Mayhew
• March 13–14: Emerald City ComiCon — 20,000 attendees; guests: Joe Quesada, Geoff Johns, Brian Azzarello, Jhonen Vasquez, Brian Michael Bendis, Mike Allred, Whilce Portacio, James Robinson, Doug Mahnke, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau, Matt Kindt, Steve Rolston, G. Willow Wilson, Colleen Coover, Aaron Lopresti, Tim Bradstreet, Joe Casey, Steven T. Seagle, J. H. Williams III, Tim Sale, Alex Maleev, Kurt Busiek, Timothy Green II, Jim Rugg, David Hahn, Chris Roberson, Christina Strain, Paul Tobin, David Mack, Michael Golden, Brandon Jerwa, Jo Chen, Ed Brubaker, Darick Robertson, Rick Remender, Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber, Jeff Parker, Brandon Graham, Jason Pearson, Sterling Gates, Mike Norton, Dave Stewart, Mark Texeira, Kevin Maguire, John Layman, Dave Kellett, Ryan Ottley, C. B. Cebulski, Phil Hester, Michael Avon Oeming, Dustin Nguyen, Terry Moore, Pete Tomasi, Clayton Crain, Ben McCool, Richard Starkings, Philip Tan, Jeff Lemire, Scott Kurtz, Jill Thompson, Andy Runton, Aaron Lopresti, Barry Kitson, Greg Rucka, Josh Ortega, Ben Templesmith, Scott Allie, J.J. Kirby, Steve Sadowski, Kris Straub, Brian Haberlin, Brad Guigar, Eric Basaldua, Len Wein, Michael Broussard, Tim Seeley, and Mark Waid
• March 26–28: Wizard World Toronto — first iteration of Wizard's acquisition of the Toronto Comicon
• March 27–28: Hi-Ex — guests include Charlie Adlard, Asia Alfasi, Gary Erskine, Simon Fraser, John Higgins, Cam Kennedy, Gary Northfield, and Kev F. Sutherland
• April 2–4: WonderCon
• April 10–11: MoCCA Festival
• April 16–18: Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo — inaugural event; 20,000–30,000 attendees
• April 23–25: Pittsburgh Comicon — guests include Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Joe Sinnott, Ernie Chan, Herb Trimpe, Gary Friedrich, Talent Caldwell, Eric Basaldua, Margot Kidder, and Camden Toy
• April 24–25: Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo
• April 24–25: Stumptown Comics Fest
• May 8–9: Toronto Comic Arts Festival
• May 14–16: Motor City Comic Con — guests include Linda Blair, Lindsay Wagner, and Adam West
• May 14–15: East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention — guests include Eric Battle, Reggie Byers, Shawn Martinbrough, and Larry Stroman
• May 22–23: Comic Expo — 1,000+ attendees ; guests include Richard Starkings, Kieron Gillen, Paul Grist, Charlie Adlard, and Ian Churchill.
• May 28–30: Adventure Con — featured guest of honor: Gary Friedrich
• May 28–30: Phoenix Comicon
• May 28–30: Rockin' Pasadena Comic Con — guests include Stan Lee
• June 4–6: Heroes Convention — guests include Bob Almond, Mark Bagley, Liz Baillie, Kate Beaton, John Beatty, Christian Beranek, Brian Bolland, Mark Brooks, Richard Case, Bernard Chang, Sean Chen, Cliff Chiang, Frank Cho, Colleen Coover, Jeremy Dale, Guy Davis, Vito Delsante, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Nathan Edmondson, Tommy Lee Edwards, Tom Fowler, Francesco Francavilla, Gary Friedrich, Christos Gage, John Gallagher, Michael Golden, Meredith Gran, Keron Grant, Cully Hamner, Scott Hampton, Tony Harris, Christopher Hastings, Clayton Henry, Adam Hughes, Jamal Igle, Matt Kindt, Roger Langridge, Jason Latour, John Paul Leon, Rick Leonardi, Alec Longstreth, Laura Martin, Nathan Massengill, Mike McKone, Christopher Moeller, Sean Gordon Murphy, Dustin Nguyen, Ryan North, Mike Norton, Phil Noto, James O'Barr, Dan Parent, Brandon Peterson, Ed Piskor, Dave Roman, Budd Root, Don Rosa, Stéphane Roux, Jim Rugg, Chris Samnee, Jim Scancarelli, Tom Spurgeon, Joe Staton, Brian Stelfreeze, Karl Story, Raina Telgemeier, Ben Templesmith, Mark Texeira, Jill Thompson, William Tucci, Ethan Van Sciver, Noah Van Sciver, Dexter Vines, Michael W. Watkins, Bill Willingham, Skottie Young, and Chrissie Zullo
• June 5–6: Toronto ComiCON Fan Appreciation Event
• July 17–18: London Film and Comic Con
• July 22–25: Comic-Con International — 130,000+ attendees; guests: Neal Adams, Josh Adams, Sergio Aragonés, Peter Bagge, Gabrielle Bell, Brian Michael Bendis, Ray Bradbury, Émile Bravo, Berkeley Breathed, Kurt Busiek, Chris Claremont, Howard Cruse, Vanessa Davis, Felicia Day, Samuel R. Delany, Dave Dorman, Mark Evanier, Jon Favreau, Matt Fraction, Hunter Freberg, Stan Freberg, Nicholas Gurewitch, Moto Hagio, Charlaine Harris, Tanya Huff, Kathryn Immonen, Stuart Immonen, Phil Jimenez, Jenette Kahn, Keith Knight, Jim Lee, Stan Lee, Paul Levitz, Milo Manara, Larry Marder, Carla Speed McNeil, China Miéville, Dennis O'Neil, Robert M. Overstreet, Tom Palmer, Sean Phillips, Ivan Reis, Douglas E. Richards, Rick Riordan, Jerry Robinson, Steve Rude, Jeannie Schulz, J. Michael Straczynski, Drew Struzan, James Sturm, Jillian Tamaki, Doug TenNapel, C. Tyler, Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer, Gerard Way, Al Wiesner, Michael Zulli, and more
• July 31–August 1: CAPTION: "Mad Science"
• August 19–22: Wizard World Chicago — guests: William Shatner, Linda Hamilton, James Marsters, Linda Blair, Nicholas Brendon, Clare Kramer, Claudia Christian, Richard Roundtree, Julia Jones, Joe Madureira, Michael Golden, Arthur Suydam, Brian Pulido, and David Mack
• August 27–29: Fan Expo Canada — 64,000 attendees; guests include William Shatner, Adam West, Burt Ward, Julie Newmar, James Marsters, Stan Lee, Felicia Day, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Michael Dorn, Peter Mayhew, Bruce Boxleitner, David Blue, Summer Glau, Michelle Forbes, Tahmoh Penikett, Dean Stockwell, Daniel Cudmore, Ernest Borgnine, Ryan Robbins, David Cronenberg, Lance Henriksen, Ken Russell, Bill Moseley, William Forsythe, Heather Langenkamp, El Hijo Del Santo, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Anna Silk, Charles Band, Gary Frank, Andy Kubert, Adam Kubert, Olivier Coipel, Steve McNiven, Ethan Van Sciver, Doug Mahnke, Dan DiDio, C.B. Cebulski, Brian Azzarello, Darwyn Cooke, Bob Layton, Tim Bradstreet, Alex Maleev, Ian Churchill, Jill Thompson, Jim Valentino, Chris Sprouse, Yanick Paquette, Cameron Stewart, Jeff Lemire, Yoshitaka Amano, Ogata Megumi, Vic Mignogna, Johnny Yong Bosch, Brad Swaile, Jamie Marchi, Jason Deline, Victor Lucas, Scott Jones, Tommy Tallarico, Jarett Cale, Geoff Lapaire, Ed Greenwood, Robin D. Laws, Casts of Todd and the Book of Pure Evil,, Lost Girl, Dark Rising,, I Spit On Your Grave, Durham County, Pure Pwnage, Electric Playground, and Reviews on the Run
• August 28–29: Baltimore Comic-Con
• August 28–29: Dallas Comic Con 15 — guests include Keith Pollard, Adam Warren, Angel Medina, Pat Broderick, June Brigman, Roy Richardson, Kerry Gammill, Kez Wilson, Ben Dunn, Josh Howard, Joe Eisma, Steve Erwin, John Lucas, Brian Denham, Andre Mangum, David Hopkins, Cal Slayton, Richard Dominguez, Lawrence Reynolds, Anthony Tollin, and others
• September 3–6: Dragon Con — 30,000+ attendees; featured guests: Stan Lee and Neal Adams, other guests include Sherilyn Kenyon, Scott Bakula, Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, Luke Perry, Tom Savini, John Zaffis, and Donato Giancolo
• September 10–11: Small Press Expo
• September 11–12: Montreal Comiccon — 8,300 attendees; guests include: Brent Spiner, Billy Dee Williams, Peter Mayhew, Ethan Van Sciver, Darick Robertson, Leonard Kirk, Herb Trimpe, Dale Eaglesham, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Larry Hama, Tim Sale, and Kirby Morrow
• September 14–18: Jornadas de Cómic
• October 1–3: Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con
• October 8–10: Komikazen — guests include Igort, Apostolos Doxiadis, Maxilimilen Le Roy, Alecos Papadatos, and Aleksandar Zograf
• October 8–10: New York Comic Con
• October 16–17: Alternative Press Expo
• October 30–31: Detroit FanFare — guest of honor: Stan Lee; other guests include Jim Starlin, Carl Lundgren, Guy Davis, Mark Crilley, and Vince Locke
• October 29–31: Manitoba Comic Con — guests include Garrett Wang, Orli Shoshan
• November 6–7: Mid-Ohio Con — 30th anniversary show
• November 20–22: Convencion de Juegos de Mesa y Comics - guests include Edgar Delgado and musical group Aural Vampire
• November 27: Genghis Con — guests include Derf, Gary Dumm, and Greg Budgett

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