Today in the history of the American comic strip: July 13

American cartoonists and writers may not have invented the comic strip, but some argue that the comics, as we know them today, are an American creation. Clearly, the United States has played an outsize role in the development of this underappreciated art form.

7.13.1952: Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales, which featured stories adapted from various Disney films, debuts. It survived for 35 years, but ran in relatively few newspapers.
 

7.13.2008: Redeye, a strip about a tribe of 19th-century Native Americans, ends its run. Created by Gordon Bess, it remained in print for four decades.

7.13.2015: Berkeley Breathed revives the discontinued Bloom County, this time as an online strip. It ran in newspapers from 1980 to 1989.

 

Bloom County

Most of the information listed here from one day to the next comes from two online sites -- Wikipedia, and Don Markstein's Toonopedia -- as well as 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics, edited by Maurice Horn. Note that my focus is on American newspaper comic strips (and the occasional foreign strip that gained popularity in the United States). Thus, comic books and exclusively online comics are not included here.