Real Screen Funnies debuts with a Spring 1945 cover date. The title changes to Real Screen Comics with the second issue (Summer 1945) and features The Fox and the Crow and other Columbia-licensed talking animal characters.[1] - (National Comics)
Wim Meuldijk creates his newspaper comic Ketelbinkie, which will become so popular that it inspires its own magazine.[2]
March 11: The Flemish comics magazine Ons Volkske, whose publication was interrupted at the outbreak of World War II reappears on the market.[7]
March 25: Debut of Bruce Gentry (1945-1951) by Ray Bailey [fr].
March 30: Willy Vandersteen publishes Rikki en Wiske in De Nieuwe Standaard. It's the first Suske en Wiske story and marks the debut of the characters Wiske, Schanulleke and Tante Sidonia, even though his editor renamed the character Suske into Rikki, without his knowledge or approval. After one story Vandersteen will remove Rikki from the series and replace him with the remodelled character Suske.[8]
May 17: The Flemish newspaper De Zondagsvriend launches a children's supplement magazine, De Kleine Zondagsvriend, which will offer room for several comics series. It will run until 18 December 1963.[10]
The Riddle of the Red Hat, in Four Color comics, which is the only Mickey Mouse story drawn by Carl Barks.
Juneedit
June 1: Debut of Valiant, le jeune patriote, weekly magazine for children published by the PCF ; the first issue contains the first chapter of a comic about French Resistance (Fifi, gars du maquis by Roger Lecureux and Auguse Liquois). In the year the magazine launches also the humoristic comics Les Aventures de R. Hudi junior et de Nitrate by Eugene Gire and Placid et Muzo by Josè Cabrero Amai.
In Milan the publishing house Audace, after the break due to the war, restart publishing. It’s again a family run company: Tea Bonelli is the editor, her estranged husband Gian Luigi the writer and their thirteen year old son Sergio the delivery and warehouse boy.[12] Simultaneously, Gian Luigi Bonelli launches, in the Genoa magazine Il cowboy, a new character, the Tarzanesque Yorga.[13]
Octoberedit
October 7: In Il Vittorioso the first chapter of Pippo in montagna (Pippo in the mountains) by Benito Jacovitti makes its debut. This is the first story starring the master criminal Zagar, antagonist of Cip.[14]
October 15: The first issue of the Dutch comics magazine Stripfilm is published. It also offers information about animation techniques, provided by the animation studio Stripfilm.[15] The magazine will last until 23 November.[16]
October 22: The first episode of Phiny Dick's Olle Kapoen is published. Coen van Hunnik provides artwork but is later replaced by Richard Klokkers. The series will run until 15 November 1955.[17]
October 26: In the Italian Fulmine giornale the first chapter of La legione del mistero (The mystery legion) by Andrea Lavezzolo and Carlo Cossio is published, which marks the return of detective Dick Fulmine. Although he was previously at the service of Fascist propaganda he is now recycled as a democratic hero and cuts down a neo-Nazi gang, led by a revived Adolf Hitler.
Belgian comics publisher Fernand Cheneval founds the first issue of the comics magazine Heroïc Albums. It will run until December 1956.[18]
On the French magazine Clic-Clac Images, Uderzo debuts as cartoonist with Flamberge gentilhomme gascon.
December 11: Dutch comics artists Pieter Kuhn and Evert Werkman's first publish Kapitein Rob (1945-1966) in Het Parool.
December 15: after a four-year interruption, due to the Fascist censure, the magazine Topolino comes back in Italian newsstands.[19] The same day, first issue of La Gazzetta dei piccoli (The little ones’ gazette), supplement for kids of Gazzetta del popolo.
December 19: The story Op Het Eiland Amoras starts in De Nieuwe Standaard. This marks the first official Suske en Wiske story by Willy Vandersteen. New character Suske is already shown in the announcement strips, but will only make his official debut halfway the story when Wiske meets him at the Isle of Amoras.[8] At the start of the story Professor Barabas also makes his debut.
December 27: Marc Sleen's series Piet Fluwijn introduces a new character, namely Fluwijn's son, Bolleke. From that moment on the series is renamed: Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke.[22]
December 27: Marten Toonder's Kappie makes its debut. It will run in the papers until 12 July 1972.[23]
January 21: Eugène Damblans, aka Eugène Damblanc, Uruguayan-French painter and comics artist, dies at age 79.[29]
Specific date unknown: George Hager, American comics artist (continued Dok's Dippy Duck as The Adventures of Waddles), dies at age 59 or 60.[5]
Februaryedit
February 13: Russell Keaton, American comics artist (Flyin' Jenny), dies at age 35 of acute melanoma.[30]
Marchedit
March 20: Johannes Franciscus Nuijens (Korporaal Achilles), Dutch teacher and comics artist (Het Rapport der Defensiecommissie toegelicht en eenigszins uitgebreid door Korporaal Achilles, De Toekomststaat (Een Nachtmerrie Fin de Siècle). Visioenen en Droombeelden uit de 20ste eeuw, Klacht van een Onderwijzer over De Vrije & Orde Oefeningen op de Lagere School and Aanleiding tot den Engelsch-Transvaalschen Oorlog), dies at age 78.[31]
March 31: Gaietà Cornet, Spanish caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 66.[32]
Apriledit
April 25: Jack Wilhelm, American comics artist (Meet the Misses, That Certain Party, Frank Merriwell's Schooldays), dies at age 42.[33]
April 30: Erich Schilling, German cartoonist, illustrator and comics artist, commits suicide at age 60.[34]
Juneedit
June 27: Harry James Westerman, American comic artist (The Dinkelspiels), dies at age 68.[35]
Septemberedit
September 21: Moses Koenigsberg, American journalist, after whom the comics syndicate King Features was named, dies from a heart attack at age 67.[36]
Octoberedit
October 23: Louis Moe, Norwegian-Danish illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 88.[37]
Novemberedit
November 20: Loy Byrnes, American comic artist (Silly Willie, Spunkie, Punchy & Judy, continued Streaky, assisted on Nancy), dies at age 38 or 39.[38]
Decemberedit
December 25: Oscar Jacobsson, Swedish comics artist (Adamson, known in English as Silent Sam), dies at age 56.[39]
December 29: André Hellé, French illustrator and comics artist, dies at age 74.[40]
December 30: Jack McGuire, American comics artist (Jane Arden, The Red Knight), dies at age 40.[41]
Specific date unknownedit
Frank Holland, British comics artist (Those Terrible Twins), dies at age 73.[42]
Herbert Rothgaengel, German comics artist and illustrator, dies at an unknown age.[43]
Albi Uragano, (December), care of the so-called "group of Venice" (Alberto Omgaro, Dino Battaglia, Hugo Pratt) ; from the second number, it changes name in Asso di Picche (see over).[44]
^"Pippo in montagna, il trio creato da Jacovitti alle prese con un intreccio giallo". www.slumberland.it. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
^"Stripfilm". www.lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^"Piet van Elk - Lambiek Comiclopedia". Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^"Phiny Dick - Lambiek Comiclopedia". Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^"Fernand Cheneval". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^"Le notizie del 15 dicembre 1945". www.cinquantamila.it. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
^Van Hooydonck, Peter (March 1994). Biografie Willy Vandersteen. De Bruegel van het beeldverhaal (in Dutch) (2nd ed.). Antwerp: Standaard Uitgeverij. page 60.
^"Willy Vandersteen - Lambiek Comiclopedia". Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^"Marc Sleen". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^"Marten Toonder". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^"Arno van Dijk". lambiek.net. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
^"Russell Keaton - Lambiek Comiclopedia". Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^"Korporaal Achilles". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^"Gaietà Cornet". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^"Jack Wilhelm". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^"Erich Schilling". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^"Erich Schilling". lambiek.net. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
^"KOENIGSBERG DIES; NEWSPAPER EXPERT; Former Hearst Executive Was Founder of King Features-- Began Career When 9 Took Prize for Essay Decoration Returned". The New York Times. Sep 22, 1945. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
^"Louis Moe". lambiek.net. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
^"Loy Byrnes". lambiek.net. Retrieved January 29, 2023.
^"Oscar Jacobsson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 18, 2020.