May 6: Ionaldo Cavalcanti, Brazilian painter, comics artist (Crimes que Abalaram São Paulo ("Crimes that shook São Paulo")), and comics scholar (O Mundo dos Quadrinhos, Esses incríveis heróis de papel), dies at age 57 or 59.[35]
July 23: Đorđe Lobačev, Russian-Serbian comics artist and illustrator (Gospodar Smrti), dies at age 93.[44]
July 25: Lucia Pamela, American outsider musician and illustrator (made a colouring book to go along with the narrative of her music album Into Outer Space with Lucia Pamela In The Year 2000), dies at age 98.[45]
August 13: Flavio Colin, Brazilian comics artist (Sepé, Vizunga, Mulher-Diaba no rastro de Lampião, O Boi das Aspas de Ouro and Estórias Gerais), dies at age 72.[47]
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September 7: Len Dworkins, American comics artist (assisted on Draftie and Wade Cabot and continued Buck Rogers and Skyroads), dies at age 80.[48]
October 5–6: FallCon 2002 ( Education Building at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, Bloomington, Minnesota USA) — sponsored by the Minnesota Comic Book Association Archived 2016-09-09 at the Wayback Machine
October 6: Capital Associates Monthly Comic, Toy & CCG Show (Tysons Westpark Hotel, McLean, Virginia USA) — 400 attendees
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