2025: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed – Part Three: The Dearly Departed
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This is an installment of 2025 U.S. Newspaper Comics: Debuts, Departures, and the Dearly Departed.
(part 1: Debuts and Departures – – part 2: Detours and Deviations – – part 3: The Dearly Departed)
THE DEARLY DEPARTED
These North American newspaper and magazine cartoonists died in 2025.
David Lynch
January 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025
movie and television writer/producer, painter animator
comic strip: The Angriest Dog in the World
Jules Feiffer
January 26, 1929 – January 17, 2025
cartoonist, playwright, author, graphic novelist
comic strips: The Spirit
Clifford
Sick, Sick, Sick/Feiffer
Clyde Peterson
May 7, 1942 – January 20, 2025
editorial cartoonist: Houston Chronicle,
Register & Tribune Syndicate/Cowles,
Paris (Tenn) Post-Intelligencer
Doug Sneyd
December 14, 1931 – January 21, 2025
magazine cartoonist, editorial cartoonist, illustrator
comic strip: Scoops
comic panels: Doug Sneyd
Wee Whimsy
Mort Künstler
August 28, 1927 – February 2, 2025
magazine, book, and movie poster illustrator; historical painter
comic books (Classic Illustrated and MAD covers)
Jerry Eisenberg
December 14, 1937 – February 11, 2025
animation artist
comic strips: Yogi Bear
The Flintstones
Ronald Stanfield
September 2, 1937 – February 26, 2025
gag cartoonist
comic panel: Snavely
Ed Berdej
January 13, 1961 – March 2, 2025
Daily Record artist; comic books
comic strip: Archie (gagman)
comic panel: The New Breed
Al Wiesner
July 2, 1930 – March 4, 2025
comic book: Shaloman
comic panel: The Wiesner View
John Peck (The Mad Peck)
November 16, 1942 – March 15, 2025
illustrator; poster artist
underground newspaper cartoonist and illustrator
comic strip: Burn of the Week
Flash Burn Funnies
Hy Eisman
March 27, 1927 – March 27, 2025
comic book artist and writer; teacher
comic strips: Popeye
The Katzenjammer Kids
Little Iodine
Bringing Up Father
Mutt and Jeff
Kerry Drake
It Happened in N.J.
Brad Holland
October 16, 1943 – March 27, 2025
magazine cartoonist; newspaper illustrator
Tod Smith
October 4, 1952 – April 4, 2025
comic book artist
comic strip: Zorro
Edward Medina
October 13, 1929 – April 6, 2025
The Latin Times editorial cartoonist
Gretchen Dow Simpson
May 17, 1939 – April 11, 2025
painter; magazine artist
Yaakov Kirschen
March 8, 1938 – April 14, 2025
comic books (Cracked)
comic strips: Adam an’ …
Dry Bones
Mark Zingarelli
July 11, 1952 – April 18, 2025
New Yorker cover
comic strip: Eatin’ Out with Eddie
Jack Katz
September 27, 1927 – April 24, 2025
comic books; King Features Syndicate staff
comic strip: Galactic Prime
Ralph Alan Schlegel
August 5, 1930 – May 1, 2025
commercial artist; magazine illustrator
Sunday political cartoonist for The Trenton Times
Arnold Arnam
June 7, 1934 – June 20, 2025
Chicgao Tribune staff graphic artist and illustrator
Laurie Gambill Myers
April10, 1952 – June 23, 2025
newspaper illustrator and graphic artist
Spokane Chronicle, The Spokane Spokesman-Review
Jim Shooter
September 27, 1951 – June 30, 2025
comic book writer, editor
comic strip: The Amazing Spider-Man (plots, breakdowns)
Steve Benson
January 2, 1954 – July 8, 2025
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist
Arizona Republic, Tacoma Morning News Tribune, Arizona Mirror
Christian Daigle
1963 – August 1, 2025
graphic designer, illustrator, sculptor
Le Soleil (Quebec) editorial cartoonist
Mort Todd
November 9, 1961 – August 24, 2025
comic books, comic magazine (Cracked)
comic strips: Speed Racer
Celebrity Biografix
Molly the Model
Tim Eagan
May 3, 1944 – August 25, 2025
editorial cartoonist
comic strips: Deep Cover
Subconscious Comics
Tony D’Adamo
June 12, 1931 – September 15, 2025
newspaper and magazine illustrator, comic books
comic panel: Laws Long Ago
Charles Criner
November 27, 1945 – September 17, 2025
Houston Post advertising art department, painter
comic strips: Johnny Jones
The Job Crowd
The Dogs
Ashleigh Brilliant
December 9, 1933 – September 24, 2025
author, cartoonist, “professional epigrammatist”
comic panels: Pot-Shots
Brilliant Thoughts
Tom Flannagan
March 31, 1932 – October 19, 2025
golf columnist
Staten Island Advance editorial cartoonist
comic features: Tom Flannagan’s Sketchbook
Community Capers
Tom Bone
September 11, 1954 – October 20, 2025
Princeton Times, Bluefield Daily Telegraph
editorial cartoonist and sports cartoonist
Grant Canfield
November 21, 1945 – October 21, 2025
architect
magazine cartoonist
J. D. King
May 3, 1951 – late October, 2025
advertising and commercial artist
newspaper and magazine illustrator
Dick Weidman
July 13, 1930 – November 8, 2025
WGAL-TV cartoonist and graphic artist
comic strip: Silos
Walter Mahoney
January 21, 1951 – November 20, 2025
syndicate sales, manager, vice-president
Ken Crook
July 13, 1929 – November 30, 2025
Newsday staff artist and editorial cartoonist
Keith Brown
March 19, 1963 – December 10, 2025
Missouri Life Magazine illustrator
Sedalia Democrat editorial cartoonist
comic strip: The Wages of Sin
Randy Jones
May 7, 1949 – December 12, 2025
newspaper and magazine illustrator
Comics DC has a “complete” list of deaths in 2025 across all cartooning disciplines around the world.
corrections welcomed
additions sadly accepted
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