1933 in comics

January

 * January 2: In Ernie Bushmiller's Fritzi Ritz the character Nancy makes her debut. She will eventually become the protagonist of the series.

February

 * February 17: In Chic Young's Blondie Dagwood Bumstead makes his debut.

April

 * Printer Eastern Color Printing makes its first foray into comic book publishing with Gulf Comic Weekly #1. The comic is 10 ½" x 15", and is advertised on national radio. All four pages contained one-page, full color comic strips. The tabloids are grabbed up as fast as Gulf Oil service stations can offer them. Gulf Comic Weekly is soon changed to Gulf Funny Weekly, and distribution shoots up to 3 million copies a week. The series runs as a tabloid until 1939 and runs for 422 issues until May 23, 1941. Around the same time, Eastern also prints another four-page tabloid for Standard Oil, titled Standard Oil Comics.

May

 * May 11: First issue of the Italian comics magazine Il Monello. It will run until 12 October 1990.

July

 * July 7: Pedrito Reyes and Francisco Reyes' Kulafu makes his debut.
 * July 14: Premier of the Fleischer Studios' Betty Boop animated short Popeye the Sailor, which introduces Popeye as an animated character. It will lead to his own animated film series which will increase the popularity of Popeye's comics by E.C. Segar all across the world.
 * July 23: Stanley Link's Tiny Tim makes its debut. It will run until 2 March 1958.
 * July 24: In E.C. Segar's newspaper comic strip Thimble Theatre Popeye and Olive Oyl's adopted child Swee'Pea makes her debut.
 * July 30: Roy Crane's Captain Easy makes its newspaper debut and will run until 1988.
 * July 31: Milton Caniff's Dickie Dare makes its debut.

August

 * August 21: Clarence Gray and William Ritt's comics series Brick Bradford makes its debut.

September

 * September 25: Norman W. Marsh and Allen Saunders' Dan Dunn makes its debut. It will run for over a decade.

October

 * October 1: Zack Mosley's The Adventures of Smilin' Jack makes its newspaper debut.
 * October 1: Ed Leffingwell's Little Joe makes its debut. It will run until 1972.

December

 * December 10: In E.C. Segar's newspaper comic strip Thimble Theatre Alice the Goon makes her debut.

February

 * February 15: Pat Sullivan, Australian-American animator, film producer and comics artist (Felix the Cat), dies at age 47 from pneumonia.

October

 * October 29: George Luks, American painter, illustrator and comics artist (continued Hogan's Alley), dies in a bar brawl at age 66.

Specific date unknown

 * Albert-Samuel Brodeur, Canadian illustrator and comics artist (Francine et Graindesel), dies at age 70 or 71.
 * Alfred Leete, British illustrator, poster designer and comics artist (Schmidt the Spy, Bosch), dies at age 50 or 51.