1898 in comics

1898

 * In Jimmy Swinnerton's The Little Tigers the character Mr. Jack makes his debut. He will have a spin-off comic later.
 * January 23: The final episode of Richard F. Outcault's The Yellow Kid is published.
 * February 26: Dan Leno's Comics Journal, a comics magazine created by British comedian Dan Leno, is the first celebrity comic. Leno writes his stories personally, while Tom Browne provides the illustrations.
 * October 29: Arthur White creates Jungle Jinks for children's magazine The Playbox. It's the first funny animal comic strip in the United Kingdom and will run until 1947, albeit drawn by other artists, among them Mabel Francis Taylor.
 * Benjamin Rabier draws a comic strip named Tintin-Lutin, which later inspires Hergé to Tintin.