This is a list of comics-related events in 2019. It includes any relevant comics-related events, deaths of notable comics-related people, conventions and first issues by title.
Events
January
January 7: First installment of the comic strip Alley Oop written by Joey Alison Sayers and illustrated by Jonathan Lemon. January 25: Canadian-Dutch artist Maia Matches is inaugurated as the annual Stadstekenaar van Amsterdam (City Illustrator of Amsterdam). January: The final issue of the French comics magazine Psikopat is published.
February
February 10: Wiley Miller's newspaper comic Non Sequitur causes controversy after a subliminal anti-Donald Trump message is spotted in one of the panels. Multiple newspapers discontinued carrying the strip in response. February 15: The oldest Danish comics store in the world, Fantask, in Copenhagen, announces it will close down in June after 47 years. Within two days a crowdfunding campaign saves the store from this fate and it continues its existence. February 20: Dutch comics writer Patty Klein is knighted in the Order of the Dutch Lion. She dies less than a month later.
March
March 2: In Groningen, the Netherlands, the Dutch Comics Museum (Nederlands Stripmuseum) is closed down. March 23–24: During the Stripdagen in Utrecht Typex wins the Stripschapprijs. Ger Apeldoorn wins the P. Hans Frankfurtherprijs., while Henk Alleman receives the Bulletje en Boonestaakschaal. March 31: Jerry Van Amerongen's comic Ballard Street ends.
April
April 2: Belgian cartoonist GAL receives an honorary doctorate from the Free University in Brussels. April 29: The New York Times gets caught up in controversy over two cartoons accused of antisemitism. Both target Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. One is made by António Moreira Antunes, the other by Roar Hagen. As a result, the magazine announces that they will no longer publish syndicated editorial cartoons. Two months later they push this policy even further and decide to no longer publish any daily political cartoons.
May
May 22: In Orvelte, The Netherlands, a museum is opened dedicated to the work of Jan Kruis. In front of the Hergé Museum in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, a statue of Hergé, sculpted by Tom Frantzen, is erected. May 29: In Hergé's birthplace Etterbeek a bust of his head is revealed. French comics artist and illustrator Pascal Somon is sentenced for plagiarism and illegal copies of Tintin to the hefty sum of 32.000 euros (35.600 dollars) in damages.
June
June 10: The New York Times announces that it will no longer publish daily political cartoons in its international edition from 1 July on, as a result over a controversial cartoon by António depicting Donald Trump as a lapdog of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu two months earlier. Egyptian artist Ganzeer publishes his first graphic novel The Solar Grid. June 30: Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder is fired from Brunswick News Inc. over a cartoon criticizing president Trump.
July
July 3: It is announced that Mad Magazine will no longer publish original material from August on and disappear from the newsstands. It will only be available via subscription and direct markets, specializing on reprints, but with brand new covers. It will still publish occasional specials. July 3: Robert Kirkman unexpectedly ends his long-running comic, The Walking Dead, after 193 issues.
August
August 16: The Guardian makes a controversy public regarding Marvel Comics who refused to publish an essay by Art Spiegelman, because of criticism in the text regarding U.S. President Donald Trump. Marvel claims they wanted to stay apolitical.
September
September 5: Belgian comics writer Raoul Cauvin announces his retirement from scripting Les Tuniques Bleues. September 17: Diane Noomin releases the collective comic book Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment and Survival, published by Harry N. Abrams. It features comics by women reflecting on personal encounters with sexual violence. September 24: The Dutch cartoonists collective Gorilla wins the Inktspotprijs for Best Political Cartoon.
October
October 7: In Haarlem, the Netherlands, the first comics mural of the city is revealed, designed by Thé Tjong-Khing. October 23: Belgian comics publishers Standaard Uitgeverij and Ballon Media merge.
November
November 13: The Dutch cartoonist duo Evert Kwok wins a court case against a man who sued them after they complained about his illegal and uncredited use of their cartoons on his site.
December
December 23: The Antwerp mini-theme park and exhibition Comics Station is sold to Studio 100.