1998 in animation

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Events in 1998 in animation.

Events

February

• February 4: In the South Park episode Damien Satan makes his debut.[1]
• February 8: The Simpsons episode The Joy of Sect is first broadcast.[2]
• February 18: The South Park episode Mecha-Streisand features Robert Smith (The Cure) as a special guest voice.[3]

March

• March 15: The first episode of PB&J Otter airs.[4]
• March 23: 70th Academy Awards: Geri's Game by Jan Pinkava wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[5]

April

• April 1: In the South Park episode Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus Satan is depicted having a relationship with Saddam Hussein.[6]
• April 3: The first episode of Cowboy Bebop airs.[7]
• April 4: The first episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! airs.[8]
• April 20: The first episode of Stressed Eric is broadcast.[9]
• April 26: The Fox animated television series The Simpsons reaches its 200th episode: Trash of the Titans. It has the band U2 and actor Steve Martin as special guest voices.[10]

May

• May 14: The first episode of Celebrity Deathmatch is broadcast.[11]
• May 17: In The Simpsons episode Natural Born Kissers a nude Homer and Marge have to run from being discovered.[12]
• May 27: American voice actor Phil Hartman is murdered by his wife who is under the influence of drugs. She commits suicide afterwards.[13]

June

• June 22: The first episode of Bob and Margaret is broadcast.[14]

July

• July 17: The first episode of Oh Yeah! Cartoons airs.[15]
• July 21: The first episode of Lascars airs.[16]
• July 24: Roy O. Disney receives a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[17]

August

• August 31: The first episode of Disney's Hercules (1998 TV series) is broadcast.[18]

September

• September 1:
  • The first episode of Cousin Skeeter airs.[19]
  • The first episode of The Wild Thornberrys is broadcast.[20]
• September 4: The first episode of Archibald the Koala is broadcast.[21]
• September 6: The first episode of Oggy and the Cockroaches is broadcast.[22]
• September 12: The first episode of Godzilla: The Series airs.[23]
• September 14: The first episode of Histeria! is broadcast.[24]

October

• October 2: The film Antz, DreamWorks Animation's first project, directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson, is released to the public.[25]
• October 3: The first episode of Anatole airs.[26]
• October 4:
  • The first episode of CatDog is broadcast.[27]
  • The first episode of Rolie Polie Olie is broadcast.[28]
• October 5: The first episode of Ojarumaru airs.[29]
• October 9: The first episode of The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald airs.
• Specific date unknown: The Japanese animation studio Bones is founded.[30]

November

• November 2: Chris Wedge's Bunny is first released.[31]
• November 16: Steamboat Willie is added to the National Film Registry.[32][33]
• November 18: The first episode of The Powerpuff Girls is broadcast.[34]
• November 20: The Rugrats Movie premiers.[35]
• November 28: The first episode of Bob the Builder is broadcast.[36]

December

• December 9: Michel Ocelot's Kirikou and the Sorceress premiers.[37]
• December 16: In the South Park episode Gnomes Tweek Meak makes his debut.[38]
• December 18: The film The Prince of Egypt premiers.[39]
• December 21: The first episode of Rex the Runt premiers.[40]
• December 23: Enzo D'Alò's Lucky and Zorba premiers.

Specific date unknown

• Mikhail Tumelya's The Magic Pipe is released.[41]
• The first episode of Fat Dog Mendoza airs.[42]

Films released

Television series debuts

Date	Title	Channel	Year
January 6	The New Chucklewood Critters	N/A	1998–99
February 7	Silver Surfer	Fox Kids	1998
	Toonsylvania		1998–99
March 1	The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures	HBO
March 15	PB&J Otter	Playhouse Disney	1998–2000
April 4	CatDog	Nickelodeon	1998–2005
May 14	Celebrity Deathmatch	MTV	1998–2007
June 8	Invasion America	The WB	1998
July 18	Bad Dog	The Family Channel	1998–2000
July 19	Oh Yeah! Cartoons	Nickelodeon
August 15	Donkey Kong Country	Fox Family Channel
	Monster Farm		1998–99
	Walter Melon
August 18	Ohh Nooo! Mr. Bill Presents		1998–99
August 31	Hercules	ABC
September 1	The Wild Thornberrys	Nickelodeon	1998–2004
September 5	The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs	Fox Kids	1998–99
September 7	RoboCop: Alpha Commando	Syndication
September 8	Pokémon	Cartoon Network	1998–present
September 12	Godzilla: The Series	Fox Kids	1998–2000
	Mad Jack the Pirate		1998–99
	The Mr. Potato Head Show
	Oggy and the Cockroaches		1998–present
September 14	Histeria!	Kids' WB	1998–2000
September 16	Shadow Raiders	Syndication	1998–99
September 18	Voltron: The Third Dimension		1998–2000
September 19	Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain	Kids' WB	1998–99
	Anatole	CBS	1998–99
	Dumb Bunnies
	Mythic Warriors		1998–2000
	The Lionhearts	Syndication	1998
September 30	Elliot Moose	PBS	1998–2000
October 3	Birdz	CBS	1998–99
	Flying Rhino Junior High		1998–2000
October 4	Rolie Polie Olie	Playhouse Disney	1998–2004
October 5	Noddy	PBS	1998–2000
October 9	The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald	VHS	1998–2003
October 10	Brats of the Lost Nebula	Kids' WB	1998–99
November 2	Jay Jay the Jet Plane	TLC	1998–2005
November 18	The Powerpuff Girls (1998)	Cartoon Network

Television series endings

Date	Title	Channel	Year	Notes
January 4	Inspector Gadget's Field Trip	The History Channel	1996–98	Cancelled
January 10	Jungle Cubs	ABC
January 31	Spider-Man (1994)	Fox Kids	1994–98	Ended
February 23	Bobby's World		1990–98
February 25	Channel Umptee-3	Kids' WB	1997–98	Cancelled
March 2	Life with Louie	Fox Kids	1994–98	Ended
March 4	101 Dalmatians: The Series	ABC	1997–98	Cancelled
March 7	Gadget Boy & Heather	Syndication, The History Channel	1995–98
March 27	Big Bag	Cartoon Network	1996–98
April 25	The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police	Fox Kids	1997–98
May 16	Silver Surfer		1998
June 26	Salty's Lighthouse	TLC	1997–98
July 7	Invasion America	The WB	1998
October 17	The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper	Fox Kids	1996–98
November 6	All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series	Syndication, Fox Family
November 14	Animaniacs	Kids' WB	1993–98	Ended
	Pinky and the Brain		1995–98
December 12	The Lionhearts	Syndication	1998	Cancelled

Deaths

January

• January 4: Mae Questel, American voice actress (voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl), dies at age 89.[43]
• January 7: Eli Bauer, American comics artist and animator (Terrytoons, Sesame Street), dies at age 69.[44]
• January 21: Yoshifumi Kondō, Japanese animator (Studio Ghibli) and director (Whisper of the Heart), dies at age 47.[45]

February

• February 14: Thomas McKimson, American comics artist and animator (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Animation), dies at age 90.[46]

April

• April 17: Linda McCartney, American photographer and activist (voiced herself in The Simpsons episode Lisa the Vegetarian), dies at age 56 from breast cancer.[47]
• April 23: Enrique Riverón, Cuban-American cartoonist, animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Animation Studios), dies at age 95 or 96. [48]

May

• May 27: Phil Hartman, American voice actor (voice of Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz on The Simpsons), dies of murder at age 49.[13]
• May 31: Sherman Labby, American storyboard artist and production illustrator (Filmation, Hanna-Barbera, Marvel), passes away from muscular dystrophy at age 68.[49]

June

• June 3: William L. Snyder, American animated film producer (Rembrandt Films), dies at age 80.[50]
• June 5: Jeanette Nolan, American actress (voice of Ellie Mae the muskrat in The Rescuers, Widow Tweed in The Fox and the Hound), dies at age 86 from a stroke.[51]
• June 12: Richard Thompson, American animator and film director (Warner Bros. Cartoons, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Bill Melendez), dies at age 83.[52]
• June 28: Jean-Yves Raimbaud, French animator and screenwriter (Oggy and the Cockroaches, Space Goofs), dies at age 40 from lung cancer.[53]

July

• July 6: Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (the narrator in the Pecos Bill segment in Melody Time), dies at age 86.[54]
• July 8: Dušan Vukotić, Yugoslav-Croatian cartoonist and animator (Zagreb Film, Ersatz), dies at age 71.
• July 16: Tony Sgroi, American comics artist and animator (worked for Warner Bros. animation, Bob Clampett, Walter Lantz, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 73.[55]

August

• August 14: Stanislav Holý, Czech graphic artist, caricaturist, animation designer, children's book illustrator and animator (Mr. Pip), dies at age 55.[56]

September

• September 6: Whitney Lee Savage, American animator (Mickey Mouse in Vietnam, animated segments in Sesame Street), dies at age 69.[57]

October

• October 15: Jack Boyd, American animator and special effects creator (Walt Disney Company), dies at age 82.[58]

November

• November 24: Jacques Eggermont, Belgian comics artist and animator (worked for CBA), passes away at age 80.[59]

December

• December 10: Ray Goossens, Belgian animator (Musti, Plons de Kikker) and comics artist, dies at age 74.[60]
• December 12: Don Patterson, American animator, animated film director and producer (Walt Disney Company, MGM, Walter Lantz, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 88.[61]
• December 19: Kazuo Harada, Japanese animated film director and producer (Studio Comet, Nihon Ad Systems, Tsuchida Production), dies at an unknown age.[62]
• December 25: Richard Paul, American voice actor (voice of Sonny in Coonskin), dies at age 58.[63]

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See also

• 1998 in anime

External links

• Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb