Today in Comics History, January 23: Happy birthday, Django Reinhardt!

Strummed into our world on January 23, 1910: incomparable Romani guitarist Django Reinhardt, a major jazz pioneer ("Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," "Echoes of France," "I'se a Muggin'," "Improvisation 47," "La Mer," many more).


from "A Story About a Review" in American Splendor: Music Comics one-shot (Dark Horse, November 1997); script by Harvey Pekar; pencils, inks, and letters by Joe Sacco
Happy birthday, Django!


"La Mer" by Django Reinhardt (Columbia, 1956), written by Chrles Trenet