On This Day: 13 Oct

First Appearances:

Varoomshka in The Guardian newspaper strip. (1969)
Simon Studkins (Timespell) in Eagle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #238 (11 Oct 1986).

Births:

Bert Thomas (1883); Sybil Burr (1909); Michael Heath (1935); Paul Johnson (1958)

Deaths:

Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield OM PC (1947); H. Louis Diamond (1966); Eric Eden (1983)

Notable Events:

"Ullo!" revue by Bruce Bairnsfather opened at the Hippodrome, Birkenhead, in 1924.
Varoomshka comic strip, by John Kent, began in The Guardian in 1969.
Birmingham International Comics Show began, at Millennium Point, Birmingham, in 2007.
Lakes International Comic Art Festival began, in Kendal, Cumbria, in 2017.