On This Day: 28 Nov

First Appearances:

Bonjo from Beyond the Stars in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 41 (03 Dec 1977).
Sgt. Grogan (Grogan's Guns) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #271 (01 Dec 1979).
Pierre Lebec (Deathtrack!) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #525 (13 Oct 1984).

Births:

Jack Le Grand (1919)

Deaths:

Enid Blyton (1968); Bill Thacker (2006)

Notable Events:

The Hoffnung Astronautical Music Festival took place at the Royal Festival Hall, London in 1961, two years after the death of Gerard Hoffnung.
The première of Carry On Up The Khyber took place in 1968 – the title sequence was designed by Larry (Terence Parkes).
Chris Donald took the first issue of Viz to get printed at the Tyneside Free Press in 1979.
Douglas Bader was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1981.
Forbidden Planet 2 opened at 58 St. Giles High Street, London, in 1982. Despite claiming to focus on film and television memorabilia, it had a wide range of material - including copious SF novels.
The Gorillaz compilation album, The Singles Collection: 2001–2011, released in the UK in 2011.
Tom Gauld discussed Baking with Kafka with Paul Gravett at The British Library in 2017. After the talk he signed copies of his books and handed out badges.