On This Day: 28 Feb

Anderson, PSI Division: Fear the Darkness by Mitchel Scanlon. (Black Library; Feb 2006) ISBN-10: 1 84416 326 1.
Thrill Power Overload by David Bishop. (2007)

The Adventures of Luther Arkwright by Bryan Talbot. (Big Finish Productions Ltd.; 2005)

First Appearances:

Moses Rayker (Sergeant Rayker) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #232 (03 Mar 1979).

Births:

Sir John Tenniel (1820); Thomas Maybank (1869); Jim Baikie (1940); Barry Fantoni (1940); Philip Reeve (1966)

Deaths:

Salomon van Abbé (1955); Charles Edmund Brock (1938)

Notable Events:

The funeral of Charles William Shirley Brooks took place, at Kensal Green Cemetary, London, in 1876.
Donald and Mickey was set to be launched by IPC in 1972, though its' actual appearance was delayed by power cuts crippling the country.
An exhibition of 1800s comic art began at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1974.
The first episode of Spitting Image broadcast on ITV in 1984. Co-created by Roger Law and Peter Fluck, it would launch multiple spin-off media.
The Fosdyke Saga newspaper strip ended in 1985.
The Larks newspaper strip ended in 1985.
2000 A.D. held a 25th Anniversary Party at Ministry of Sound in London in 2002.