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Showing posts with label Cartoon Museum. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 6, 2019

On This Day: 06 Apr

Eagle Monthly (Fleetway Publications) #[473] (May 1991) [monthly frequency began]

The Official Comic Book Price Guide for Great Britain 1991/1992 by Duncan McAlpine. (PGP; 1991]

First Appearances:

Corporal Bill Davy (Sign of the Skull in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #133 (09 Apr 1977).

Births:

Charles Folkard (1878); Hayden Scott–Baron (Dock; 1980)

Notable Events:

A signing session for the The Official Comic Book Price Guide for Great Britain took place at the Virgin Mega Store, Oxford Street, London in 1991. Among others, Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, Rian Hughes and David Lloyd were in attendance.
The Mail on Sunday gave away a copy of The Beano with the paper in 2014.
The Great British Graphic Novel exhibition began, at the Cartoon Museum, London, in 2016.

Thursday, March 28, 2019

On This Day: 28 Mar

Batman (London Editions Magazines) #20 (1990) new look

Tank Girl - Original Soundtrack from the Motion Film (1995)
Nikolai Dante: Honour Be Damned! by David Bishop (Black Flame; Mar 2006) ISBN-10: 1 84416 324 5

First Appearances:

Combat Colin in Action Force (Marvel Comics Ltd.) #5 (04 Apr 1987).

Births:

Dan Lloyd (1931); John Royle (1968)

Deaths:

Jack Butler Yeats (1957); Albert Bernard Hollowood (Hod; Mammon; 1981)

Notable Events:

The Cartoon Museum announced that it was to relocate to 55 Wells Street, due to a rent increase, at the launch of the 50 Glorious Shows exhibition, in 2018. 50 Glorious Shows, running until the second of September, showcases the best of the exhibitions which have taken place at the Museum thus far.