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Showing posts with label Charles Chilton. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

On This Day: 02 Jan

Batman: Arkham (Titan Comics) #01 (2014)

Births:

Salvatore Deidda (1953)

Deaths:

H.O. Batho (1932); Edmund George Valpy Knox (Evoe; 1971); Charles Chilton (2013)

Notable Events:

Patsy... newspaper strip ended in 1953.
Sir Osbert Lancaster married Anne Scott-James in 1967.
Studs newspaper strip ended in 1982.
Bryan and Mary Talbot won the Costa Biography Award for Dotter of Her Father's Eyes in 2013, the first graphic novel to win the award.

Thursday, December 20, 2018

On This Day: 20 Dec

Births:

Albert Thacker "Bertie" Brown (1887)

Deaths:

Leslie Illingworth (1979)

Notable Events:

A Christmas tea for Eagle readers, with Marcus Morris, Frank Hampson, and Charles Chilton, took place in London in 1951.
Paul Smith was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1992. His chosen book was The Beano Annual 1974.
Bob Monkhouse was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1998.
The second Dennis and Gnasher animated series ended in 2013.