On This Day: 03 Mar

Tottering-by-Gently: In the Garden with the Totterings (Frances Lincoln; 2011) ISBN-13: 978-0711231856

Births:

Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet (1869); Raymond Sheppard (1913); Ronald Searle (1920); Dino Leonetti (1937); Charlie Brooker (1971); David Fickling

Notable Events:

Crisis #39 (03 Mar 1990-16 Mar 1990) was published in conjunction with Amnesty International in 1990.
Leo Baxendale delivered his final I Love You, Baby Basil newspaper strip to The Guardian in 1992.
Neil Gaiman's adaptation of his and Dave McKean's The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2005.
Mirrormask released in the UK in 2006.
The third Gorillaz studio album, Plastic Beach, was released in the UK in 2010.
Comic Empire event began at the Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, London, in 2013.
Bryan and Mary Talbot signing at Inky Fingers, Cowley Road, Oxford, in 2018.

On This Day: 07 Jan

Doctor Who Monthly (Marvel) #61 (1982). Peter Davison era begins
The Phoenix (David Fickling) #01 (2012).

Births:

Eric Roberts (1910); J.G. Raw (1913); Susan Butcher (1959)

Deaths:

Arthur Thomas Pask (1936); Basil Hone (2003)

Notable Events:

George Cansdale was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1957.
Stan McMurtry's first cartoon appeared in Today in 1961.
Musical Swan Esther premièred at the Young Vic in 1984. Lyrics by Jack Edward Oliver.
On Eagle's Wings: British Adventure Comics, 1950-1969 exhibition began at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 2012.
An eight-page preview of The Phoenix was given away with The Times in 2012.
Striker newspaper strip resumed in The Sun in 2013.
Trog, Flook - and Humph too! exhibition began, at the Cartoon Museum, London, in 2013.
The stage adaptation of The Giant Beard That Was Evil began a run at Bristol Old Vic Studio in 2015.
Charlie Brooker was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 2018.

On This Day: 27 Oct

Tiger and Speed (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[??] (01 Nov 1980).
Battle Action Force (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[440] (29 Oct 1983).
The Dandy (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #3508 (30 Oct 2010).
The Thrill Electric (Channel 4) webcomic

It's Ghastly! (Hibernia; Oct 2016)

Births:

Florence Anderson (1893); Leo Baxendale (1930); Patrick Woodroffe (1940); Bernie Wrightson (1948)

Notable Events:

Spider-Man made a personal appearance on Central ITV's Saturday Starship magazine show in 1984. He also made personal appearances at Tesco in Gateshead and Birmingham, as well as Carrefour at Boroughbridge.
The Revolver Hallowe'en Tour descended on SF Bookshop, 42 West Crosscauseway, Edinburgh, in 1990, before making headway to Forbidden Planet, 168 Buchannon Street, Glasgow.
The Comic pull-out section began in The Guardian in 2007, with Robotgirl by John Aggs taking the front cover.
The first episode of Dead Set, written by former Oink! contributor Charlie Brooker, broadcast on Channel 4 in 2008.
The Dandy was relaunched in 2010, after the hybrid Dandy Xtreme experiment. Nigel Parkinson drew caricatures of the hosts of ITV chat show Loose Women, which appeared during that show's discussion of the news. With 18 new strips included in the line-up of the title, various other TV and radio shows made note of the developments, the most controversial of which was Harry Hill's prominent place on the cover.
Wallace and Gromit newspaper strip ended in 2013.
The official Beano YouTube channel launched in 2014 with the Dennis And Gnasher - Stink Bomb Prank short.