On This Day: 01 Apr

April Fool's Day!

Vulcan Holiday Special (IPC Magazines Ltd.) nn (1976).
Eagle and Tiger (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[159] (06 Apr 1985).
Eagle and Wildcat (Fleetway Publications) #[368] (08 Apr 1989).
Crazy Comics! #01 in Toxic (Egmont) #137 (01 Apr 2009-21 Apr 2009).

Tottering-by-Gently: Out and Out and About with the Totterings (Frances Lincoln; 2010) ISBN-13: 978-0711230842

Judge Dredd - War Crimes by David Bishop (Big Finish Productions; 2004)

First Appearances:

Hereward the Wake in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #111 (06 Apr 1963).
Lieutenant Oskar Ritter (Blitzkrieg Bomber) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #341 (04 Apr 1981).
Bobby Patterson (The Ultimate Warrior) in Eagle and Tiger #[159] (06 Apr 1985).

Births:

C.H. Chapman (1897); Peter Maddocks (1928); James Robinson (1963)

Notable Events:

Cecil Aldin, Tom Browne, Walter Churcher, Dudley Hardy and Phil May founded the Sketch Club in 1898, located in Dilke Street in London.
Clock Summer in with Horrabin television show, devised by (and starring) Dot And Carrie creator J.F. Horrabin, broadcast in 1938.
The first meeting of the Cartoonist Club of Great Britain took place in 1960.
John Brown Media founded in 1987 in order to publish HotAir and Viz - both previously published by Virgin.
Willie Rushton was the subject of the BBC television show This is Your Life in 1987.
The Deadline Signing Tour began at Ace, in Colchester, Essex, in 1989, before moving on to the Acme Comic Shop in Brixton.
Frank Quitely exhibition began at Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow in 2017.

On This Day: 24 Mar

The A-Team Spring Special (Marvel) #02 (1986).
Fraggle Rock Spring Special (Marvel) #nn (1986).
Get Along Gang Spring Special (Marvel) Collected Comics #02 (1986).
Secret Wars II Spring Special (Marvel) #01 (1986).
Transformers Spring Special (Marvel) Collected Comics #3 (1986).
Zoids Spring Special (Marvel) Collected Comics #01 (1986).
Team Toxic Classic Comic Collection in Toxic (Egmont) #159 (2010).

The Adventures of Meng and Ecker by David Britton. (Savoy Books; 1997)
Horror Panegyric by Keith Seward. (Savoy Books; 2008) ISBN-13: 978-0861301188.

Births:

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903); Glenn Fabry (1961); Steve Pugh (1966)

Deaths:

Ernest Howard Shepard (1976)

Notable Events:

The Greens newspaper strip ended in 1990.
Alan Grant, Simon Jacob, David Roach and John Tomlinson took part in a 2000 A.D. signing session at Forbidden Planet, 5 Duke Street, Cardiff, in 1990.

Angelina Ballerina Annual 2007

[2006] Annual. Original price £6.99.
72 pages. Full colour contents.
Egmont UK Ltd.

ISBN-10: 1405226129
ISBN-13: 9781405226127

Cover (uncredited).

Contents:

 2 Angelina Ballerina endpaper; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

 5 Title Page

 6 Contents

 7 Meet Angelina Ballerina full-color pin-up; a: UNKNOWN (uncredited).

 8 Angelina and the Mouseling Family character bios; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

10 Angelina's Very Special Friends character bios; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

12 Angelina's Friends character bios; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

13 ..And Enemies character bios; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

14 The Ballet Tickets picture story (uncredited); illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

20 Angelina's Year January spot-the-difference; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

22 Angelina's Year February color-in page; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

23 Angelina's Year March story and art feature; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

24 Show and Tell text story (uncredited); illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

30 Angelina's Year April picture puzzle; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

32 Angelina the Mouse Detective picture story (uncredited); illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

38 Angelina's Year May story and art feature; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

40 Angelina's Princess Dance text story (uncredited); illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

46 Angelina's Year June jigsaw picture puzzle; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

48 Angelina's Year July art feature; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

49 Angelina's Year August story and art feature; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

50 Two Mice in a Boat text story (uncredited); illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

56 Angelina's Year September picture feature; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

58 Angelina's Year October picture puzzles; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

60 Henry's Halloween picture story (uncredited); illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

66 Angelina's Year November picture puzzle; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

68 Angelina's Year December wordsearch; illustrated by UNKNOWN (uncredited).

2005

Angelina Ballerina Annual

2007

On Thi Day: 09 Dec

Egmont Classic Comics: Buster (Egmont) #01 (2009)

Births:

Ralph David Sallon (1899); Frank William Huline-Dickens (1931); Ashleigh Brilliant (1933)

Deaths:

Xavier Musquera (2009)

Notable Events:

A Raymond Jackson cartoon in The Evening Standard in 1970, attacking power workers ("Homo-electrical-sapiens Britannicus"), resulted in the printers stopping the presses. Production was only resumed when the paper agreed to amend the cartoon with an accompanying letter which stated the printers' views.
The Rupert Bear Story, directed by Terry Jones, was broadcast on Channel 4 in 1982.
A Look and Learn giveaway was included in The Guardian in 2006 to promote a relaunch of the title.
The Birmingham International Comics Show began at the Custard Factory, Birmingham, in 2006.