On This Day: 26 Jan

Births:

Flora Klickmann (1867); Kaye Webb (1914); Oliver Passingham (1925); Jules Feiffer (1929); Michael Turner (1929); Bryan Berry (1930); Murray Ball (1939)

Deaths:

John Byam Liston Shaw (1919); Margaret Constance Belsky (1989); Jon Peaty (1991); Bernard Cookson (2016)

Notable Events:

The Fink Brothers appeared on Central Television in 1985, with predictable results.
Judge Dredd newspaper strip began in Metro (free newspaper) in 2004.
Striker newspaper strip resumed in Nuts magazine in 2010.
The Untitled Project uploaded part of a television pilot, based on LogoRobotComics and Brain Damage, in 2010.
The Sunday Post included a free comic examining The Broons family tree in 2014.

On This Day: 20 Nov

Births:

Rob Cowan (1950); Anthony Williams (1962)

Deaths:

Tom Hood (1874); Flora Klickmann (1958)

Notable Events:

The sale of Glasgow-based John Watson & Co. (publisher of the first comic) was announced in 2012.