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: 29 Nov

Treasury of British Comics Faceache: The First Hundred Scrunges

Durham Red: The Encoded Heart by Peter J. Evans (Black Flame; Nov 2005) ISBN-10: 1 84416 272 9
St. Trinians novelisation by Pippa Le Quesne, based on the screenplay by Piers Ashworth & Nick Moorcroft. Original characters created by Ronald Searle (Puffin Books; Nov 2007) ISBN-13: 978-0141324173

First Appearances:

Billy Masters (Vengeance Trail) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #219 (02 Dec 1978).

Births:

Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (1836); James Affleck Shepherd (1866); George Stampa (1875); Edward George Warris Hulton (1906); George Cansdale (1909); Les Lilley (1924); Massimo Fenati (1969)

Deaths:

Dave Westaway (2014)