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.