On This Day: 24 Dec

Births:

John Glashan (1927); Martin Baxendale (1952); Mark Millar (1969)

Character Births:

Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward (2039)

Deaths:

Charles Hamilton (1961); Harold Mack (1975); Jordi Buxadé Tonijuan (1997); Vic Neill (1999); Gino D'Antonio (2006); Ken Langstaff (2008)

Notable Events:

Father Christmas broadcast on Channel 4 in 1991.
Famous Fred broadcast on Channel 4 in 1996.
Ivor the Invisible animated short released in the UK in 2001.
The Snowman and the Snowdog broadcast on Channel 4 in 2012.
Mistress of Line, a documentary on Lorna Miller, uploaded in 2015.

On This Day: 11 Nov

John Glashan's World by John Glashan. (Robinson; 1991) ISBN-13: 978-1854871046.

The Chronicle of the Black Sword by Hawkwind. (Flicknife Records; 1985)

Births:

Ian Miller (1946); John Reppion (1978)

Deaths:

Frederick Thomas Dalton (1927); Roy Davis (2004)

Notable Events:

Tiffany Jones newspaper strip began in The Daily Sketch in 1964.
Striker newspaper strip began in The Sun in 1985.
Mick Anglo, Ltd. struck off the register of companies and dissolved in 1986.
DreddCon:1 took place from mid–day to midnight, at the Posthouse Bloomsbury, London, in 2000.
Thought Bubble comic convention began, in Leeds at Saviles & Royal Armouries Hall, in 2012.
When the Wind Blows released on Blu–Ray by Twilight Time in 2014.