On This Day: 08 Mar

International Women's Day

First Appearances:

The Broons (newspaper strip) in the Fun Section of The Sunday Post (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #?? (08 Mar 1936).
Oor Wullie (newspaper strip) in the Fun Section of The Sunday Post (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #?? (08 Mar 1936).

Births:

Arthur Martin (1911)

Deaths:

John Hassall (1948); Mario Uggeri (2004); Franco Paludetti (2008)

Notable Events:

Rick Martin newspaper strip concluded in 1958.
The relaunched Smash! made its' first appearance in 1969, eliminating the Marvel reprint material.

On This Day: 21 Jan

Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection (Hachette Partworks Ltd.) #01 (2015) GN

First Appearances:

Judge Death in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 149 (26 Jan 1980)

Births:

Ernest Shaw (1891); Albert Lock (1893); Martin Sharp (1942)

Deaths:

Martin Honeysett (2015); Alessandro Biffignandi (2017)

Notable Events:

Notorious highwayman Claude Duval was executed at Tyburn in 1670.
Alan Coren was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1978.
John Freeman's thoughts on the future of Marvel UK, published in 1993, is available online.
A special talk about Oor Wullie's Bucket Trail began Dundee University's Saturday Evening Lecture series in 2017. David Cunningham, chief executive of the ARCHIE Foundation, and Suzanne Scott, artistic coordinator of the trail, were present at the talk, which was chaired by Ellis Watson, CEO of DC Thomson.