On This Day: 15 Nov

Marshal Law: Kingdom of the Blind (Apocalypse) #01 (1990)
Treasury of British Comics Misty Book 2

British Comics: A Cultural History by James Chapman. (Reaktion Books; 2011)

Births:

Arthur Ferrier (1890); Patrick Nicolle (1907); Paul Raymond (1925)

Deaths:

Paul Rigby (2006); Paul 'Gamma' Gamble (2010)

Notable Events:

On this day in 1958 The Economist published a report entitled 'No Laughing Matter' regarding British comics, stating combined sales of titles to be in the region of £11 million.
Flook daily newspaper strip concluded in 1985. It continued in The Sunday Mirror thereafter.
Stan Lee continued his signing tour at Forbidden Planet, 3 Teviot Place, Edinburgh, in 1991. He also appeared at the store in Glasgow later in the day.
Thought Bubble One Day Comic Convention took place in Leeds in Saviles Hall in 2008.
The Illustrators: British Art of Illustration 1800-2008 exhibition began at the Chris Beetles Gallery, St James's, London, in 2008.
Thought Bubble Comic Convention began, as part of the Leeds Comic Art Festival, at Armouries Square, Leeds, in 2011.
Thought Bubble Comic Convention began, as part of the Leeds Comic Art Festival, at Armouries Square, Leeds, in 2014.
Bryan Talbot signing for the Grandville: Force Majeure exhibition launch, at Orbital Comics, London, in 2017.

On This Day: 25 Oct

Strontium Dog: A Fistful of Strontium by Jaspre Bark & Steve Lyons (Black Flame; Oct 2005) ISBN-10: 1 84416 270 2

Births:

Arthur William à Beckett (1844); Claude Allin Shepperson (1867); Maurice Dodd (1922); Paul Rigby (1924); Larry Lieber (1931)

Deaths:

Lewis Baumer (1963)

Notable Events:

Jack Dunkley's iconic image of a hand holding a firearm graced the front-cover of The Daily Mirror in 1951.
Peter O'Donnell's play Mr. Fothergill's Murder opened at The Duke Of York in 1982.
The Revolver Hallowe'en Tour began at The Sheffield Space Centre in 1990. Julie Hollings, Rian Hughes, Shaky Kane, Brendan McCarthy, Peter Milligan, Grant Morrison, Charles Shaar Murray, Paul Neary and Steve Parkhouse were in attendance.
The Cartoon Century: Modern Britain through the Eyes of its Cartoonists exhibition began in the Political Cartoon Gallery in 2007.