On This Day: 11 Dec

First Appearances:

Keepers of the Sun Stone in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #43 (16 Dec 1961).
The Secret Quest of Tiger Shaw in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #43 (16 Dec 1961).

Births:

René Bull (1872); John Buscema (1927); Peter Firmin (1928); David William Boutland (1938)

Deaths:

F.H. Townsend (1920); Willie Rushton (1996)

Notable Events:

The Daily Mirror demonstrated their fact-checking skills by calling Judge Dredd an American comic-book character in a 1991 article.
The first episode of Black Mirror, co-written by Charlie Brooker, was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2011.
The short film Nothing to Declare, written by Frank Quitely, was funded through IndieGoGo in 2016.

On This Day: 23 Nov

First Appearances:

Dagger Man in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #166 (26 Nov 1977).

Births:

Neville Main (1913); Charles Grigg (1916); Harley Lawrence Schwadron (1942); Sandra Marrs (1973)

Deaths:

Graham Laidler (Pont; 1940); Dorothy Craigie (1971); Dennis Mallet (1988); Lilli Ursula Barbara Victoria Davidson (Victoria; 1999)

Notable Events:

Eve newspaper strip began in The Daily Sketch in 1953.
Juvenile Publications were moved from 161–166 Fleet Street to the old Daily Herald building at 96 Longacre in 1963.
Alan McKenzie, Mark Millar, Grant Morrison, Sean Philips, John Smith and Steve Yeowell attended a joint 2000 A.D. / Judge Dredd The Megazine signing at Mike Conroy's The Edge of Forever, 82B Broadway, Bexley Heath, Kent, in 1991. Judge Dredd was also in attendance.
Alan Moore's Outbreaks of Violets, a set of 24 cards with art by a variety of European artists, was given away at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards.
Thought Bubble Comic Con, the Leeds Sequential Art Festival, began at Clarence Dock, Leeds, in 2013.
Peter Firmin received a special lifetime honour at the BAFTA Children's Awards in 2014.
Dan Dare: A Brief History video uploaded to YouTube in 2016 to celebrate the launch of the B7 Media / Big Finish audio adventures.