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Showing posts with label Private Eye. Show all posts
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Friday, October 26, 2018

On This Day: 26 Oct

Sláine: The Horned God (Fleetway Publications; 1989].
The Chronicles of Genghis Grimtoad (Marvel) nn (1990).

Births:

Lionel Hale (1909); Francisco Solano López (1928); Les Gibbard (1945)

Deaths:

William Hogarth (1764); Albert George Morrow (1927); Lawson Wood (1957); C.L. Doughty (1985); Malcolm Douglas (2009)

Notable Events:

The Revolver Hallowe'en Tour descended on Odyssey 7, University Shopping Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester, in 1990.
Private Eye at 45 exhibition began, at the Cartoon Museum, London, in 2006.
Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend stage show premiere, at the Belgrade Theatre, in 2013. Eddie Campbell had a hand in the stage design, though the production wasn't connected to the long-running Buster strip.

Sunday, October 21, 2018

On This Day: 21 Oct

Battle Picture Weekly and Valiant (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[86] (23 Oct 1976)

Zenith: Phase One (Rebellion; 2014)
Private Eye Annual 2016 edited by Ian Hislop. (Private Eye Productions Ltd.; 2016) ISBN-13: 978-1901784640.

Judge Dredd: Dreddlocked by Stephen Marley. (Virgin Publishing; Oct 1993) ISBN-10: 0 35232 875 4.

Births:

Arthur Wallis Mills (1876); Geoffrey Boycott (1940); Janet Ahlberg (1944); Diego Jourdan (1977)

Deaths:

Jesús Blasco (1995); Dave Gibson (2015)

Notable Events:

The Elvis Presley Story newspaper strip ended in 1977.
Alf Omega Potter began work on his first comic, based on Marvel characters, in 1978, at the age of thirteen.
Artists Dave Gibbons and Lee Sullivan attended a Doctor Who Magazine tenth anniversary, signing held at The Cafe Munchen, St. Giles High Street, London, in 1989. Also in attendance was Target cover artist Alister Pearson.
Eddie Gorecki and Jonathan Stanesby scaled the Royal Courts of Justice dressed as Batman and Robin in 2003.