On This Day: 19 Apr

The Tenth Doctor Archives (Titan Comics) #01 (2016)
Power Rangers: Samurai (Panini Magazines) #01 (19 Apr 2012-16 May 2012)

Tottering Hall: Family Life at Tottering-By-Gently (Orion Media; 2001) ISBN-13: 978-0752841076.

Him off the Viz: The Comic Stripped Bare by Simon Donald (Go Faster Stripe; 2015)

First Appearances:

Private Tom Green (Green's Grudge War) in Action (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[11] (24 Apr 1976).

Births:

Mervyn Suart (1908); Camillo Zuffi (1912); Trevor Francis (1954); Phil Hall

Notable Events:

Dan Dare, Pilot of The Future radio adaptation began on BBC Radio Four in 1990.
The May un Mar Lady Dave Follows exhibition began in The Potteries Museum in 2008.

On This Day: 01 Apr

April Fool's Day!

Vulcan Holiday Special (IPC Magazines Ltd.) nn (1976).
Eagle and Tiger (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #[159] (06 Apr 1985).
Eagle and Wildcat (Fleetway Publications) #[368] (08 Apr 1989).
Crazy Comics! #01 in Toxic (Egmont) #137 (01 Apr 2009-21 Apr 2009).

Tottering-by-Gently: Out and Out and About with the Totterings (Frances Lincoln; 2010) ISBN-13: 978-0711230842

Judge Dredd - War Crimes by David Bishop (Big Finish Productions; 2004)

First Appearances:

Hereward the Wake in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #111 (06 Apr 1963).
Lieutenant Oskar Ritter (Blitzkrieg Bomber) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #341 (04 Apr 1981).
Bobby Patterson (The Ultimate Warrior) in Eagle and Tiger #[159] (06 Apr 1985).

Births:

C.H. Chapman (1897); Peter Maddocks (1928); James Robinson (1963)

Notable Events:

Cecil Aldin, Tom Browne, Walter Churcher, Dudley Hardy and Phil May founded the Sketch Club in 1898, located in Dilke Street in London.
Clock Summer in with Horrabin television show, devised by (and starring) Dot And Carrie creator J.F. Horrabin, broadcast in 1938.
The first meeting of the Cartoonist Club of Great Britain took place in 1960.
John Brown Media founded in 1987 in order to publish HotAir and Viz - both previously published by Virgin.
Willie Rushton was the subject of the BBC television show This is Your Life in 1987.
The Deadline Signing Tour began at Ace, in Colchester, Essex, in 1989, before moving on to the Acme Comic Shop in Brixton.
Frank Quitely exhibition began at Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow in 2017.

On This Day: 16 Feb

Nikki (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (23 Feb 1985).
Comic Relief Comic (Fleetway Publications; 1991).

Judge Dredd: Wetworks by Dave Stone. (Virgin Publishing; Feb 1995) ISBN-10: 0352329750.

First Appearances:

Sergeant Mike Mason (Hit and Run!) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #126 (19 Feb 1977).
Fludd (The Dead) in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 510 (21 Feb 1987).

Births:

John Worsley (1919); Carol Baker (1938); Warren Ellis (1968); Ron Wilson

Deaths:

Norman Pett (1960); Alfred Mazure (1974); Sheridan Morley (2007); Brett Ewins (2015); Mick O'Connor (2015)

Notable Events:

Ernest Howard Shepard was made an acting captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery, while second-in-command of a siege battery, in 1917.
Liquidators were appointed for The Cardal Publishing Company Limited in 1951.
The Comic Relief Comic went on sale in 1991. Uniting characters from a number of companies (from television as well as comics), for the first (and, predictably, last) time in the name of charity. Things didn't exactly go to plan, and a hoped-for second printing wasn't made available for Comic Relief's big day.
The Commando website was officially launched in 2011, with information on the hardware featured in each issue along with other interactive elements.
Facebook suspended the official Viz page in 2016, only to reinstate it later in the day with a halfhearted apology.

On This Day: 01 Jan

Invasion (Rebellion; 2014)
Savage: Taking Liberties (Rebellion; 2014)

Judge Dredd - Solo by Jonathan Clements. (Big Finish Productions; 2005)

Births:

Tony Weare (1912); Walt Howarth (1928); Steve Way (1959); Lionel Hale (1977)

Notable Events:

Osbert Lancaster's 'pocket cartoon' appeared in The Daily Express in 1939 for the first time, accompanying Tom Driberg's "William Hickey" gossip column.
Ron Smith was in a car crash, which involved a highland bull, in Scotland in 1953.
Frank Brown (Eccles) became a full-time cartoonist with The Daily Worker in 1959.
The Fat Slags animated television series began on Channel 4 in 1992.

On This Day: 14 Dec

2000 A.D. (Rebellion) Prog 2006 (2005).
The X-Files Special Edition (Manga Publishing Ltd.) magazine (1995).

St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold Original Soundtrack (2009)

First Appearances:

Sgt. Bob Grant (Guerilla Grant) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #482 (17 Dec 1983).

Births:

Alfred Edmeades Bestall (1892); Jack Prout (1900); Ruth Adam (1907); Harry Hanan (1916); Anthony Masters (1940)

Deaths:

Dick Ericson (1988)

Notable Events:

Douglas Bader crashed at Woodley Airfield, while attempting low-flying manouvers, in 1931. His surgeon, J. Leonard Joyce, would amputate his legs (one above, and one below the knee) in the emergency surgery required to save his life.
Judge Dredd made an appearance at the Strange Days Comic Shop, 9A The Parade, Northgate, Croydon, in 1991.
Girl Chat newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1992.
John Brown questioned in 1989 by Anti–Terrorist Branch about a Top Tip printed in Viz #38.

On This Day: 10 Dec

St. Trinians: the Soundtrack (2007)

Births:

Ernest Howard Shepard (1879); Richard Doyle (1883); Reginald Ben Davis (1907); Roy F. Brown (1921); Severino Baraldi (1930); Alan Fennell (1936)

Deaths:

Roland Davies (1993); Alan Fennell (2001); John Berry (2009)

Notable Events:

The Pater newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1928.
Viz was officially launched, at the Gosforth Hotel, in 1979.
St. Trinians feature film, of Ronald Searle's characters, released in 2007.
The Canny Comic Con, at Newcastle's City Library, began in 2011.

On This Day: 07 Dec

Births:

Freddie Adkins (1894); Barry Kitson (1957); Lee Brimmicombe-Wood (1963)

Notable Events:

The first issue of Viz was collected from the printers in 1979.
Willie Rushton hosted the ninth episode of Friday Night, Saturday Morning, on BBC 2, in 1979.
John Wagner, Alan Grant and Simon Bisley attended a Judge Dredd/Batman: Judgement on Gotham signing at Virgin Megastore, Marble Arch, London, in 1991.
Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD released on DVD in 2015.

On This Day: 04 Nov

Batman/Judge Dredd: Die Laughing (Egmont Fleetway Limited) Book Two (1998)

Births:

Sydney J. Bounds (1920)

Deaths:

Kimon Evan Marengo (KEM; 1988); John Gillatt (2016)

Notable Events:

Stanley Franklin celebrated becoming editorial cartoonist at The Sun, in 1974, by depicting himself bombing the Houses of Parliament.
Thirty Years of Viz exhibition began in the Cartoon Museum, London in 2009.
The Unknown Terry Challis exhibition began in Watford Museum’s Space2 Gallery in 2010.

On This Day: 28 Oct

Doctor Who: Conversion (Titan Comics; 2015)

The Life and Times of Death's Head (Marvel Comics Ltd.) tpb (1990)
Kids Alive! 125 (Shield Books; 2006) ISBN-13: 978-0854127535

Births:

Malcolm Douglas (1954); Joel Meadows (1972)

Deaths:

James Walker (1984); James Edward Anthony Tyler (Tony Tyler; 2006)

Notable Events:

"Ullo!" (also known as Carry on Sergeant) began a run at New Oxford Theatre in 1925.
Television animation The Adventures Of Rupert Bear premièred on ITV in 1969, with one of the catchiest theme tunes ever heard.
The book launch for The Viz Bumper Book Of Shite at Porchester Hall, London, a number of C–list celebrities in attendance, took place in 1993. It – predictably and hilariously – ended rather badly...
David Austin's last cartoon appeared in The Guardian in 2005.