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.
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Monday, April 1, 2019
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
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.
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.
Friday, December 7, 2018
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.
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.
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