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.