On This Day: 07 Apr

The Eagle (Hulton Press Ltd.) vol.1 #01 (14 Apr 1950)
Civil War (Panini UK) #01 (2016)

The Rime of the Modern Mariner by Nick Hayes (Jonathan Cape; 2011) ISBN-10: 0 22409 025 9
Sooner or Later by Peter Milligan, Brendan McCarthy & Jamie Hewlett (Rebellion; 2016)

First Appearances:

Fudge the Elf in newspaper strip (1938).
The Adventures of P.C.49 in The Eagle vol.1 #01 (14 Apr 1950).
Professor Brittain in The Eagle vol.1 #01 (14 Apr 1950).
Rob Conway in The Eagle vol.1 #01 (14 Apr 1950).
Dan Dare [1] in The Eagle vol.1 #01 (14 Apr 1950).
Captain Pugwash in The Eagle vol.1 #01 (14 Apr 1950).
Skippy the Kangaroo in The Eagle vol.1 #01 (14 Apr 1950).
Tommy Walls in The Eagle vol.1 #01 (14 Apr 1950).
It Happened on D-Day in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #81 (10 Apr 1976).
Fink Angel in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 160 (12 Apr 1980).
Legend of the Linkits in Eagle and Tiger (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #212 (12 Apr 1986).

Births:

Gilbert Arthur à Beckett (1837); David Low (1891); David Ghilchik (1892); Primrose Cumming (1915); Peter Fluck (1941); Frank Wynne (1962)

Deaths:

William Heath (1840); Neville Duke (2007); Dora Jessie Saint (Miss Read; 2012)

Notable Events:

Fudge The Elf newspaper strip began in the Manchester Evening News in 1938.
A Raymond Briggs interview, in The Independent in 2004, revealed he is unhappy discussing The Snowman.
Clara Casian's short film House on the Borderland was screened, as part of La Modiva, in 2017.