On This Day: 20 Apr

Space Aces! Comic Book Heroes from the Forties and Fifties! by Denis Gifford (1992)
Super Duper Supermen! Comic Book Heroes from the Forties and Fifties! by Denis Gifford (1992)

Births:

Rudolph Ackermann (1764); Herbert Foxwell (1890); Giorgio Olivetti (1908); Terry Maloney (1917); John McNamara (1918); Carole E. Barrowman (1959); Igor Goldkind (1960); Asia Alfasi (1984)

Deaths:

Robert Seymour (1836); Will Spencer (2002)

Notable Events:

The fourth Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival began in 2007.
The BBC 4 radio series The Reunion, broadcast in 2008, celebrated D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd. comics by asking editors, writers and artists to talk about their work. Contributors included Walter Fearn, Jim Petrie, Bill Ritchie and Dave Torrie, with archive recordings of Leo Baxenedale, Tony Robinson, Michael Rosen, A.N. Wilson and Jacqueline Wilson, among others.