Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection (Hachette Partworks Ltd.) #01 (2015) GN
First Appearances:
Judge Death in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 149 (26 Jan 1980)
Births:
Ernest Shaw (1891); Albert Lock (1893); Martin Sharp (1942)
Deaths:
Martin Honeysett (2015); Alessandro Biffignandi (2017)
Notable Events:
Notorious highwayman Claude Duval was executed at Tyburn in 1670.
Alan Coren was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1978.
John Freeman's thoughts on the future of Marvel UK, published in 1993, is available online.
A special talk about Oor Wullie's Bucket Trail began Dundee University's Saturday Evening Lecture series in 2017. David Cunningham, chief executive of the ARCHIE Foundation, and Suzanne Scott, artistic coordinator of the trail, were present at the talk, which was chaired by Ellis Watson, CEO of DC Thomson.
Showing posts with label Alan Coren. Show all posts
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Monday, January 21, 2019
Thursday, October 18, 2018
On This Day: 18 Oct
Hoot (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (26 Oct 1985)
Game Zone (Dennis Publishing) vol.1 #1 (Nov 1991).
First Appearances:
Harry Thompson (Harry Twenty on the High Rock) in 2000 A.D. Prog 287 (23 Oct 1982).
Births:
Reg Perrott (1914); Kev F. Sutherland (1961); Alexander Williams (1967)
Deaths:
Brian Davis (Michael ffolkes; 1988); Les Lilley (1998); Alan Coren (2007)
Notable Events:
Dot and Carrie newspaper strip began in the London Evening News in 1960.
The Marvel Art Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, featuring original comic artwork, began in 1975.
Action (IPC Magazines Ltd.) vol.1 #?? (23 Oct 1976) was meant to appear on this day, but the majority of the run was pulped - the remaining copies are now highly collectible.
Marvel Comics Film & Fantasy Convention began at Royal Horticultural New Hall in 1980.
The Alex theatrical adaptation began in the Arts Theatre, London in 2007.
Private Eye: The First 50 Years exhibition began, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 2011.
Lakes International Comic Art Festival began, in Kendal, Cumbria, in 2013.
Lakes International Comic Art Festival began, in Kendal, Cumbria, in 2014.
Game Zone (Dennis Publishing) vol.1 #1 (Nov 1991).
First Appearances:
Harry Thompson (Harry Twenty on the High Rock) in 2000 A.D. Prog 287 (23 Oct 1982).
Births:
Reg Perrott (1914); Kev F. Sutherland (1961); Alexander Williams (1967)
Deaths:
Brian Davis (Michael ffolkes; 1988); Les Lilley (1998); Alan Coren (2007)
Notable Events:
Dot and Carrie newspaper strip began in the London Evening News in 1960.
The Marvel Art Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, featuring original comic artwork, began in 1975.
Action (IPC Magazines Ltd.) vol.1 #?? (23 Oct 1976) was meant to appear on this day, but the majority of the run was pulped - the remaining copies are now highly collectible.
Marvel Comics Film & Fantasy Convention began at Royal Horticultural New Hall in 1980.
The Alex theatrical adaptation began in the Arts Theatre, London in 2007.
Private Eye: The First 50 Years exhibition began, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 2011.
Lakes International Comic Art Festival began, in Kendal, Cumbria, in 2013.
Lakes International Comic Art Festival began, in Kendal, Cumbria, in 2014.
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
On This Day: 02 Oct
Blooming Books by Raymond Briggs. (Transworld Publishers; 2003) ISBN-13: 9780224064781.
Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster by James Knox. (Frances Lincoln; 2008) ISBN-13: 978-0-7112-2938-9.
The Essential Alan Coren - Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks by Alan Coren; edited by Giles Coren & Victoria Coren Mitchell. (2008)
Razor King by David Britton, illustrated by Kris Guidio. (Savoy, 2017)
Births:
Colin Cotterill (1952); Anna Fitzpatrick
Notable Events:
BBC Radio 2 began broadcasting The Fosdyke Saga, based on the comic strip by Bill Tidy, in 1983.
Dreddcon 5 took place at the Oxford Union Society, St. Michael's Street, Oxford in 2004.
Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster exhibition opened at The Wallace Collection in 2008.
Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster by James Knox. (Frances Lincoln; 2008) ISBN-13: 978-0-7112-2938-9.
The Essential Alan Coren - Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks by Alan Coren; edited by Giles Coren & Victoria Coren Mitchell. (2008)
Razor King by David Britton, illustrated by Kris Guidio. (Savoy, 2017)
Births:
Colin Cotterill (1952); Anna Fitzpatrick
Notable Events:
BBC Radio 2 began broadcasting The Fosdyke Saga, based on the comic strip by Bill Tidy, in 1983.
Dreddcon 5 took place at the Oxford Union Society, St. Michael's Street, Oxford in 2004.
Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster exhibition opened at The Wallace Collection in 2008.
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