On This Day: 18 Apr

Tottering-By-Gently: Vol. III (The O'Shea Gallery; 2003) ISBN-13: 978-0953277223

First Appearances:

Luke Kirby (Summer Magic) in 2000 A.D. (Fleetway Publications) Prog 571 (1988).

Births:

Des Taylor (1971)

Deaths:

Frank Reynolds (1953); Edward Barker (1997)

Notable Events:

Nelson and Tik and Tok newspaper strips ended in 1925.
The Jinks Family newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1927.
The Daily Express published the final Jeff Hawke strip in 1974.
Forbidden Planet (New York) opened at 821 Broadway (at 12th), New York, in 1981.
The Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival took place on this day in 2008.
Alan Moore: Storyteller by Gary Spencer Millidge was released in 2011.
The inaugural Birmingham Comics Festival began at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground in 2015.

On This Day: 15 Feb

Once Upon a Time (1969).
Troubled Souls (Fleetway Publications; 1990].

Births:

H.M. Bateman (1887); Sir John William Maxwell Aitken, 2nd Baronet, DSO, DFC (1910); Art Spiegelman (1948); Martin Rowson (1959)

Deaths:

Rinaldo Dami (1979)

Notable Events:

Jeff Hawke newspaper strip began in The Daily Express in 1955.
The Winged Avenger, the sixth episode of the fifth season of The Avengers, broadcast in 1967. Artwork for the episode was provided by Frank Bellamy.
Decimal Day, when the new British currency came into use in 1971, changed the cover price of every comic, annual and book on sale. It was a remarkably smooth transition, with increases in price staved off as long as possible.