On This Day: 29 Nov

Treasury of British Comics Faceache: The First Hundred Scrunges

Durham Red: The Encoded Heart by Peter J. Evans (Black Flame; Nov 2005) ISBN-10: 1 84416 272 9
St. Trinians novelisation by Pippa Le Quesne, based on the screenplay by Piers Ashworth & Nick Moorcroft. Original characters created by Ronald Searle (Puffin Books; Nov 2007) ISBN-13: 978-0141324173

First Appearances:

Billy Masters (Vengeance Trail) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #219 (02 Dec 1978).

Births:

Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (1836); James Affleck Shepherd (1866); George Stampa (1875); Edward George Warris Hulton (1906); George Cansdale (1909); Les Lilley (1924); Massimo Fenati (1969)

Deaths:

Dave Westaway (2014)

On This Day: 12 Oct

Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet (GE Magazines) #01 (2005).
Beano Christmas Special 2016 (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.; 2016].

Zero (Dennis Publishing Ltd. / Felden Productions) #1 (Nov 1989) magazine

Durham Red: The Unquiet Grave by Peter J. Evans (Black Flame; Sep 2004) ISBN-10: 1 84416 159 5

Births:

Dan Abnett (1965); Luke Pearson (1987)

Deaths:

Charles Henry Ross (1897)

Notable Events:

Patti newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1959.
The world première of the feature film documentary For No Good Reason, about Ralph Steadman, took place at the 2012 London Film Festival.