On This Day: 26 Feb

Doctor Who Comic (Titan Comics) #01 (2015)

First Appearances:

Judge Dredd in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 2 (05 Mar 1977).

Births:

John Cassell (Jack) Morrow (1872); F.H. Townsend (1868); Steve Bell (1951); Enrique Alcatena (1957)

Deaths:

Charles Folkard (1963)

Notable Events:

William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody born in 1846. Tales of his adventures (both real and imagined) would continue long after his death.
The Greens newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1987.
Cardiff International Comic Expo began, at Mercure Cardiff Holland House Hotel, in 2011.
Alice's Adventures in Comics-Land panel took place at the British Library, London, in 2016, with Paul Gravett, Chie Kutsuwada and Bryan Talbot in attendance.

On This Day: 11 Dec

First Appearances:

Keepers of the Sun Stone in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #43 (16 Dec 1961).
The Secret Quest of Tiger Shaw in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #43 (16 Dec 1961).

Births:

René Bull (1872); John Buscema (1927); Peter Firmin (1928); David William Boutland (1938)

Deaths:

F.H. Townsend (1920); Willie Rushton (1996)

Notable Events:

The Daily Mirror demonstrated their fact-checking skills by calling Judge Dredd an American comic-book character in a 1991 article.
The first episode of Black Mirror, co-written by Charlie Brooker, was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2011.
The short film Nothing to Declare, written by Frank Quitely, was funded through IndieGoGo in 2016.