On This Day: 30 Mar

Disney Elena of Avalor (Panini) #01 (2017)

First Appearances:

Marlon Shakespeare (Chopper) in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 206 (04 Apr 1981).

Births:

Lawrence Hector Siggs (1900); Kurt Caesar (1906); Jack Trevor Story (1917); Richard Evans (1945)

Deaths:

Rudolph Ackermann (1834); Franco Cosimo Panini (2007)

Notable Events:

The Exeter Express & Echo slandered John Gullidge's magnificent Samhain magazine one more, with further sensationalist, exploitational nonsense.
Hawkwind: Do Not Panic television documentary broadcast on BBC 4 in 2007.
The Mindscape of Alan Moore 2–disc DVD released in the UK in 2007.

On This Day: 05 Dec

First Appearances:

Jane Gay in newspaper strip.

Births:

Betty Larom (1920); Sheridan Morley (1941); Gary Smith (1963)

Deaths:

Jack Trevor Story (1991)

Notable Events:

Jane's Journal - The Diary of a Bright Young Thing newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1932.
Sebastian Melmoth II, the author of Do What the F**k I Say, was revealed to be Felix Dennis in 2013.