On This Day: 15 Mar

Big K (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #01 (Apr 1984).
Beyond #01 (1995)

King Solomon's Mines (Bear Alley Books; 2013) ISBN-13: 9781907081699.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson; w: Mike Butterworth, a: John Millar Watt. (Bear Alley Books; Mar 2013) ISBN-13: 9781907081682

Births:

Sir Hildebrand Aubrey Harmsworth, 1st Baronet (1872); Eugenio Juan Zoppi (1923); Mervyn Haisman (1928); John Coulthart (1962)

Deaths:

Mary Tourtel (1948); Joseph Lee (1975); Nadir Quinto (1994)

Notable Events:

Keyboard Skills one-panel cartoon gags, by Tony Benyon, began in Big K magazine in 1984.
The BBC Schools television block broadcast a feature on "new wave" comics (including Crisis) in 1989.
UKCAC began at the Institute of Education, London, in 1997.
London Super Comic Convention began at ExCel Centre, London, in 2014.

On This Day: 13 Dec

Births:

Hugh McNeill (1910); Frank Benier (1919)

Deaths:

John Millar Watt (1975); R.D. Low (1980); Janet Ahlberg (1994)

Notable Events:

A blue plaque commemorating Bruce Bairnsfather was unveiled in St Yvon, Belgium, in 2003.

On This Day: 14 Oct

Thunderbirds Are Go (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (2015)

Marshal Law: Origins by Pat Mills & Kevin O'Neill (Titan Books; 2008)

Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphles by Michael Moorcock. (BBC Books; 2010) ISBN-13: 978-1-84607-983-2.

Judge Dredd - Get Karter! by David Bishop (Big Finish Productions; 2002)

Births:

John Millar Watt (1895); Phillip Mendoza (Flam; Pip; Spike; 1898); Colin Merrett (1914)

Deaths:

Reginald Heade (1957); William Blain (1984); William John Hooper (Raff; 1996); Frank Benier (1998); Graham Coton (2003); Ray Lowry (2008)

Notable Events:

Neil Gaiman's radio adaptation of his graphic novel Signal to Noise was broadcast as part of Between the Ears in 1996. Dave McKean provided the music.
The Comica Company Ltd. incorporated in 2011, becoming company #07811409.
Lakes International Comic Art Festival began, in Kendal, Cumbria, in 2015.