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Showing posts with label Malcolm Muggeridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malcolm Muggeridge. Show all posts

Sunday, March 24, 2019

On This Day: 24 Mar

The A-Team Spring Special (Marvel) #02 (1986).
Fraggle Rock Spring Special (Marvel) #nn (1986).
Get Along Gang Spring Special (Marvel) Collected Comics #02 (1986).
Secret Wars II Spring Special (Marvel) #01 (1986).
Transformers Spring Special (Marvel) Collected Comics #3 (1986).
Zoids Spring Special (Marvel) Collected Comics #01 (1986).
Team Toxic Classic Comic Collection in Toxic (Egmont) #159 (2010).

The Adventures of Meng and Ecker by David Britton. (Savoy Books; 1997)
Horror Panegyric by Keith Seward. (Savoy Books; 2008) ISBN-13: 978-0861301188.

Births:

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903); Glenn Fabry (1961); Steve Pugh (1966)

Deaths:

Ernest Howard Shepard (1976)

Notable Events:

The Greens newspaper strip ended in 1990.
Alan Grant, Simon Jacob, David Roach and John Tomlinson took part in a 2000 A.D. signing session at Forbidden Planet, 5 Duke Street, Cardiff, in 1990.

Monday, November 26, 2018

On This Day: 26 Nov

Warlord - Peter Flint Special (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) nn [1976].
Rammie (Comic Football) #01 (2009).

EuroTemps Edited by Alex Stewart & Neil Gaiman. (Penguin; 1992)

First Appearances:

The Urnaks are Coming! in The Victor (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #93 (01 Dec 1962).

Births:

Angus McGill (1927)

Deaths:

Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1940)

Notable Events:

London première of The Better 'Ole took place in 1926, starring Syd Chaplin as Old Bill.
Malcolm Muggeridge was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1956.
Crash magazine ran a sixteen-page feature on the Judge Death computer game, including reprints of the Dredd strip the game was based on, plus a Judge Anderson pin-up by Brett Ewins, in 1987.
Clare in the Community radio series, based on the newspaper strip, began on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.
Borders (UK) Limited announced that they had gone into administration in 2009.
Bryan and Mary Talbot attended a signing event at Forbidden Planet, London, in 2014.
Sheffield Comic & Film Fair began in The Showroom, Paternoster Row, Sheffield, in 2016.

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

On This Day: 14 Nov

The Best of Britain’s Political Cartoons 2013 edited by Tim Benson. (Scribe UK; 2013) ISBN-13: 978-1922247049.

Births:

Alberto Giolitti (1923); Carlos Pacheco (1962)

Deaths:

Malcolm Muggeridge (1990)

Notable Events:

Alan Moore appeared on the music television show The Tube in 1986.
Signing event at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington for Dinosaurs: A Celebration in 1992. Dan Abnett, John Bolton, Doug Braithwaite, Phil Gascoine, John Higgins, Kev Hopgood, Andy Lanning, Dermot Power, Liam Sharp and Nick Vince were present to sign copies of the book.
Stan Lee continued his signing tour at Forbidden Planet, 59 Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1991.
Simon Coleby, Gary Frank and Paul Neary signed copies of Marvel UK comics in a Forbidden Planet promotion at The Conservatory, St. Giles High Street, in 1992. Primarily an event to celebrate the launch of Death's Head II, the signing also served to highlight the success of Overkill.
The first episode of Bernard's Watch broadcast in 1997. Though not based on a comic, it shares many similarities to the Stan Still's Stopwatch strip originally published in Buster.
Beanotown Racing PC game released in 2003.
Thought Bubble Comic Convention began, in Leeds at Saviles & Royal Armouries Hall, in 2011.
An Evening with Jonathan Cape Graphic Novels took place at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, in 2012.
Leeds Comic Con, part of Thought Bubble, the Leeds Comic Art Festival, began in 2015.