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: 28 Jan

The Loner (Fleetway Publications) #01 (1991)

First Appearances:

Judge Anderson in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 150 (02 Feb 1980)

Births:

Mary Tourtel (1874); Hunt Emerson (1952)

Deaths:

Jerry Siegel (1996)

Notable Events:

Rupert Murdoch tweeted an apology, for the Gerald Scarfe cartoon published the previous day, in 2013.