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: 10 Jan

Births:

Mike Butterworth (1924); Patrick Blower (1959)

Deaths:

Annette Mills (1955); William Augustus Sillince (Silenus; 1974); John Buscema (2002)

Notable Events:

William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody died in 1917.
The pilot episode of Frank Sidebottom's Fantastic Shed Show broadcast in 1992.
Richard Horne (Harry Horse) and his wife Mandy were found dead in their remote bungalow on Burra, in 2007, in an apparent suicide pact.

On This Day: 04 Oct

Victor and Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #1338 (11 Oct 1986).

Births:

Sidney Edward Paget (1860); Basil Hone (1926)

Deaths:

Dino Battaglia (1983); Mike Butterworth (1986); Josè Maria Jorge (2010); Brian Williams (2010)

Notable Events:

Camille and her Boss newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1937.
The Crisis tour ended in SF Bookshop in Edinburgh in 1988, with Jim Baikie, Carlos Ezquerra, Igor Goldkind, Steve MacManus, Pat Mills and John Smith signing autographs.
Birmingham International Comics Show began in Birmingham in 2008.
Locomotive 57302, owned by Direct Rail Services, was renamed Chad Varah in 2012.