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: 18 Nov

2000 A.D. Winter Special [#2] (Fleetway Publications; 1989].

Judge Dredd - I ❤ Judge Dredd by Jonathan Clements. (Big Finish Productions; 2002)

Births:

Derek Ivor Breashur McCulloch (Uncle Mac; 1897); Nadir Quinto (1918); Alan Moore (1953)

Deaths:

Reg Parlett (1991); David Langdon (2011); Richard Willson (2011)

Notable Events:

Dot and Carrie newspaper strip began in The Star in 1922.
Millie and her Brother Richard newspaper strip ended in 1995.
Girl Chat newspaper strip ended in 1995.
Alan Moore performed a reading at a Victorian magistrate's court in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1995. The show was released as The Birth Caul: A Shamantism of Childhood with music by David J. and Tim Perkins.
Bob Monkhouse's hand-written joke books were recovered by his agent, Peter Pritchard, in 1996.
The Mindscape of Alan Moore DVD released in the UK in 2006.
The first episode of Cranford aired on BBC One in 2007. Posy Simmonds drew the opening titles for the series.
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 2012.