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Showing posts with label Nick Park. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

On This Day: 19 Dec

Deaths:

Albert Barnes (1982); Ron Turner (1998)

Notable Events:

Eagle arranged for twenty Club members to tour Eric Bemrose Ltd., and see the latest issue of the title roll off the press, in 1952.
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's feature film released in the UK in 1957.
Rebellion began selling digital editions of 2000 A.D. in 2007.
Nick Park was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 2010.

Thursday, December 6, 2018

On This Day: 06 Dec

Warlord and Bullet (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #220 (09 Dec 1978).

Grandville: Bete Noir (2013)

Births:

Reg Carter (1886); Bruce Angrave (1912); Nick Park (1958); Robin Riggs (1961); Paul Jenkins (1965); Noel Clarke (1975)

Deaths:

Jane star Christabel Leighton–Porter (2000); Lesley Hatch (2014)

Notable Events:

Little Willie, the first British tank, was completed in 1915. The name derived from William Kerridge Haselden's cartoons of Kaiser Wilhelm and his son, The Crown Prince.
A Trip into the Future newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1924.