On This Day: 02 Mar

Eagle (IPC Magazines Ltd.) vol. #259 (07 Mar 1987). new look issue
Disney Mirror free with The Daily Mirror (1991).

First Appearances:

John Bull in Law is a Bottomless Pit by Dr. John Arbuthnot (1714) ?
Corporal Tom Parker (Parker's Private Army) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #128 (05 Mar 1977).
Paul Cannon (The Avenger) in Eagle #259 (07 Mar 1987).
Major Bronski (Comrade Bronski) in Eagle #259 (07 Mar 1987).
Mark Davies (Survival) in Eagle #259 (07 Mar 1987).

Births:

Alex Graham (1917); Ken Langstaff (1918); Simon Coleby (1967); Andrew Wildman

Deaths:

Frank Eric Smith (Trow; 1908); J.F. (James Francis) Horrabin (1962); Paul Raymond (2008); Bruce Cornwell (2012)

Notable Events:

Dot And Carrie ended in The Evening News with strip #11,735 in 1962.
The Fosdyke Saga newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1971.
John Noakes presented a brief history of British comics on Blue Peter in 1972.
The Fink Brothers' Mutants in Mega-City One single dropped to #75 in 1985. It would be the song's last chart sighting.
The Disney Mirror 8–page newspaper giveaway began in 1991.
Bryan Talbot did a presentation and signing at the Trent Building, University Park Campus, University of Nottingham, in 2011.
Jessica Martin's Picture Palace exhibition began at the Radlett Centre's Althorp Gallery, London, in 2015.
Bryan and Mary Talbot gave a talk in the Colin Matthew Room, Ground Floor, Radcliffe Humanities Building, University of Oxford, in 2018.

On This Day: 15 Nov

Marshal Law: Kingdom of the Blind (Apocalypse) #01 (1990)
Treasury of British Comics Misty Book 2

British Comics: A Cultural History by James Chapman. (Reaktion Books; 2011)

Births:

Arthur Ferrier (1890); Patrick Nicolle (1907); Paul Raymond (1925)

Deaths:

Paul Rigby (2006); Paul 'Gamma' Gamble (2010)

Notable Events:

On this day in 1958 The Economist published a report entitled 'No Laughing Matter' regarding British comics, stating combined sales of titles to be in the region of £11 million.
Flook daily newspaper strip concluded in 1985. It continued in The Sunday Mirror thereafter.
Stan Lee continued his signing tour at Forbidden Planet, 3 Teviot Place, Edinburgh, in 1991. He also appeared at the store in Glasgow later in the day.
Thought Bubble One Day Comic Convention took place in Leeds in Saviles Hall in 2008.
The Illustrators: British Art of Illustration 1800-2008 exhibition began at the Chris Beetles Gallery, St James's, London, in 2008.
Thought Bubble Comic Convention began, as part of the Leeds Comic Art Festival, at Armouries Square, Leeds, in 2011.
Thought Bubble Comic Convention began, as part of the Leeds Comic Art Festival, at Armouries Square, Leeds, in 2014.
Bryan Talbot signing for the Grandville: Force Majeure exhibition launch, at Orbital Comics, London, in 2017.