On This Day: 09 Jan

Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgement on Gotham (Fleetway Editions) Newsstand Edition (1992).
Look and Learn - The Best of the Classic Children's Magazine (Look and Learn Magazine Ltd.) #01 (2006).

First Appearances:

Frank Hart, The Visible Man in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 47 (14 Jan 1978).
Sugarman in Amstrad Action (Future Publishing) #05 (Feb 1986).

Births:

Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811); George Machin (1893); John Barradale Melhuish (Mel; 1893); Tony Harding (1942); Gary James (1978)

Deaths:

Warwick Reynolds, Sr. (1896); Peter Cook (1995); Ed "Stewpot" Stewart (2016)

Notable Events:

Ian Hislop was a castaway on Desert Island Discs, on BBC Radio 4, in 1994.
Pip, Squeak and Wilfred newspaper strip reprints ended in 1999.
Escape Books Limited incorporate in 2009, becoming company #06787433.

On This Day: 17 Nov

Battle-Action (IPC Magazines Ltd.) #142 (19 Nov 1977).
Roy of the Rovers Winter Special (Fleetway Publications; 1989].
DC Comics Showcase: Harley Quinn (Titan Comics) #01 (Nov 2016)

Judge Dredd: Silencer by David Bishop. (Virgin Publishing; 1994) ISBN-10: 0352329602.

First Appearances:

Sgt. Pete Coker (Coker's Commandos) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #426 (20 Nov 1982).

Births:

Benjamin Edwin Minns (1863); Hector Breeze (1928); Don Lawrence (1928); Peter Cook (1937); Jonathan Ross (1960)

Notable Events:

The Sun newspaper was redesigned in 1969, with Paul Rigby's cartoons appearing prominently.
Bear newspaper strip began in The Sun in 1969.
Punch 150th Anniversary Exhibition ended, at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in 1991.
The inaugural British Comic Awards took place during the Thought Bubble convention in 2012.
The first episode of Frank Sidebottom's Proper Telly Show in B/W broadcast on Channel M in 2006.
A cartoon by Stanley McMurtry in The Daily Mail depicting immigrants, published in 2015, was criticised for its links to Nazi propaganda imagery. The newspaper denied any wrongdoing... Naturally.