On This Day: 26 Jan

Births:

Flora Klickmann (1867); Kaye Webb (1914); Oliver Passingham (1925); Jules Feiffer (1929); Michael Turner (1929); Bryan Berry (1930); Murray Ball (1939)

Deaths:

John Byam Liston Shaw (1919); Margaret Constance Belsky (1989); Jon Peaty (1991); Bernard Cookson (2016)

Notable Events:

The Fink Brothers appeared on Central Television in 1985, with predictable results.
Judge Dredd newspaper strip began in Metro (free newspaper) in 2004.
Striker newspaper strip resumed in Nuts magazine in 2010.
The Untitled Project uploaded part of a television pilot, based on LogoRobotComics and Brain Damage, in 2010.
The Sunday Post included a free comic examining The Broons family tree in 2014.

On This Day: 11 Nov

John Glashan's World by John Glashan. (Robinson; 1991) ISBN-13: 978-1854871046.

The Chronicle of the Black Sword by Hawkwind. (Flicknife Records; 1985)

Births:

Ian Miller (1946); John Reppion (1978)

Deaths:

Frederick Thomas Dalton (1927); Roy Davis (2004)

Notable Events:

Tiffany Jones newspaper strip began in The Daily Sketch in 1964.
Striker newspaper strip began in The Sun in 1985.
Mick Anglo, Ltd. struck off the register of companies and dissolved in 1986.
DreddCon:1 took place from mid–day to midnight, at the Posthouse Bloomsbury, London, in 2000.
Thought Bubble comic convention began, in Leeds at Saviles & Royal Armouries Hall, in 2012.
When the Wind Blows released on Blu–Ray by Twilight Time in 2014.