On This Day: 25 Dec

Births:

US cartoonist Robert Ripley (1890); Philip Zacanovsky (Philip Zec; 1909); Eric Hebden (1910); Don Melia (1953); Dylan Teague (1973)

Deaths:

William Kerridge Haselden (1953); Art Wetherell (2003); Suzanne Henriette Einzig (2009); Anthony J. Bryant (2013)

Notable Events:

Film and comic strip star Charlie Chaplin died in 1977.
The television short Statuesque, written and directed by Neil Gaiman, was broadcast by Sky in 2009.
The fourth Gorillaz studio album, The Fall, was released to members of their fan club in 2010.

On This Day: 03 Dec

The Dandy (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (04 Dec 1937).
Doctor Who Magazine Winter Special (Marvel Comics UK Ltd.) nn (1992).

First Appearances:

Barney Boko in The Dandy #01 (04 Dec 1937).
Desperate Dan in The Dandy #01 (04 Dec 1937).
Keyhole Kate in The Dandy #01 (04 Dec 1937).
Korky the Cat in The Dandy #01 (04 Dec 1937).
Sergeant Joe Fisher (Operation Husky) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #324 (06 Dec 1980).
Dennehy (Junker) in 2000 A.D. (Fleetway Publications) Prog 708 (08 Dec 1990).

Births:

William Kerridge Haselden (1872); Dan Escott (1928)

Notable Events:

I Feel Good (Holdings) Limited incorporated in 1999.
The Independent included a five-page tribute to The Dandy in 2007 in the form of a comic strip by Ken Harrison.