I LOVE HISTORICAL FIGURES IN TMA. MY FAVORITE IS WILFRED OWEN(Mag 007). He really was a WW1 soldier, and poet. His military experience was exactly what was described in the podcast. He was once blown into the air by a shell and landed in another soldiers remains, he was treated for shell-shock, and he died a week before the armistice. His work is considered to be some of the best from the Great War because of how well he captured the horrors :D
So Issac Newtons appearance in TMAGP 19 has sparked convo about the historical figures in TMA, Smirke and Haley, BUT DID YOU KNOW GRIMALDI WAS REAL TOO HE WAS BORN IN 1778 AND IS CONSIDERED THE FATHER OF MODERN CLOWNING