Well I want to start this off with a big Happy Birthday to comic book artist and Facebook Friend Bill Reinhold. Back when both I and Bill were much younger I bothered him at his table at the 1990 Chicago Con and convinced him that a Badger and Mavis sketch would be a great thing (for me of course). Needless to say he was nice enough to do it. The work was large and intricate and must have taken him more time than what I paid for it. It sits proud amongst my collection of works and serves both as art and a memory of the event. Of late, I was glad to have run into Bill at SDCC in 2009, it was great to have met him again after 19 years. Happy Birthday Bill !!
Now, onto other birthdays and events. As always I recommend reading through the list. Today I dug a little deeper and put a little trivia in for some of the people. It's just little factoids that caught my interest and hopefully yours. So without spoiling anything, read on.
Oh and also when you get to the events portion let's see you get the song "Believe It or Not" out of your head.
Birthdays
| Bill Reinhold 1955, artist and inker, Reinhold has been drawing and inking comic books professionally since 1981. He's done work most notably for First Comics, Marvel Comics,[1] and DC Comics. Reinhold is known mostly for drawing characters such as The Badger, Punisher, Batman, and Silver Surfer. As a comic book inker he's worked with other artists on Marvel Comics books such as Daredevil, the Earth-X trilogy, The Hulk, and The Amazing Spider-Man. At DC Comics he has done inking on such comic series as Challengers of The Unknown, The Book Of Fate, Batman, Green Arrow, and Brave And The Bold. |
| Sam Grainger 1924, comic book artist best known as a Marvel Comics inker during the 1960s and 1970s periods. Series on which he worked include The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk and X-Men. |
| Frank McLaughlin 1935, comic book artist who co-created the character Judomaster ; a comic strip illustrator who served as a successor artist on such strips as Nancy and Brenda Starr ; and an author of books about cartooning and comic art. In early 1972, McLaughlin left Charlton to freelance for both DC and Marvel Comics. His first work for the former was The Flash #215 (May 1972), co-inking (with Dick Giordano) penciler Irv Novick. Settling into his career as an inker, McLaughlin did a few stories for that series as well as a handful of backup features, then became a regular at Marvel, inking the likes of Wayne Boring on Captain Marvel and Sal Buscema on Captain America and The Defenders before becoming primarily a DC inker. Throughout the 1970s, McLaughlin inked backup stories featuring the Atom, Black Lightning, Zatanna, and "The Fabulous World of Krypton", among others, and became the regular series inker for penciler Dick Dillin's Justice League of America, and for some issues of penciler Ernie Chan's Batman stories in Detective Comics, and Joe Staton's Green Lantern. Concurrently, he wrote martial-arts articles for Marvel's black-and-white comics magazine The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu.McLaughlin also drew for such comic strips as Brenda Starr, Nancy, and The World's Greatest Superheroes. In 2001, he took over the art for Jack Berrill's Tribune Media sports strip Gil Thorp until February 2008, when the art for the strip was turned over to Frank Bolle. |
| Eugene (Gene) Byrnes 1889, cartoonist, created the long running comic strip Reg'lar Fellers, which he signed Gene Byrnes. His humorous look at suburban children (who nevertheless spoke like New York street kids) was distributed by various syndicates from 1917 to 1949. |
| Peter Graves 1926, actor, Chris Cronyn - Red Planet Mars (1952), Dr. Doug Paul Martin - Killers from Space (1954), Dr. Paul Nelson - It Conquered the World (1956), Dr. Ed Wainwright - Beginning of the End (1957), Narrator of USAF Briefing Film - The Eye Creatures (1965) (TV), Sgt. Gavin Lewis - The Invaders (1 episode, 1967), Major Noah Cooper - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century(1 episode, "Return of the Fighting 69th", 1979), General Warning/Narrator - The Angry Beavers (1 episode, "The Day the Earth Got Really Screwed Up", 1998), Narrator - Mickey Mouse Works (1 episode, 1999), Instructor Voice - House of Mouse (segment 'How to Be a Spy') (1 episode, "Clarabelle's Big Secret", 2001), Host of Civil Defense film - Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), Mr. Pibb - American Dad! (1 episode, "A.T. Abused Terestrial", 2007). |
| Ben Gage 1914, actor, Clerk - Batman (1 episode, "Marsha, Queen of Diamonds", 1966), Akaar - Star Trek (1 episode, "Friday's Child", 1967), Brother Bear - Coonskin (1975) (voice). He was married to actress/singer Esther Williams. |
| Jack B. Sowards 1929, actor/writer, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) (screenplay) (story), "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1 episode, "Where Silence Has Lease", 1988)(writer). It was Sowards' draft of Wrath of Khan which convinced actor Leonard Nimoy to resume his role of Spock. Sowards persuaded Nimoy to sign on by having Spock die in the script. |
| Stephen Edward Poe 1936, author, In 1968, under the name Stephen E. Whitfield, he published The Making of Star Trek, a book he wrote with Gene Roddenberry. For many years, this was the only book on the production of Star Trek. Thirty years later, he published his second Star Trek book, A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager. |
| John Garman "J.G." Hertzler 1949, actor, Weathers Farrington - Quantum Leap (1 episode, "Sea Bride - June 3, 1954", 1990), Marcus Korolus - Highlander (1 episode, "See No Evil", 1992), Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero (1 episode, "Tails from the Crypts (Aboras & Banilla)" ), Trey - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (2 episodes, "Lord of the Flys", "Battleground Earth", 1996), Martok / Patron in Vic's Lounge / Laas / Roy Ritterhouse - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (27 episodes, 1993-1999), Hirogen Hunter - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "Tsunkatse", 2000), Mr. Lafeber - Roswell (1 episode, "Ask Not", 2000), Advocate Kolos / Klingon Captain - Star Trek:Enterprise (2 episodes, "Judgment", "Borderland", 2003-2004), Koval - Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007) (V), Dr. Lattis - InAlienable (2010). He is one of only four actors to play seven different characters on Star Trek. |
| Bradford Claude Dourif 1950, actor, Piter De Vries - Dune (1984), Luther Lee Boggs - The X-Files (1 episode, "Beyond the Sea", 1994), Brother Edward - Babylon 5 (1 episode, "Passing Through Gethsemane", 1995), Crewman Lon Suder - Star Trek: Voyager (3 episodes, "Meld", "Basics, part 1 & 2", 1996), Dr. Jonathan Gediman - Alien: Resurrection (1997), Weber - Interceptors (1999), Grima Wormtongue - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). He was the voice of the evil doll Chucky in Child's Play (1988) and its sequels. |
| Vanessa L. Williams 1963, actress/singer, Arandis - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "Let He Who Is Without Sin…", 1996), Alexandra 'Alex' Torres - Futuresport (1998) (TV). |
| Edward Everett Horton 1886, actor, Fractured Fairy Tales narrator - Rocky and His Friends (12 episodes, 1959-1960), Narrator (segment "Fractured Fairy Tales") - The Bullwinkle Show (1961) TV series (voice), Ned Matthews - Dennis The Menace (3 episodes, 1962-1963), Chief Screaming Chicken - Batman (2 episodes, "An Egg Grows in Gotham", "The Yegg Foes in Gotham", 1966). |
| Richard Biggs 1960, actor, Dr. Tomson - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "The Toys of Caliban", 1986), Hawkes - The Alien Within (1995) (TV), Stephen Franklin, M.D. - Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998) (TV), Stephen Franklin, M.D. - Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998) (TV), Stephen Franklin, M.D. - Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998) (TV), Dr. Stephen Franklin - Babylon 5 (110 episodes, 1994-1998), Dr. Stephen Franklin - Crusade (1 episode, "Each Night I Dream of Home", 1999), Sergeant Franklin - Starship II: Rendezvous with Ramses (2010) (post-production). |
| Queen Latifah 1970, actress/singer, Alice 'Teeny' Fletcher - Sphere (1998), Dove - Pinocchio (2002) (voice: English version), Pam Dromeda - The Fairly OddParents (1 episode, "Crash Nebula", 2004), Pam Dromeda - Crash Nebula (2004) (TV) (voice), Ellie - Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Lost Historical Films on the Ice Age Period (2006) (V) (voice), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) (voice). |
| Dane Cook 1972, actor/comedian, Waffler - Mystery Men (1999), Van Chancy - Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1 episode, "The Kids Are All Wrong/Win, Lose or Duck", 2005). |
Events
| 1981, The Greatest American Hero airs. |
| 1991, Star Trek:TNG, "Night Terrors" airs. |
| 1994, RoboCop: The Series airs on CTV. |
| 1996, Star Trek:Voyager, "Deadlock" airs. |
| 1998, Babylon 5 Episode 97 - "In the Kingdom of the Blind" first aired |
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