Today seems like the day for a lot of comic book artists. I'm sure you'll recognise a lot of them.
Enjoy !!!
Birthdays
| Frank Bolle 1924, comic book artist, He has worked on several newspaper comic strips, including Debbie Deere (1966-1969), Alexander Gate (1970-1971), Winnie Winkle (1983-2003), The Heart of Juliet Jones (1991-1999), and Apartment 3-G (1999- ). He started doing the Gil Thorp strip on an interim basis in the late '90s, and again in February 2008. Bolle did the artwork for several Gold Key Comics, including Doctor Solar and Buck Rogers. He also did the cover for Black Phantom 1 (1954). |
| Larry Hama 1949, He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro action figures. He has also written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon. During the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live. |
| Graham Ingels 1915, comic book and magazine illustrator best known for his work at the EC Comics company during the 1950s, notably on The Haunt of Fear and Tales from the Crypt, horror titles written and edited by Al Feldstein, and The Vault of Horror, written and edited by Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Ingels' flair for horror led EC to promote him as Ghastly Graham Ingels, and he began signing his work Ghastly in 1952. As the lead artist for The Haunt of Fear, he brought to life the Old Witch, host of "The Witch's Cauldron" lead story, and he also did the cover for each issue from issue 11 through 28. A prolific artist, Ingels also drew the Old Witch's appearances in Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror, plus stories for Shock SuspenStories and Crime SuspenStories. Because of the many "Witch's Cauldron" stories he drew, he was strongly identified with the character of the Old Witch, an association that continues until the present day. After EC cancelled its horror and crime comics, Ingels contributed art to the New Direction Titles Piracy, M.D., Impact and Valor. He also later contributed to EC's short lived Picto-Fiction line. After EC ceased publication in the mid-1950s, Ingels contributed to Classics Illustrated but found little work in comics due to his notable connection with EC's horror comics. |
| Anthony Simcoe 1969, actor, best known for his portrayal of Ka D'Argo in the science fiction television series Farscape. |
| Barb Rausch 1941, comics artist and writer. She worked on a number of comics, cartoons and newspaper comic strips. She has worked on mainstream comics including Barbie comics (Marvel Comics), The Desert Peach and Omaha the Cat Dancer (Kitchen Sink Press), created work for Disney Studios, and was a continuing collaborator on Arn Saba's Neil the Horse. |
| Mark Schultz 1955, writer and illustrator of books and comics, His most widely-recognized work is his self-created and owned comic book series, Xenozoic Tales, about a post-apocalyptic world where dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures coexist with humans. He is also the current writer of the Prince Valiant comic strip. |
| Dave Sheridan 1943, cartoonist and underground comix artist. He was the creator of Dealer McDope and Tales from the Leather Nun and collaborated with Gilbert Shelton and Paul Mavrides on The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. |
| Pete Tumlinson 1920, comic book artist, book illustrator and a comic book artist whose worked appeared from the late 1940s through the 1950s in titles published by the Marvel Comics predecessors Timely Comics and Atlas Comics. His work there includes most of the early stories of the Western hero Kid Colt. His earliest confirmed comic-book work is penciling "I Hate My Husband!", an eight-page story (either co-penciled with or inked by George Klein) in the Timely Comics romance title My Own Romance #7 (July 1949). Other early credits include stories in such Western-romance comics as Cowboy Romances #3 (March 1950) and, tentatively credited, Rangeland Love #2 (March 1950). Some sources credit Tumlinson with a small amount of work on the masked-crimefighter series Blonde Phantom in 1948, and in the mythological-superheroine series Venus #6 (Aug. 1949). Another source cites early, uncredited work in D.S. Publishing's 1948-1949 crime comic Gangsters Can't Win and the Western feature "Nuggets Nugent" in Orbit Publications' 1948-1951 The Westerner Comics. |
| Gary Graham 1950, actor, Greg - The Incredible Hulk (1 episode, "Metamorphosis", 1979), Achilles - Robot Jox (1990), Detective Matthew Sikes - Alien Nation (22 episodes, 1989-1990), Det. Matthew Sikes - Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994) (TV), Capt. Ken Hetrick - M.A.N.T.I.S. (9 episodes, 1994-1995), Detective Matt Sikes - Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995) (TV), Tanis - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "Cold Fire", 1995), Detective Matt Sikes - Alien Nation: Millennium (1996) (TV), Detective Matt Sikes - Alien Nation: The Enemy Within (1996) (TV), Detective Matt Sikes - Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997) (TV), Watson - Seven Days (1 episode, "The Fire Last Time", 2000), Vulcan Ambassador Soval / Crewman Soval - Star Trek: Enterprise (12 episodes, 2001-2005), Ragnar - Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007) (V), Andreas Cabrosas - InAlienable (2008), Green - Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010) (voice). |
Events
| 1908, the Mutt and Jeff strip moved off the sports pages and into Hearst's San Francisco Examiner where it was syndicated by King Features and became a national hit |
| 1997, Perversions of Science airs on HBO. |
| 2008, Dr. Who, "Forest of the Dead" airs. |
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