I want to say a big happy birthday to Facebook friend and comic book artist Frank Thorne. Frank made Red Sonja what she is today. Thanks for drawing her so great.
Enjoy !!!
Birthdays
| Jack Keller 1922, comic book artist best known for his 1950s and '60s work on the Marvel Comics Western character Kid Colt, and for his later hot rod and racecar series at Charlton Comics. Keller drew backgrounds for Will Eisner's acclaimed, eight-page newspaper Sunday-supplement comic The Spirit. Keller began his long association with Kid Colt in Kid Colt, Outlaw #25 (March 1953). He stayed with the character for at least a dozen years in that signature title, as well as in such anthology series as All Western Winners, Two-Gun Western and Gunsmoke Western. |
| Frank Thorne 1930, comic book artist, best known for popularizing the Marvel Comics character Red Sonja. Thorne began his comics career in 1948, penciling romance comics for Standard Comics. "After graduation, he drew the Perry Mason newspaper strip for King Features, which was followed by more comic book work for Dell. He turned out a multitude of stories for Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, The Green Hornet, and many more. Having featured in half-a-dozen issues of Conan the Barbarian (with art by Smith and John Buscema), Sonja graduated to a starring role in other comics, and it was then that Thorne took over from Dick Giordano in drawing her for Marvel Feature (Jan. 1976), continuing through most of her 1977-79 solo series, where he established her characteristic image as a ferocious and beautiful female barbarian wearing a chainmail bikini, which later became a popular fantasy literature archetype. He "left Sonja" in 1978 to create his own woman warrior, Ghita of Alizarr, and has subsequently created a number of erotic fantasy comics and characters, alongside other works. His most notable works include being the creator/artist/writer of "Moonshine McJugs" for Playboy magazine, as well as Ghita of Alizarr for Fantagraphics Books, "Lann" for Heavy Metal magazine, Ribit for Comico, The Iron Devil and Devil's Angel for Eros Comix, and Danger Rangerette for National Lampoon and High Times. |
| Enid-Raye Adams 1973, actress, Emily - The Outer Limits (1 episode, 2001), Firell - Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers: To Live and Die in Starlight (2002) (TV), Jones - Stargate SG-1 (1 episode, "Prometheus", 2002), Susan Parker - Taken (1 episode, "High Hopes", 2002), Phyllis - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "The Monsters Are on Maple Street", 2003). |
| Clare Victor Dwiggins 1874, cartoonist, signed his work Dwig. Dwiggins created a number of comic strips and single panel cartoons for various American newspapers and newspaper syndicates from 1897 until 1945, including his best-known strip, the long-run School Days. He created a wide variety of gag panels, including J. Filliken Wilberfloss, Leap Year Lizzie, Them Was the Happy Days, Uncle Jim and Tad and Tim, Mrs Bump's Boarding House, Ophelia and Her Slate and Bill's Diary. Dwig's first comic strip was Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1918), which used more than a half dozen of Mark Twain's characters but employed very little content from his novels. Dwig began School Days in the early 1910s as a single panel, and it eventually evolved into a Sunday strip with a storyline about schoolkids that continued until 1932. Dwig drew Nipper (1931-37) for the Ledger Syndicate. In 1940, he returned to Huckleberry Finn in the pages of Doc Savage Comics and Supersnipe Comics. He also drew Bobby Crusoe in (1945) for Supersnipe Comics. |
| Michael Kilgarriff 1937, actor, Joe Steiner - UFO (1 episode, "Conflict", 1970), General - The Dark Crystal (1982) (voice), Robot / Cyber Controller - Doctor Who (11 episodes, 1967-1985), Pond Sprite / Lion - Jim Henson's The Storyteller (2 episodes, 1988)(voice). |
| Joseph May 1974, actor, Dr. Blue - Resident Evil (2002), Link - G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom (2004) (V) (voice), Sgt. Markham - Stargate: Atlantis (2 episodes, 2004), Superman / Robbie - Batman: Black and White (2 episodes, 2009). |
| John Franklin 1959, actor, Cousin Itt - The Addams Family (1991), Cousin Itt - Addams Family Values (1993), Kipp - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "Critical Care", 2000). |
| Clifton Collins, Jr. 1970, actor, Javier O'Hara - The Flash (1 episode, "Double Vision", 1990), Andy Perez - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "Last Lap", 2002), Frendon Blythe - Masters of Science Fiction (1 episode, "Little Brother", 2007), Ayel - Star Trek (2009). |
| John Yohan Cho 1972, actor, Parking Valet - The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000), Han - Earth vs. the Spider (2001) (TV), DBA Emissary #1 - Solaris (2002), Hirotaka - Kim Possible (1 episode, "Exchange", 2003)(voice), Vince Chung - American Dad (1 episode, "Helping Handis", 2006)(voice), Hikaru Sulu - Star Trek (2009), Demetri Noh - Flash Forward (22 episodes, 2009-2010). |
| Leslie Engelberg 1975, actress, Yareth - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "Vortex", 1993). |
| Ricky Luna 1977, actor, Carlos - Star Trek: Enterprise (1 episode, "Broken Bow, part 1", 2001), War of the Worlds Soldier - War of the Worlds (2005). |
| Olivia Hack 1983, actress, Glowee - P.J. Sparkles (1992) (TV) (voice), Olivia Picard - Star Trek: Generations (1994), Jenna Sorensen - Perversions of Science (1 episode, "People's Choice", 1997), Rhonda Wellington Lloyd - Hey Arnold! The Movie (2002) (voice), Rhonda Wellington Lloyd - Hey Arnold! (42 episodes, 1996-2004), Various / Cindy Brady - Family Guy (4 episodes, 1999-2005)(voice), Chloe - Bratz (5 episodes, 2006)(voice), Ty Lee - Avatar: The Last Airbender (15 episodes, 2006-2008)(voice), Charlene - Open Season 2 (2008) (V) (voice), Treena - Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo (2010) (V) (voice). |
| William Francisco Cobbs 1935, actor, Walter - The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Second Elder / Joe Dell - The Outer Limits (2 episodes, 1997-1999), Dr. Emory Erickson - Star Trek: Enterprise (1 episode, "Daedalus", 2005). |
Events
| 1997, Star Trek:DS9, "Call to Arms" airs. |
| 1997, Babylon 5 Episode 84 - "Intersections in Real Time" first aired |
| 2002, The Dead Zone airs on USA Network. |
| 2007, Dr. Who, "Utopia" airs. |
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