It's always a good day when Wally Wood and Chance Browne are having birthdays.
Enjoy the magical day and read a silver age comic and read Hi and Lois.
Birthdays
| Jeph Jacques 1980, writes and illustrates the webcomics Questionable Content and "indietits". |
| Wallace "Wally" Allan Wood 1927, comic book artist and writer, best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he claimed to dislike. Within the comics community, he was also known as Woody, a name he sometimes used as a signature. In addition to Wood's hundreds of comic book pages, he illustrated for books and magazines while also working in a variety of other areas — advertising; packaging and product illustrations; gag cartoons; record album covers; posters; syndicated comic strips; and trading cards, including work on Topps' landmark Mars Attacks set. Wood additionally did art and stories for comic-book companies large and small — from Marvel (and its 1950s iteration Atlas Comics), DC (including House of Mystery and Kirby's Challengers of the Unknown), and Warren (Creepy and Eerie), to such smaller firms as Avon (Strange Worlds), Charlton (War and Attack, Jungle Jim), Fox (Martin Kane, Private Eye), Gold Key (M.A.R.S. Patrol Total War, Fantastic Voyage), Harvey (Unearthly Spectaculars), King Comics (Jungle Jim), Atlas/Seaboard (The Destructor), Youthful Comics (Capt. Science) and the toy company Wham-O (Wham-O Giant Comics). |
| Robert "Chance" Browne 1948, cartoonist, After his father Dik Browne died in 1989, Browne took over drawing the family comic strip Hi and Lois. The comic is syndicated throughout the United States and stars the characters Hi, Lois, Dot, Ditto, Chip, and Trixie. Hi and Lois is a part of King Features, as is the other Browne family comic strip Hägar the Horrible (done by Chance's brother Chris). |
| William Lucking 1941, actor, Col. John 'Renny' Renwick - Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975), Stader - Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979) (TV), Harlen Bates / Mike Schulte - The Incredible Hulk (2 episodes, 1978-1980), Robert Alan Kline - The Greatest American Hero (1 episode, "It's All Downhill from Here", 1982), Babe Ruth - Voyagers! (1 episode, "Cleo and the Babe", 1982), Roky Crikenson - The X-Files (1 episode, "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' ", 1996), Furel - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (3 episodes, 1995-1997), Harrad-Sar - Star Trek: Enterprise (1 episode, "Bound", 2005). |
| Kelly Curtis 1956, actress, Miss Sarda - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "Captive Pursuit", 1993). Daughter of Tony Curtis, Older sister of Jamie Lee Curtis. |
| Grant Mitchell 1874, actor, Samuel Breckenridge, Banker - Blondie's Holiday (1947), Samuel Breckenridge - Blondie's Anniversary (1947). |
| Greg Kinnear 1963, actor, Captain Amazing / Lance - Mystery Men (1999), Perry Gordon - What Planet Are You From? (2000), Ratchet - Robots (2005) (voice). |
| Thomas Haden Church 1960, actor, Lyle Van de Groot - George of the Jungle 2 (2003) (V), Killer Moth - Teen Titans (1 episode, "Date with Destiny", 2004), Sandman / Flint Marko - Spider-Man 3 (2007), Tazer - Aliens in the Attic (2009) (voice), Tal Hajus - John Carter of Mars (2012) (filming). |
Events
| 1919, Barney Google comic strip by Billy DeBeck begins. |
| 1991, Star Trek:TNG, "Redemption" airs. |
| 1996, Star Trek:DS9, "Broken Link" airs. |
| 1998, Star Trek:DS9, "Tears of the Prophets" airs. |
| 1998, Babylon 5 Episode 105 - "Movements of Fire and Shadow" first aired |
| 2006, Dr. Who, "Love and Monsters" airs. |
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