Some great artists and actors today along with the beginnings of the larger events section.
I would especially like to say Happy Birthday to Walt Simonson who is a great artist and Facebook friend. His work has always been inspirational.
Enjoy !!!
Birthdays
| Alex Lovy 1913, animator, who spent the majority of his career as an animator and director at Walter Lantz Productions, later being a producer at Hanna-Barbera, and also supervising the cartoon unit at Warner Bros. during its final days. In 1967, Lovy moved to the newly re-opened Warner Bros. cartoon studio, where he created the characters Cool Cat[3] and Merlin the Magic Mouse[4], in addition to directing cartoons with classic characters Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales. According to Walter Lantz, Lovy was ambidextrous, and could draw two storyboards at the same time, one with each hand. |
| Paul J. Reinman 1910, comic book artist best known as one of industry legend's Jack Kirby's frequent inkers during what comics fans and historians call the Silver Age of comic books. This included such landmarks as the first issues of The Incredible Hulk and The X-Men. Reinman entered the field in the 1940s at All-American Comics, working on such characters as the Golden Age Green Lantern and Wildcat before succeeding series creators Ben Flinton and Jon Kozlak on The Atom from 1947 to 1949. Other Golden Age characters he drew include Starman and Wonder Woman. With the late-1950s return of comics legend Jack Kirby to Atlas/Marvel, Reinman became a frequent inker of Kirby's work in such "pre-superhero Marvel" science-fiction/fantasy anthologies as Strange Tales and Journey into Mystery, as well as on the espionage series Yellow Claw. Reinman remained active through at least the mid-1970s, penciling Ka-Zar #1 (Jan. 1974) and assisting John Romita on the pencils of The Amazing Spider-Man #132 (May 1974). |
| Walter "Walt" Simonson 1946, comic book artist, After studying geology at Amherst College, he transferred to the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 1972. His thesis project there was The Star Slammers, which was published as a black and white promotional comic book for the 1974 World Science Fiction Convention in Washington, D.C. (DisCon II). In 1983, he produced another version of the story in graphic novel form for Marvel Comics. Simonson continued the adventures of the Star Slammers in a limited series in the mid-1990s as one of the founders of Malibu Comics' short-lived Bravura label. Simonson's first professional published comic book work was Weird War Tales #10 (Jan. 1973) for DC Comics. He also did a number of illustrations for the Harry N. Abrams, Inc. edition of The Hobbit. Simonson's breakthrough illustration job was Manhunter, a backup feature in DC's Detective Comics written by Archie Goodwin. Simonson went on to draw other DC series such as Metal Men and Hercules Unbound. In 1979 Simonson and Goodwin collaborated on an adaptation of the movie Alien, published by Heavy Metal. Simonson is best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Mighty Thor and X-Factor (the latter being a collaboration with his wife Louise Simonson). Simonson took nearly complete control of Thor, during which he transformed Thor into a frog for three issues and introduced the supporting character, Beta Ray Bill, an alien warrior who unexpectedly proved worthy to wield Thor's hammer, Mjolnir. He started as writer & artist with issue #337 (Nov. 1983) and continued until #367 (May 1986). It was on Thor that Simonson's long working relationship with letterer John Workman began. Workman has lettered most of Simonson's work since this time. Simonson became writer of the Fantastic Four with issue #334 (Dec. 1989), and three issues later began penciling and inking as well (#337, coincidentally the same issue number he started as writer & artist of Thor). He had a popular three issue collaboration with Arthur Adams. Simonson left the Fantastic Four with issue #354 (July 1991). His other Marvel credits in the decade included co-plotting/writing the Iron Man 2020 one-shot (June 1994) and writing the Heroes Reborn version of the Avengers. In recent years, Simonson has mostly worked for DC Comics. From 2000 to 2002 he wrote and illustrated Orion. After that series ended, he wrote six issues of Wonder Woman (vol. 2) drawn by Jerry Ordway. In 2002, he contributed an interview to Panel Discussions, a nonfiction book about the developing movement in sequential art and narrative literature, along with Durwin Talon, Will Eisner, Mike Mignola and Mark Schultz. From 2003 to 2006, he drew the four issue prestige mini-series Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer, written by Elric's creator, Michael Moorcock. This series was collected as a 192 page graphic novel in 2007 by DC. He continued to work for DC in 2006 writing Hawkgirl, with pencillers Howard Chaykin, Joe Bennett, and Renato Arlem. Recent work includes cover artwork for a Bat Lash mini-series and the ongoing series Vigilante, as well as writing a Wildstorm comic book series based on the online role-playing game World of Warcraft for Wildstorm. The Warcraft series ran 25 issues and was co-written with his wife, Louise Simonson. |
| Arthur Young 1898, actor, Calif Oman - The Singing Princess (1949) (voice)(English version). |
| Michael Dante 1931, actor, Maab - Star Trek (1 episode, "Friday's Child", 1967), Julio Tucelli - The Six Million Dollar Man (1 episode, "Dr. Wells Is Missing", 1974). |
| Robert Chadwick 1933, actor, Guard - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "The Brain of Colonel Barham", 1965), Astronaut #1 - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1 episode, "The Silent Saboteurs", 1965), Romulan Scanner Operator - Star Trek (1 episode, "Balance of Terror", 1966). |
| Rosana DeSoto 1950, actress, Azetbur - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Fiddler - Quantum Leap (1 episode, "Revenge of the Evil Leaper - September 16, 1987", 1993), Nancy Ochoa - Invasion (1997) (TV). |
Events
| 1945, Boots and Rod Ruggles get married in Boots and Her Buddies comic strip. |
| 1967, Dr. Who, four-part serial "The Tomb of the Cybermen" airs. |
| 1972, The Brady Kids airs on CBS. |
| 1985, Yogi's Treasure Hunt airs on NBC. |
| 1986, Design patents for a second phaser, and two Klingon phasers are issued. |
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