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| Sergio Aragones 1937, comic book artist and writer, best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer. Among his peers and fans, Aragonés is widely regarded as "the world's fastest cartoonist. He made his first professional sale in 1954 when a high school classmate submitted his work to a magazine without telling Aragonés. He continued to sell gag cartoons to magazines while studying architecture at the University of Mexico, where he also learned pantomime under the direction of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Aragonés went to Mad's offices in Madison Avenue hoping to sell some of his cartoons. "I didn't think I had anything that belonged in Mad, said Aragonés. "I didn't have any satire. I didn't have any articles. But everybody was telling me, 'Oh, you should go to Mad." Mad editor Al Feldstein and publisher Bill Gaines liked what they saw, and Aragonés became a contributor to the magazine in 1963. His first sale was an assortment of astronaut cartoons which the editors arranged into an article. As of the 500th issue in 2009[update], Aragonés' work has appeared in 424 issues of Mad, second only to Al Jaffee (451 issues). In 1967, he began writing and illustrating full stories for various DC Comics titles, including Angel and the Ape, Inferior Five, Young Romance, the company's Jerry Lewis comic book, and for various horror anthologies. He also wrote or plotted stories that were illustrated by other artists. Aragonés created DC's Western series Bat Lash, and the humor title Plop!. However, Aragonés broke with DC when the company began insisting on work-for-hire contracts; when Aragonés balked, an editor tore up Aragonés' paycheck in front of his face. He'd been trying obliquely to sell a comic book premise to DC or Marvel, but neither company would allow Aragonés to retain the copyright. "I didn't want anyone stealing the idea," said Aragonés, "and they weren't able to talk on a theoretical basis." Aragonés had created the humorous barbarian comic book Groo the Wanderer with Mark Evanier in the late 1970s, but the character did not appear in print until 1982. (Groo was so named because Aragonés sought a name which meant nothing in any language.) Evanier's role originally was as something of a translator, as Aragonés was still somewhat shaky at expressing his ideas in English. Eventually the two began collaborating on story ideas, and there have been several Groo stories in which Evanier is credited as the sole writer. Aragonés has since become fluent in English. The other regular contributors to the book are letterer Stan Sakai (himself the creator/artist of the equally famous Usagi Yojimbo), and colorist Tom Luth. As a creator-owned book, Groo has survived the bankruptcy of a number of publishers, a fact which led to the industry joke that publishing the series was a precursor to a publisher's demise. The book was initially published by Pacific Comics, briefly by Eclipse Comics, then Marvel Comics under their since-discontinued Epic Comics imprint (which allowed creators to retain copyrights), then Image Comics, and currently Dark Horse Comics. |
| Mike Zeck 1949, comic book illustrator, He attended the Ringling School of Art, and began his comics career in 1974 doing illustration assignments for the text stories in Charlton Comics’ animated line of comics, which led to work on their horror titles. In 1977, Zeck started working for Marvel Comics by doing fill-in work on Master of Kung Fu, and has since worked on such titles as Aquaman, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Green Lantern, Captain America, G.I. Joe, Lobo, and Deathstroke, The Terminator. He may be best known for his 1987 work on the classic "Kraven's Last Hunt" storyline, written by J. M. DeMatteis, in the Spider-Man books, and the Punisher mini-series of 1985/1986 (written by Steven Grant, and collected as Circle Of Blood), as well as the 12-issue event miniseries Secret Wars. For this series, he and fellow artist Rick Leonardi designed a new black-and-white costume temporarily worn by Spider-Man, which eventually led to the creation of the villain Venom. |
| John Mitchum 1919, actor, Sheriff Grayson / Mr. Evans / Sheriff / Detective Sergeant - Science Fiction Theatre (4 episodes, 1955-1956), Erbie / Ace - Twilight Zone (2 episodes, 1961-1964), Guitar-Playing Inmate - Brainstorm (1965), Rip Snorting / Hot Dog Harrigan - Batman (3 episodes, 1966-1967). |
Events
| 1966, Star Trek: The Original Series premieres in Canada, two days before its premiere in the United States on NBC. |
| 1969, Here Comes the Grump airs on NBC. |
| 1969, Birdman and the Galaxy Trio airs on NBC. |
| 1975, The Lost Saucer airs on ABC. |
| 1975, The Secrets of Isis airs on CBS.. |
| 1975, The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty airs on NBC. |
| 1975, The Great Grape Ape Show airs on ABC. |
| 1975, Far Out Space Nuts airs on CBS. |
| 1986, The Flintstone Kids airs on ABC. |
| 1994, Filming begins on Star Trek: Voyager, with the first scenes of the pilot episode "Caretaker". |
| 1996, Superman: The Animated Series airs on The WB. |
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