Heart of Juliet Jones, Cracked Magazine, Rat Fink, Lucy Hell, Tom Paris, Master Tom, Gorn, Sesame Street.

Stan Drake, Mort Todd, and Robert McNeill all were favorites of mine over the years, and surprisingly all born on the same day.


Enjoy !!!!



Birthdays

Stan Drake 1921, cartoonist best known as the founding artist of the comic strip The Heart of Juliet Jones, and as a successor artist on Blondie.

Mort Todd 1961, writer, artist, editor, As a writer, artist or editor, Todd has worked at just about every comic book company, contributing to a variety of characters, from Superman and Spider-Man to licensed characters like Barbie and Looney Tunes. Newspaper comic strips Todd has written and drawn include Speed Racer, Rat Fink, and Molly the Model. His illustrations have graced many CD covers, magazines, newspapers and ads. In 1985, Todd became Editor-in-Chief of Cracked magazine at age 23. Even more recently Todd has written and illustrated for the new Tales from the Crypt comic series, and completed new comic books featuring Lucy Hell, Devilgirl and Mr. Krime. With his long-time collaborator Cliff Mott, Todd has created and directed three new animated cartoons for Playboy.

John Megna 1952, actor, Little Boy - Star Trek (1 episode, "Miri", 1966).

Robert Duncan McNeill 1964, actor, Peter Wood - The Twilight Zone (segment "A Message from Charity") (1 episode, 1985), Kevin Corrigan - Masters of the Universe (1987), Greg Truesdale - Quantum Leap (1 episode, "Good Night, Dear Heart - November 9, 1957", 1990), Cadet First Class Nicholas Locarno - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "The First Duty", 1992), Tom Paris - Star Trek: Voyager (170 episodes, 1995-2001), Commander Ellis Ward - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "The Human Factor", 2002).

Events

1919, Master Tom, a prototype of Felix the Cat, debuted in a Paramount Pictures short entitled Feline Follies.

1966, Scenes of Kirk and the Gorn are filmed on location at Vasquez Rocks for TOS: "Arena".

1970, The PBS TV network begins airing the Sesame Street TV show in the USA.

1981, Filming begins for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The first scene filmed is Khan's meeting with Terrell and Chekov on Ceti Alpha VI.

1987, Star Trek:TNG, "Justice" airs.

1994, Babylon 5 Episode 24 - "Revelations" first aired

1994, In Search of Dr. Seuss is aired.