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Birthdays
| Dennis Calero 1972, comic book artist, Fallen Angel, new X-Factor series, Sliders:Darkest Hour |
| Don Heck 1929, comic book artist best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, and for his long run penciling the Marvel superhero-team series The Avengers during the 1960s. Heck's first known credited work is on the horror comics Weird Terror, Horrific, Terrific, and Danger, and the violent Western series Death Valley, for publisher Comic Media beginning in 1952. Publisher Allen Hardy was a former co-worker at Harvey Comics. For publisher U.S. Pictorial, circa 1955, he drew the one-shot Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion, a TV tie-in comic. Heck became an Atlas staff artist on September 1, 1954; his first known work for the company was the six-page Korean War story "The Commies Attack!" in Battlefront #29 (March 1955). He as well drew Westerns, crime fiction, horror, and jungle stories. Heck gave atmospheric rendering to numerous sci-fi jungle/prison-escape stories and other genres, Strange Tales and Tales to Astonish, to name two of the many pre-superhero comics for which he drew; others included Strange Worlds, World of Fantasy, and Journey into Mystery. Many of these stories were reprinted during the 1960s and 1970s. Heck, who was known for drawing beautiful women. |
| Dennis Calero 1972, comic book artist, His work includes Acclaim Comics' licensed-product titles Sliders and Magic: The Gathering; Moonstone Books' TV tie-in titles Cisco Kid and Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Platinum Comics' Cowboys & Aliens; IDW Publishing's Masters of Horror: Dreams in the Witch House; and Marvel Comics' X-Factor, |
| Frederick Burr Opper 1857, regarded as one of the pioneers of American newspaper comic strips, best known for his comic strip Happy Hooligan. His comic characters were featured in magazine gag cartoons, covers, political cartoons and comic strips for six decades. Opper's first cartoon was published in Wild Oats in 1876, followed by cartoons and illustrations in Scribner’s Monthly and St. Nicholas Magazine. He worked as illustrator at Frank Leslie's Weekly from 1877 to 1880. Opper was then hired to draw for Puck by publishers Joseph Keppler and Adolph Schwarzmann. He stayed with Puck for 18 years, drawing everything from spot illustrations to chromolithograph covers. |
| Lynda Barry 1956, cartoonist, One of the most successful non-mainstream American cartoonists, Barry is perhaps best known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek. Barry's cartoons often view family life from the perspective of pre-teen girls from the wrong side of the tracks – Arna (the sensitive, freckled observer) and the cousins with whom she lives; pig-tailed Marlys (gifted, exuberant, snarky, and spastic); and the older Maybonne (concerned with social justice, music, makeup, hairdos and boys) and Freddie (gay, sweet, bullied, fascinated with bugs and monsters); but she often ventures far afield from this, such as in her strips featuring a Beat Poet poodle named Fred Milton. She has also produced novels. She garnered attention with her book The Good Times are Killing Me about an interracial friendship between two young girls. The book was made into a play. Her novel "Cruddy" (2000) was well received. "One! Hundred! Demons!" (2002) a graphic novel she terms "Autobiofictionalography" uses collage and a Zen Ink painting exercise to address personal and social topics that have been demonized. "What It Is" (2008) is a graphic novel that is part memoir, part collage and part workbook in which Barry instructs her readers in methods to open up their own creativity. "What It Is" won the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. |
| Elmer Simms Campbell 1906, cartoonist, Campbell signed his work E. Simms Campbell. He was the first African American cartoonist published in nationally distributed slick magazines, and he was the creator of Esky, the familiar pop-eyed mascot of Esquire. |
| Deborah Watling 1948, actress, Sally Brady - Invisible Man (9 episodes, 1959), Sarah Richards - Out of the Unknown (1 episode, "The World in Silence", 1966), Victoria Waterfield - Doctor Who (41 episodes, 1967-1968), Victoria Waterfield - Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993) (TV). |
| Isaac Asimov 1920, sci-fi author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards. |
Events
| 1968, Transporter room scenes are filmed for TOS: "Assignment: Earth". |
| 1978, Blakes 7 series begins on BBC 1. Eps. " The Way Back" |
| 1994, Star Trek:DS9, "Rivals" airs. |
| 1995, The animated TV series The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show first airs in syndication. |
| 1996, Alien Nation: Millennium TV movie airs. |
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