Second, it's artist and Facebook friend Marc Silvestri's birthday also. Happy Birthday Marc !!!
Also if you sift through the bits of knowledge you'll discover some pretty cool facts including who did the first Superman voice for cartoons. Hmmm, I wonder who that could have been ?
Enjoy !!!
Birthdays
| Wayne Howard 1949, comic book artist best known for his 1970s work at Charlton Comics, where he became American comic books' first known cover-credited series creator, with the horror-anthology Midnight Tales. Howard made his credited comics debut as penciler and inker with writer Marv Wolfman's three-page story "Cain's True Case Files: Grave Results" in DC Comics' House of Mystery #182 (Oct. 1969). He went on to contribute to later issues, as well as to Major Publications' black-and-white horror-comics magazine Web of Horror #1 (Dec. 1969). inked roughly 200 covers and stories — primarily for such supernatural series as the aforementioned and Ghostly Haunts, Ghostly Tales, The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves, and an issue each of Beyond the Grave and Creepy Things, and of the gothic horror romance anthology Haunted Love. With writer Cuti, he contributed the backup feature "Travis: The Dragon Killer" in the cult-hit superhero series E-Man #3 (June 1974). He inked the horror-host pages of DC's House of Mystery #256-257 (Feb.-April 1978) plus a story each in Weird War Tales #53 (May 1977) and Secrets of Haunted House #13 (Sept. 1978), and the sword-and-sorcery title Warlord #64 (Dec. 1982), he inked Rich Buckler's cover and Ross Andru's pencil art adapting Harry Bates' short story "Farewell to the Master" in the science-fiction anthology Worlds Unknown #3 (Sept. 1973); Gil Kane's Spider-Man / Submariner story in Marvel Team-Up #14 (Oct. 1973); Val Mayerik's "Thongor! Warrior of Lost Lemuria" feature in Creatures on the Loose #26 (Nov. 1973); and a Syd Shores story in the black-and-white comics magazine Haunt of Horror #4 (Nov. 1974). |
| Kevin Huizenga 1977, cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comics character Glenn Ganges, who appears in most of his work. Since February 2008, Kevin Huizenga has published a comic strip called Amazing Facts and Beyond with Leon Beyond. |
| Jim Mahfood 1975, comic book creator, Apart from his creator-owned comic book series Grrl Scouts and his comic strip Stupid Comics (which appears weekly in the Phoenix New Times) he also did work for Marvel Comics on various Spider-Man titles, including Ultimate Marvel Team-Up and Spectacular Spider-Man. |
| Val Mayerik 1950, comic-book and commercial artist, best known as co-creator of Marvel Comics' satiric character Howard the Duck. |
| Norman Snow 1950, actor, Tybalt - Man From Atlantis (1 episode, "The Naked Montague", 1977), Marc Antony - Voyagers! (1 episode, "Cleo and the Babe", 1982), Xur - The Last Starfighter (1984), Commander James Hartig - Quantum Leap (1 episode, "Nowhere to Run - August 10, 1968", 1992), Torin - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Rightful Heir", 1993), |
| Marina Sirtis 1955, actress, Girl in Porsche - Space Riders (1984), Counselor Deanna Troi - Star Trek: The Next Generation (176 episodes, 1987-1994), Counselor Deanna Troi - Star Trek: Generations (1994), Demona - Gargoyles: The Heroes Awaken (1995) (V) (voice), Demona / Young Woman - Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles (1 episode, "Generations"), Demona / Margot / Ms. Destine - Gargoyles (28 episodes, 1994-1996), Counselor Deanna Troi - Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Aurora Abromowitz - Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1 episode, "Where No Duckman Has Gone Before", 1997), Demona - Gargoyles: Brothers Betrayed (1998) (V) (voice), Demona - Gargoyles: The Hunted (1998) (V) (voice), Counselor Deanna Troi - Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Olivia 'Liv' Kohler - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "The Grell", 1999), Sister Margarette - Earth: Final Conflict (1 episode, "The Cloister", 1999), Dr. Svetlana Markov - Stargate SG-1 (1 episode, "Watergate", 2000), Counselor Deanna Troi - Star Trek: Voyager (3 episodes, 1999-2000), Counselor Deanna Troi-Riker - Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), Counselor Deanna Troi - Enterprise (1 episode, "These Are the Voyages...", 2005), Counselor Deanna Troi - Family Guy (1 episode, "Peter's Got Woods", 2005), Queen Wealhtheow - Grendel (2007) (TV), Paxton - Annihilation Earth (2009) (TV), Crystal Barry - InAlienable (2010). |
| Marc Silvestri 1958, comic book artist, He is currently the CEO of Top Cow. Despite this, he is best known for his work drawing Uncanny X-Men for Marvel Comics in the late 1980s. In 1992, he was one of seven artists to split off and form Image Comics. While there, he wrote and drew Cyberforce and Codename: Strykeforce. In 1996, he drew 21 pages of Star TreX, the majority of them inked by Matt Banning. He then spent two years pencilling its spin-off title Wolverine. In 2004 Silvestri made a brief return to Marvel to pencil several issues of X-Men, collaborating with writer Grant Morrison. Later in the year, he launched a new Top Cow title, Hunter-Killer with writer Mark Waid. He provided covers for the Marvel Comics mini-series, X-Men: Deadly Genesis by Ed Brubaker and Trevor Hairsine. He continued his work on X-Men penciling the first installment, in the form of a One-shot called Utopia, in the Uncanny X-Men/Dark Avengers crossover Utopia in 2009. |
| Onslow Stevens 1902, actor, Brig. Gen. Robert O'Brien - Them! (1954). |
| Arthur O'Connell 1908, actor, Interne - Blondie's Blessed Event (1942), Paul - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1 episode, "The Mechanical Man", 1966), Col. Donald Reid - Fantastic Voyage (1966), Buck Fleming - The Reluctant Astronaut (1967). |
| Philip Ahn 1905, actor, Wu Yung - The Shadow (1940)[Chs.1-3,8,10-11], Sutoc - Captain Midnight (1 episode, "The Arctic Avalanche", 1955), Hong Kong Citizen - Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), Song - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1 episode, "The Dead Part of the House", 1959), Dr. Nakamura - The Time Tunnel (1 episode, "Kill Two by Two", 1967), Col Minh - Wonder Woman (1 episode, 1977). |
| Niall MacGinnis 1913, actor, Kruger - Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959), |
| Eric Idle 1943, actor, Wreck-Gar - The Transformers: The Movie (1986) (voice), Paul 'Dibbs' Plutzker - Casper (1995), Pinky's Mom/Pinky's Dad - Pinky and the Brain (1 episode, "The Family That Poits Together, Narfs Together", 1998), Devon - Quest for Camelot (1998) (voice), Slyly the Fox - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998) (voice), Spanque - The Angry Beavers (1 episode, "Open Wide for Zombies/Dumbwaiters", 1998), Evil Martin - The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue (1998) (V) (voice), Parenthesis - Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999) (V) (voice), Parenthesis / School Master - Disney's Hercules (2 episodes, 1998-1999), Dr. Vosknocker - South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999) (voice), Galileo - Recess (2 episodes, 1998-1999), Pluto's Angel - Mickey Mouse Works (2 episodes, 1999-2000), Waddlesworth - 102 Dalmatians (2000) (voice), Guzelian - Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (1 episode, 2000), Pluto Angel - Houise of Mouse (2 episodes, 2001-2002), Medoro - Pinocchio (2002) (voice: English version), Drosselmeier - The Nutcracker and the Mouseking (2004) (V) (voice: English version), Scrapperton - Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (3 episodes, 2004-2005), Declan Desmond - The Simpson's (3 episodes, 2003-2007), Merlin - Shrek the Third (2007) (voice), Spig - Delgo (2008) (voice). |
| Bud Cort 1948, actor, Mark Weinstein - Invaders from Mars (1986), Willy Gardner - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "The Trunk", 1988), Josiah Wormwood - Batman: The Animated Series (1 episode, "The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy", 1992), Tempest/Fritz Drizzle - The Mask (2 episodes, 1996), The Toyman - Superman: The Animated Series (2 episodes, 1996-1998), Toyman - Static Shock (1 episode, 2003), Winslow Schott / Toyman - Justice League (1 episode, "Alive", 2006). |
| Christopher Lambert 1957, actor, John Clayton / Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), Connor 'The Highlander' MacLeod / Russell Edwin Nash - Highlander (1986), Connor MacLeod - Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Connor MacLeod - Highlander (1 episode, "The Gathering", 1992), Connor MacLeod / Russell Nash - Highlander III: The Sorcerer (1994), Beowulf - Beowulf (1999), Connor MacLeod - Highlander: Endgame (2000). |
| Lucy Lawless 1968, actress, Liddy Barton - The Ray Bradbury Theater (1 episode, 1992), Lysia - Hercules and the Amazon Women (1994) (TV), Xena - Hercules & Xena: Wizards of the Screen (1997), Xena - Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus (1998) (V) (voice), Xena - Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (8 episodes, 1995-1998), Xena / Annie / Meg - Xena: Warrior Princess (134 episodes, 1995-2001), Shannon McMahon - The X-Files (2 episodes, 2001), Punk Rock Girl - Spider-Man (2002), Kathleen Clayton - Tarzan (7 episodes, 2003), Goldmoon - Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (2008) (V) (voice), Wonder Woman - Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) (V) (voice), D'Anna Biers - Battlestar Galactica (16 episodes, 2005-2009). |
| Leslie Meadows 1947, actor, Reggie Cornford - Doomwatch (1 episode, "Invasion", 1970), Cheetah Person / The Creature / Adlon - Doctor Who (8 episodes, 1987-1989). |
Events
| 1941, Goofy Groceries cartoon short is released. Mel Blanc does the first ever voice of Superman. |
| 1968, Star Trek:TOS, "Assignment: Earth" airs. |
| 1987, 7th Golden Raspberry Awards: Howard the Duck wins |
| 1993, Star Trek:TNG, "Starship Mine" airs. |
| 1996, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 is released. |
| 1999, Shooting for the last Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "What You Leave Behind" begins. |
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