Lots of great comic book artists and cartoonists are sharing a birthday today. Maybe you have a favorite.
Enjoy!!
Birthdays
| Sid Couchey 1919, cartoonist best-known for his illustration work on the Harvey Comics characters Richie Rich, Little Lotta and Little Dot. His style is known for big, friendly faces and a sharp sense of visual humor. In the mid-1950s, Sid answered an advertisement in the New York Times--and thus briefly became an assistant for Joe Shuster, the co-creator of Superman. After several planning sessions in Sid's 9th Avenue apartment, Shuster came up with "another alien baby" named Golly Galloo. Although "Galloo never flew", |
| Carmine Infantino 1925, comic book artist and editor, Infanto inked the feature "Jack Frost" in USA Comics #3 (Jan. 1942). Infantino would eventually work for several publishers during the decade, drawing Airboy and the Heap for Hillman Periodicals; working for packager Jack Binder, who supplied Fawcett Comics; briefly at Holyoke; then landing at DC Comics, where he became a regular artist of the Golden Age Flash, Black Canary, Green Lantern and Justice Society of America. In 1956, DC editor Julius Schwartz assigned writer Robert Kanigher and artist Infantino to the company's first attempt at reviving superheroes: an updated version of the Flash that would appear in issue #4 (Oct. 1956) of the try-out series Showcase. Infantino designed the now-classic red uniform with yellow detail, striving to keep the costume as streamlined as possible, and he drew on his design abilities to create a new visual language to depict the Flash's speed, making the figure a red and yellow blur. other features and titles, most notably "Adam Strange" in Mystery in Space, in 1964 gave the "New Look" Batman and Robin a more detective-oriented direction and sleeker draftsmanship that proved a hit combination. Other features and characters Infantino drew at DC include "The Space Museum", and Elongated Man. Infantino was made publisher in 1971 for DC. |
| Willis Bouchey 1907, actor, President - Red Planet Mars (1952), Official at D.C. Meeting - Them! (1954), Dr. Samuel Thorne - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, "The Masks", 1964). |
| Brad Anderson 1924, cartoonist, He is best known for creating the comic strip Marmaduke in 1955, which he continues to draw to this day. Anderson, who says he draws on Laurel and Hardy routines for his ideas, received the National Cartoonists Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for Marmaduke in 1978. One of his favorite inclusions in his comics was the old Cave's Meat Market in Brocton. There were several cartoons dedicated to Cave's and to Marmaduke running away from the store with items he had retrieved. He was also involved in the comic strip Grandpa's Boy, which ran from 1955 through 1980. |
| Irwin Caplan 1919, cartoonist, best known as the creator of The Saturday Evening Post cartoon series, Famous Last Words. In the late 1940s through the early 1960s, Caplan's distinctive, crisp cartoon style appeared in Collier's, Life, Esquire and other leading publications. |
| Paul Robert Langdon 1988, actor, Dean - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "Lineage", 2001), Little Jackie - Jackie Chan Adventures (1 episode, "Through the Rabbit Hole", 2001)(voice). |
| Creighton Hale 1882, actor, Shell Person - One Million B.C. (1940), Observer - Atom Man vs. Superman (1950)[Ch. 1], Bit Role - The She-Creature (1956). |
| Jim Broadbent 1949, actor, Compere - Time Bandits (1981), Jean Pierre Dubois - Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), The Doctor - Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999) (TV), Lord Kelvin - Around the World in 80 Days (2004), Madame Gasket - Robots (2005) (voice), Batman - Spider-Plant Man (2005) (TV), Dean Charles Stanforth - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). |
| Alfred Molina 1953, actor, Satipo - Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Dr. Stephen Arden - Species (1995), Elcio - The Wild Thornberrys (1 episode, "Only Child", 1998), King Gustav - Justice League (2 episodes, 2003), Doc Ock / Dr. Otto Octavius - Spider-Man 2 (2004), Professor Jeffries - Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! (2007) (V) (voice), Ares - Wonder Woman (2009) (V) (voice). |
Events
| 1966, Cameras roll on TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver", the first regular production episode of Star Trek. Among the scenes filmed today is scene 21, where Janice Rand, in Kirk's quarters, lays out a clean uniform for the captain. The scene is deleted from the episode's final edit. |
| 1993, Star Trek:TNG, "Second Chances" airs. |
| 1995, Babylon 5 Episode 40 - "Confessions and Lamentations" first aired |
| 2000, Star Trek:Voyager, "Unimatrix Zero" airs. |
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