Daily Birthdays and Events in Sci-Fi, Comics and related areas

June 29, 2010

The Bronze Bomber, Don Rosa, Tarzan Finds a Son!, Playboy, Everworld, The Borg, Superman: The Animated Series.

If you've ever wonder who was the voice of the Borg on Star Trek then read below because it's his birthday. Also it seems today is the day a couple "risque" artists are celebrating birthdays.


Enjoy !!!



Birthdays

Gene Bilbrew 1923, cartoonist and fetish artist, illustrated the comic strip series The Bronze Bomber, Around 1950 Bilbrew became an assistant to the hugely influential comics artist Will Eisner, on The Spirit,[2] where Bilbrew took over the back-up series Clifford — a little-kid humour page, notability came when he became a fetish artist at Irving Klaw's Movie Star News/Nutrix company. He also had many illustrations published in Exotique magazine between 1956 and 1959.
Keno "Don" Hugo Rosa 1951, comic book writer and illustrator best known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other Disney characters.
Frieda Inescort 1901, actress, Mrs. Lancing - Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939), Mrs. Chappel - The She-Creature (1956).
Eldon Dedini 1921, cartoonist, whose work has appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Playboy and elsewhere. Fantagraphics Books published a collection of his work, An Orgy of Playboy's Dedini, in 2006. His work is raunchy and humorous, but never pornographic, and is liberally sprinkled with leering satyrs and wide-eyed, amply-endowed young nymphs.
Maureen O'Brien 1942, actress, Vicki - Doctor Who (38 episodes, 1965).
Franz Joseph Schnaubelt 1914, illustrator, the author and illustrator of the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and the Star Trek Blueprints. Schnaubelt's publications, which he wrote and illustrated under the names Franz Joseph and Franz Joseph Designs, even though they are now considered non-canonical, helped spawn a continuing interest in both the futuristic technology depicted on Star Trek and the schematics thereof.
David Burroughs Mattingly 1956, illustrator and painter best known for his numerous book covers of science fiction and fantasy literature. While at Walt Disney Studios, David began doing freelance art. His first published piece was the album cover for "The Commodores Greatest Hits". His first sale of art for a book cover was for "A Wizard in Bedlam," by Christopher Stasheff, published by DAW Books. David has produced over five hundred covers for most major publishers of science fiction and fantasy, including Baen Books, Bantam Books, DAW Books, Del Rey Books, Dell, Marvel Comics, Omni, Playboy, Signet, and Tor Books. For Scholastic Press, David painted 54 covers for K. A. Applegate's Animorphs series, along with the last 5 covers for the Everworld series. He illustrated the popular Honor Harrington series for author David Weber. He painted the latest repackaging of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar books for Ballantine Books. Other clients include Michael Jackson, Lucasfilm, Universal Studios, Totco Oil, Galoob Toys, R/Greenberg Associates, Click 3X, and Spontaneous Combustion.
Jeff Coopwood 1958, voice actor, The Borg - Star Trek: First Contact (1996) (voice), Announcer/Man #1/Big Daddy - Dexter's Laboratory (1 episode, "Sister's Got a Brand New Bag/Shoo, Shoe Gnomes/Lab of the Lost", 1997), Driver / Guard / Tourist #2 / Towel Man Head Bird / Jim / Eagle / Chief / Villager / - The Wild Thornberrys (4 episodes, 1998-2000), Tour Bus Guide - Bette (1 episode, "Polterguest", 2001), Tim (Park Ranger) - The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) (voice).
Sharon Lawrence 1961, actress, Amelia Earhart - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "The 37's", 1995), Maxima - Superman: The Animated Series (1 episode, "Warrior Queen", 1997).
Lorenzo James Henrie 1993, actor, Vulcan Bully - Star Trek (2009).


Events

1989, Star Trek:TNG, "The Emissary" airs.

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