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

August 25, 2010

Minimum Wage, Fool's Gold, Madame Xanadu, Flash Gordon, Starstruck, The Shadow, Pogo, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Cyborg 2087, Lost in Space.

It's a great day for comic book artists and early sci-fi actors.


Enjoy !!!




Birthdays

Bob Fingerman 1964, comic book artist and writer, Best known for his comic series Minimum Wage (Fantagraphics Books)
Amy Reeder Hadley 1980, comic artist, most known for her comic Fool's Gold. She is currently working, together with writer Matt Wagner, on the comic Madame Xanadu, published under DC comic's Vertigo.
Michael William Kaluta 1947, comic book artist, His early work included a Flash Gordon story for Charlton Comics and an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Venus novels for DC. He is known for his work on the series Starstruck and The Shadow. He co-created Eve, the horror host turned The Sandman supporting character. He was one of the four comic book artists/fine illustrator/painters who formed the artists' commune The Studio in a loft in Manhattan's Chelsea district from 1975 to 1979. His Studio colleagues were Barry Windsor-Smith, Jeff Jones, and Bernie Wrightson.
Walt Kelley 1913, animator and cartoonist, best known for the classic funny animal comic strip, Pogo. Kelly worked for Disney from January 6, 1936 to September 12, 1941, contributing to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Dumbo and The Reluctant Dragon.
Michael Rennie 1909, actor, Klaatu - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Lord John Roxton - The Lost World (1960), Garth A7 - Cyborg 2087 (1966), The Keeper - Lost in Space (2 episodes, "The Keeper: Part 1 & 2", 1966), Capt. Malcolm Smith - The Time Tunnel (1 episode, "Rendezvous with Yesterday", 1966), The Sandman - Batman (2 episodes, "The Sandman Cometh", "The Catwoman Goeth", 1966), Magnus / Vice Chancellor Pierre Alquist - The Invaders (3 episodes, 1967).
Van Johnson 1916, actor, The Minstrel - Batman (2 episodes, 1966).


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