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

January 7, 2011

Brave and the Bold, Morn, Lal, Sludge, Alfred, The Sword in the Stone, Aliens:Space Marines, Peter Cannon:Thunderbolt, Chas Addams, Buck Rogers.

I loved Chas Addams work in the New Yorker. The images and jokes were always so black and so made me laugh. Chas would have been 99 years old today.


Enjoy !!!



Birthdays

Gene L. Coon 1924, writer and producer for Star Trek: The Original Series
Bob Wiacek 1953, comic book artist,well known for both his pencil and ink work. Wiacek got his start in the mid-1970s as a member of the "Crusty Bunkers" inking collective. For a short time in 1975–1976 he inked backgrounds (over Curt Swan's pencils) on Superman for DC Comics. He moved on to regular inking work for DC, and then in 1978 began a long association with Marvel. Wiacek has inked over such pencilers as Carmine Infantino on Star Wars, John Romita Jr. on The Uncanny X-Men, June Brigman on Power Pack, John Byrne on Sensational She-Hulk, and Walter Simonson on X-Factor and Orion and George PĂ©rez Brave and the Bold, volume 2. He has also worked with creators such as Bob Budiansky, Colleen Doran, Ron Garney, Mike Grell, Michael Netzer (Nasser), Kevin Nowlan, Don Perlin, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Barry Windsor-Smith.
Mark Allen Shepherd 1961, actor, Morn - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Birthright: Part 1", 1993), Morn - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "Caretaker",1995), Morn - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (91 episodes, 1993-1999). Morn was a Lurian freighter captain who frequented Quark's on Deep Space 9.
Hallie Todd 1962, actress, Lal - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "The Offspring", 1990), Summer Gale - Disney's Kim Possible (1 episode, "Day of the Snowmen", 2003)(voice).
Kevin Rahm 1971,actor, Norvo Tigan - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "Prodigal Daughter", 1999).
Aaron Lopresti 1964, comic book artist, worked for Marvel, DC, Malibu. Lopresti first published work of note was the Malibu Comics title Sludge, in 1993. He has since gone on to illustrate such titles as Marvel's X-men and Captain Marvel and was the artist for DC's Wonder Woman for issues #20-23, 26-30, 32-40, switching shifts with artist Bernard Chang. He is currently doing covers for both Adventure Comics and Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton, as well as interior art for Justice League: Generation Lost.
Rodrigo Diaz Ricci 1971, cartoonist, comic book artist, graphic designer, works mainly in horror genre.
Alan Napier 1903, actor, best known for playing Alfred in the 1960s Batman television series. Willie Spears - The Invisible Man Returns (1940), Doc Carver - Cat People (1942), Aga - Sinbad the Sailor (1947), Douglas Jessup - Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949), Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1949) TV episode, Commissioner Peters - Tarzan's Peril (1951), Parson Glennie - Moonfleet (1955), Elinu, the High Priest - The Mole People (1956), Dean - Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), Capt. Protheroe - The Twilight Zone (1 episode, 1963), Sir Pelinore - The Sword in the Stone (1963) (voice), Alfred - Batman (1966), Alfred - Batman (115 episodes, 1966-1968).
Karl Kesel 1959, comics writer and inker whose works have primarily been under contract for DC Comics. Kesel worked with comic book illustrator Brandon McKinney on issues #6 and #13 of the comic series Aliens: Space Marines (published through Dark Horse Comics), which accompanied alien figures in the first line of Alien figures released by Kenner in 1992. He is the creator of the modern Superboy character, Kon-El, who debuted and was defined during the "Return of Superman" story arc, starting from Adventures of Superman #500.
Peter A. Morisi 1928, He is best-known as creator of the 1960s Charlton Comics series Peter Cannon ... Thunderbolt, a thoughtful superhero comic that contained some of the earliest respectful invocations of Eastern mysticism in American pop culture.
Charles "Chas" Samuel Addams 1912, cartoonist, known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters. Some of the recurring characters, who became known as The Addams Family, became the basis for two live-action television series, two animated TV series, three motion pictures, and a Broadway musical. His first drawing in The New Yorker ran on February 6, 1932 (a sketch of a window washer), and his cartoons ran regularly in the magazine from 1938, when he drew the first instance of what came to be called the Addams Family, until his death. His cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, and he also created a syndicated comic strip, Out of This World, which ran in 1956. There are many collections of his work, including Drawn and Quartered (1942) and Monster Rally (1950), the latter with a foreword by John O'Hara. Typical of Addams's work, one cartoon shows two men standing in a room labeled "Patent Attorney." One is pointing a bizarre gun out the window toward the street and saying, "Death ray, fiddlesticks! Why, it doesn't even slow them up!"
Terry Moore 1929, actress, Venus - Batman (3 episodes, 1967).
Valentino Musetti 1943, actor, Prisoner / Audience member - Doctor Who (10 episodes, 1964-1972), Spirit Mateo - Space: 1999 (1 episode, "The Troubled Spirit", 1976), Napier Hood - Batman (1989).


Events

1929, Buck Rogers comic strip makes its first newspaper appearance after John Flint Dille reinvents original "Anthony Rogers" character created by Philip Francis Nowlan in 1928.
1929, Tarzan of the Apes was adapted in newspaper strip form with illustrations by Hal Foster
1934, Flash Gordon comic strip begins. Drawn by Alex Raymond.
1980, Blakes 7, 3rd series Episode 1. "Aftermath"
1991, Star Trek:TNG, "Data's Day" airs.
1998, Space Island One airs on Sky One.

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