Chic Young, Blondie, Beautiful Bab, Dumb Dora, Colonel Potterby and the Dutchess, Target and the Targeteers, Sinbad, Space Patrol, The Heap.

Today Chic Young would have been 110 years old. He did over 15,000 Blondie strips in his lifetime which is so impressive.


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Birthdays

Chic Young (Murat Bernard Young) 1901, cartoonist, created the popular, long-running comic strip Blondie. In 1921, he learned that the Newspaper Enterprise Association was seeking an artist to do a comic strip about an attractive young woman. He headed for Cleveland and earned a salary of $22 a week while drawing The Affairs of Jane about a struggling film actress who dreamed of graduating from low-budget pictures to stardom. The short-lived strip, which began in 1921 on Halloween came to a conclusion five months later on March 18, 1922. Young soon left for New York where he created another female flapper strip, Beautiful Bab, which the Bell Syndicate began distributing on July 15, 1922. It ran for only four months but landed him a job in the art department of King Features Syndicate. In 1924, he began Dumb Dora, about brunette Dora who "wasn't as dumb as she looked." In the spring of 1930, after six years of seeing Dora increase in popularity, Young requested more money and strip ownership. This action led to changes, and Paul Fung took over Dumb Dora in April 1930 when Young dropped it in order to create Blondie. Blondie began September 8, 1930, and almost immediately became the most popular comic strip in America, gaining even more readers when Blondie and Dagwood married in 1933, followed by the 1934 birth of Baby Dumpling (later known as Alexander). Young took a year's hiatus in 1937 when the death of his first son made it difficult for him to draw Baby Dumpling. During his lifetime, he produced more than 15,000 Blondie strips. His other works include the strip Colonel Potterby and the Duchess, which ran as a topper strip on the Blondie page from 1935 through 1963.

Dick Briefer 1915, comic book artist, created the superhero team the Target and the Targeteers for Novelty Press in 1940. introduced the eight-page feature "New Adventures of Frankenstein", an updated version of the much-adapted Frankenstein monster created by Mary Shelley in her 1818 novel Frankenstein.[9] Considered by comics historians including Don Markstein as "America's first ongoing comic book series to fall squarely within the horror genre", the feature, set in New York City circa 1930, starred a guttural, rampaging creature actually dubbed "Frankenstein" (unlike Shelley's nameless original monster).

Leo Gullotta 1946, actor, Nadir - Sinbad of the 7 Seas (1989).

K Callan 1942, actress, Lenore Mackenzie - Quantum Leap (1 episode, "The Americanization of Machiko - August 4, 1953", 1989), Alsia - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "Rival", 1994), Martha Kent - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (87 episodes, 1993-1997), Tilly Hill - King of the Hill (3 episodes, 2000-2003), Charlie - Heroes (1 episode, "Chapter Eighteen 'Brave New World'", 2010).

Algis Budrys 1931, sci-fi author, His first published science fiction story was "The High Purpose", which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1952. Beginning in 1952 Budrys worked as editor and manager for such science fiction publishers as Gnome Press and Galaxy Science Fiction. Some of his science fiction in the 1950s was published under the pen name "John A. Sentry", a reconfigured Anglification of his Lithuanian name. Among his other pseudonyms in the SF magazines of the 1950s and elsewhere, several revived as bylines for vignettes in his magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, is "William Scarff". He also wrote several stories under the names "Ivan Janvier" or "Paul Janvier." He also used the pen name "Alger Rome" in his collaborations with Jerome Bixby. Budrys's 1960 novella Rogue Moon was nominated for a Hugo Award, and was later anthologized in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two (1973). His Cold War science fiction novel Who?

Lee Van Cleef 1925, actor, Hauk - Escape from New York (1981) , Herrick / Lesser / Loren - Space Patrol (3 episodes, 1952-1953) (TV Series), Corp. Stone - The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953).

Jane Ross 1932, actress, Tamoon - Star Trek:TOS (1 episode, "The Gamesters of Triskelion", 1968), Human - Planet of the Apes (1968).

Ernest C. "Ernie" Schroeder 1916, comic book artist and a commercial illustrator and sculptor, best known for drawing and co-writing Hillman Periodicals' influential muck-monster The Heap from 1949 to 1953. Other characters with which Schroeder is associated include Hillman's Airboy and Harvey Comics' Shock Gibson and Spirit of '76.

Patrick Sabongui 1975, actor, Taliban Guard / Kanaan - Stargate: Atlantis (5 episodes, 2006-2008), Soldier #1 - The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), Knot Top Gang Leader - Watchmen (2009), Ahmed - Fringe (1 episode, "Fracture", 2009), Weasley Bouncer - Caprica (1 episode, "Ghosts in the Machine", 2010).

Events

1952, Radar Men from the Moon (Republic Pictures) is released. It was the first Commando Cody serial and was produced in 12 chapters.

1966, A five-page Spirit story, set in New York City, appeared as part of an article about the Spirit in the New York Herald Tribune.

1978, Blakes 7, 1st.series Episode 2. "Space Fall"

1979, Blakes 7, 2nd series Episode 1. "Redemption"

1996, The first episode of "3rd Rock from the Sun" aired on NBC.