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Birthdays
| Troy Boyle 1966, comic book artist and writer, Boyle is best known for his gritty revenge fantasy, The Return of Happy the Clown. |
| Jon J Muth 1960, comic artist, His works include J. M. DeMatteis' graphic novel Moonshadow, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: The Wake (along with Michael Zulli, Charles Vess), Mike Cary's Lucifer: Nirvana and Swamp Thing: Roots. |
| Ed Piskor 1982, alternative comics artist, best known for his artistic collaborations with underground comics pioneers Harvey Pekar of American Splendor fame, and Jay Lynch who illustrates Garbage Pail Kids. He has a cult following amongst minicomic fans with his series Deviant Funnies and Isolation Chamber. |
| Richard W. "Dick" Sprang 1915, comic book artist, penciler, best known for his work on the superhero Batman during the period fans and historians call Golden Age of Comic Books. Sprang was responsible for the 1948 redesign of the Batmobile and the original design of the Riddler, who has appeared in film, television and other media adaptations. Sprang's Batman was notable for its square chin, expressive face and barrel chest. From the late 1930s to the early 1940s, Sprang continued to work as a freelance illustrator, primarily for such pulp magazines as Popular Detective, Popular Western, Phantom Detective, G-Men, Detective Novels Magazine, Crack Detective and Black Hood Detective/Hooded Detective, for which last he also wrote some stories. Between 1937 and 1938, Sprang provided assistance on the King Features Syndicate comic strips Secret Agent X-9 (layouts) and The Lone Ranger (pencil assists). In 1938, he also wrote briefly for the Lone Ranger radio series. With Norman Fallon and Ed Kressey, he co-founded the studio Fallon-Sprang. The studio as a comics packagers for such "supermen" features as "Power Nelson" (introduced in Prize Comics #1, March 1940) and "Shock Gibson"; "human interest" features such as "Speed Martin"; and the "interplanetary" feature "Sky Wizard" and detective feature "K-7" (both introduced in Hillman Periodicals' Miracle Comics #1, Feb. 1940. Sprang submitted art samples to DC Comics editor Whitney Ellsworth, who assigned him a Batman story in 1941. Sprang's first published Batman work was the Batman and Robin figures on the cover of Batman #18 (Aug.-Sept. 1943), reproduced from the art for page 13 of the later-published Detective Comics #84 (Feb. 1944). Sprang's first original published Batman work, and first interior-story work, appeared in Batman #19 (Oct.-Nov. 1943), for which he penciled and inked the cover and the first three Batman stories, and penciled the fourth Batman story, inked by Norm Fallon. Like all Batman artists of the time, Sprang went uncredited as a ghost artist for Kane. Sprang thereafter worked almost entirely on Batman comics and covers and on the Batman newspaper strip, becoming one of the primary Batman artists in the character's first 20 years. In 1955, Sprang got the chance to draw Superman, when he replaced Curt Swan as the primary artist for the Superman/Batman team-up stories in World's Finest Comics, on which he worked until his retirement in 1963. Sprang also worked on a couple of stories for the main Superman comic, "including the tale that introduced the first, prototype Supergirl". |
| Rudy Vallee 1901, actor / singer / producer, Lord Marmaduke Ffogg - Batman (3 episodes, 1967). |
| Dey Young 1955, actress, Teen Girl in Prologue - Strange Invaders (1983), Waitress - Spaceballs (1987), Amy - The Running Man (1987), Hannah Bates - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "The Masterpiece Society", 1992), Judy Bishop - The X-Files (1 episode, "Born Again", 1994), Arissa - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "A Simple Investigation", 1997), Carol Martin - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "Last Supper", 1998), Keyla - Star Trek: Enterprise (1 episode, "Two Days and Two Nights", 2002). |
Events
| 1967, Transporter room scenes are filmed for TOS: "Mirror, Mirror". |
| 1987, Majel Barrett's first scenes as Lwaxana Troi are filmed for TNG: "Haven". |
| 1996, Winnie Winkle comic strip ends after 79 years. |
| 2003, Firefly, "The Message" airs. |
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