Al Capp began the Lil Abner comic strip in 1934. Al Capp is one of my favorite comic strip artists and one day I hope to own at least one original piece.
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Birthdays
| Bret Blevins 1960, comic book artist, animation storyboard artist, and painter. He is perhaps best known for his stint as the regular penciler of New Mutants. Blevins first regular job on a superhero comic was on the 1987 revival of Strange Tales. Strange Tales was an anthology that featured two ongoing features produced by two different creative teams — Cloak and Dagger drawn by Blevins, and Doctor Strange. |
| Jim Mooney 1919, comic book artist best known as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, and as the signature artist of DC Comics' Supergirl in the 50's and 60's. His first assignment was the new feature "The Moth" in Fox Publications' Mystery Men Comics #9-12 (April-July 1940). Mooney went on staff at Fiction House for approximately nine months, working on features including "Camilla" and "Suicide Smith". He then began freelancing for Timely Comics. In 1946, Mooney began a 22-year association with the company that would evolve into DC. He began with the series Batman as a ghost artist for credited artist Bob Kane. Mooney branched out to the series Superboy, and such features as "Dial H For Hero" in House of Mystery, and Tommy Tomorrow in both Action Comics and World's Finest Comics. He also contributed to Atlas Comics, the 1950s iteration of Marvel, on at least a handful of 1953-54 issues of Lorna the Jungle Queen. Most notably, Mooney drew the backup feature "Supergirl" in Action Comics from 1959 to 1968. Mooney would go on to ink a classic run of Amazing Spider-Man (#65, 67-88; Oct. 1968, Dec. 1968 - Sept. 1970), which he recalled as "finalising it over John’s layouts". Mooney also worked on Marvel-related coloring books, for the child-oriented Spidey Super Stories, and for a Spider-Man feature in a children's-magazine spin-off of the PBS educational series The Electric Company, which included segments featuring Spider-Man. On the other end of the spectrum, he drew in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Marvel publisher Martin Goodman's bawdy men's-adventure magazine comics feature "The Adventures of Pussycat". |
| Robert Burton 1895, actor, First General - The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959), Dr. Frederick Wilson - Invasion of the Animal People (1959), Doctor - Twilight Zone (1 episode, "Mr. Denton on Doomsday", 1959), Senator Washborn - Dennis the Menace (1 episode, "Horseless Carriage Club", 1962), Prof. Galbraith - The Slime People (1963). |
| Willard Sage 1922, actor, Chief of Staff / First Reporter / Coulter - The Outer Limits (3 episodes, 1963-1964), Lieutenant James - The Invaders (1 episode, "The Experiment", 1967), Thann - Star Trek (1 episode, "The Empath", 1968), Hook / Inspector Swan - Land of the Giants (2 episodes, 1968-1970). |
| Kevin Tighe 1944, actor, Root - The Six Million Dollar Man (1 episode, "The Last of the Fourth of Julys", 1974), General - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "Final Exam", 1998), Henry Janeway - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "11:59", 1999), Senator Lenhoff - The 4400 (2 episodes, 2007), Anthony Cooper - Lost (6 episodes, 2005-2010). |
| Jane Carr 1950, actress, Lady Dorma - The Marvel Action Hour: The Fantastic Four (1 episode, "Now Comes the Sub-Mariner", 1994), Timov - Babylon 5 (1 episode, "Soul Mates", 1994), Inge - Hey Arnold! (1 episode, "Arnold Betrays Iggy/Helga and the Nanny", 1998)(voice), Mary Reed - Star Trek: Enterprise (1 episode, "Silent Enemy", 2002), Nanny Maim - Kim Possible (1 episode, "Nursery Crimes", 2007)(voice), Pud'n - The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (30 episodes, 2001-2007)(voice), Mama Cosma - The Fairly OddParents (4 episodes, 2001-2008)(voice). |
| Kathryn Graf 1958, actress, Bajoran Woman - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "A Man Alone", 1993). |
Events
| 1928, Tim Tyler's Luck comic strip by Lyman Young began. Lyman was Chic Young's older brother. The strip ended in Aug, 1996. |
| 1934, Lil Abner comic strip by Al Capp begins |
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