An interesting collection of birthdays today.
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Birthdays
| Joe Matt 1963, cartoonist, He started drawing comics in 1987 and is best known for his autobiographical work, Peepshow. In addition to his cartooning career, he is known for his large collection of vintage Gasoline Alley comic strips. |
| Ethan Van Sciver 1974, comic book artist, best known for illustrating a number of titles including Green Lantern, Superman/Batman, New X-Men, and currently, The Flash: Rebirth. He is known for a meticulous and detail-oriented style that collaborator Geoff Johns reflects the depth to which Van Sciver explores the mythology of his characters. Van Sciver's entry into the comics industry came when he was 19 years old, and created, "a horrible little character called Cyberfrog." Cyberfrog was written and drawn by Van Sciver, and published by Hall of Heroes, and later, Harris Comics. He has contributed to a number of high-profile series for both Marvel Comics, and primarily DC Comics. Titles include his own Cyberfrog and such titles as X-Men, The Flash, Green Lantern, and Batman. Van Sciver's first major work for DC Comics was on the series Impulse, with writer Todd Dezago. For Marvel, Van Sciver produced several issues of Grant Morrison's New X-Men, starting as a two-issues-per-year fill-in artist for regular series artist Frank Quitely. Initially intending to also work on an X-Men miniseries with Johns while producing his small yearly commitment to Morrison's story, Van Sciver soon found himself asked to produce more and more issues, until a third 'regular' artist (Igor Kordey) was brought on board, and the Johns-penned miniseries was abandoned. In 2004, Johns and Van Sciver brought Hal Jordan back to the DC Universe as Earth's main Green Lantern officer in the six-issue miniseries Green Lantern: Rebirth, before the duo re-launched the Green Lantern title itself with a new volume. Van Sciver's work on the Green Lantern mythos helped explain and retcon many elements of the Green Lantern story which some fans and writers found nonsensical, such as the reasons of the power rings uselessness against the color yellow, and Hal Jordan's transformation into the supervillain Parallax. In 2007, Johns, Van Sciver, Dave Gibbons and Ivan Reis produced the eleven-issue Sinestro Corps War across the two Green Lantern monthly titles, the second part of a mooted trilogy of Green Lantern tales. This story launched the Sinestro Corps, the antithesis of the Green Lantern Corps, led by rogue Green Lantern Sinestro and his Qwardian yellow power ring. The series set the stage for a complete overhaul of the Lantern Corps, and introduced the emotional spectrum of power which provides energy to many different color variations of power rings. In 2008, Van Sciver was the guest artist on an issue of Justice League of America (vol. 2) #20 (June 2008). Van Sciver's 2009 work includes the six-issue mini-series The Flash: Rebirth, and variant covers for the Green Lantern and DC Comics event, The Blackest Night. |
| Mary Grace Canfield 1926, actress, Miss Grundy - Archie (1964) (TV). |
| Kevin McCorkle 1958, actor, Alien Captain - Star Trek: Voyager (1 episode, "The Omega Directive", 1998), Cult Man #2 - The X Files (2 episodes, 2002), Laurent Team Member - The Island (2005), Mr. Cramer - The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) (post-production). |
| Merritt Butrick 1959, actor, Dr. David Marcus - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Dr. David Marcus - Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), T'Jon - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Symbiosis", 1988). |
| Aaron Leach 1970, comic book artist, He has toiled with a number of other press publishers, including Ivory and Image Comics. For Image, he worked on the Something Wicked series. He contributed inking artwork to the third issue of IDW Publishing's The Space Between, "Strategy". |
| Shannon Watson 1974, actress, Vulcan Vailant Cadet - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "Valiant", 1998), 70's MIB Agent - Men in Black II (2002). |
Events
| 1977, Dr. Who, four-part serial "Horror of Fang Rock" airs. |
| 1993, The syndicated Disney TV show Going Bonkers airs. |
| 1997, Star Trek: Voyager "Scorpion, Part II" airs. |
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