Invaders from Mars, Berni Wrightson, House of Mystery, Swamp Thing, The Pagemaster, Stargate Universe, Blade, Smallville, Babylon 5, Level 9.

Quite a few birthdays today but I would like to point out Berni Wrightson and Robert Picardo, but especially Tom Jackson who I ran into at a farmers market in Calgary. Tom had a home just outside of Calgary and apparently stop into the farmers market on the weekends. He was nice enough to have a picture taken with my family.


Enjoy !!!



Birthdays

Jan Duursema 1954, comic book artist known for her work on the Star Wars comics franchise. She was the creator of Denin and Vila from Naldar, the Twi'lek Jedi Aayla Secura and the Kiffar Jedi Quinlan Vos. She was the basis for the character Ur-Sema Du.

Leif Erickson 1911, actor, Mr. George MacLean - Invaders from Mars (1953), William Henry Cameron - The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping (1973) (TV), Ben Wallace The Fantastic Journey (1 episode, "Vortex", 1977), Frederick Carlson - Project U.F.O. (1 episode, "Sighting 4004: The Howard Crossing Incident", 1978).

Bernie "Berni" Wrightson 1948, comic book artist, known for his horror illustrations and comic books. His first professional comic work appeared in House of Mystery #179 in 1968. He continued to work on a variety of mystery and anthology titles for both DC and its principal rival, Marvel Comics. In 1971, with writer Len Wein, Wrightson co-created the muck creature Swamp Thing for DC. He also co-created Destiny, later to become famous in the work of Neil Gaiman. In 1971 he also published BadTime Stories, a horror/science fiction comics anthology featuring his own scripts and artwork, each story being drawn in a different medium (ink wash, tonal pencil drawings, duoshade paper, screen tones, e.g., along with traditional pen-and-ink and brushwork). By 1974. he had left DC to work at Warren Publishing, for whose black-and-white horror-comics magazines he produced a series of original work as well as short story adaptations. In 1975, Wrightson joined with fellow artists Jeff Jones, Michael Kaluta, and Barry Windsor-Smith to form The Studio, a shared loft in Manhattan where the group would pursue creative products outside the constraints of comic book commercialism. Though he continued to produce sequential art, Wrightson at this time began producing artwork for numerous posters, prints, calendars, and even coloring books. He also drew sporadic comics stories and single illustrations for National Lampoon magazine from 1973 - 1983. Wrightson spent seven years drawing approximately 50 detailed pen-and-ink illustrations to accompany an edition of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, which the artist considers among his most personal work. Wrightson illustrated the comic book adaptation of the film Stephen King-penned horror film Creepshow. This led to several other collaborations with King, including illustrations for the novella "Cycle of the Werewolf", the restored edition of King's apocalyptic horror epic, The Stand, and Wolves of the Calla, the fifth installment of King's Dark Tower series.

Robert Picardo 1953, actor, Tony Sepulveda - Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories (1 episode, 1986), Agent Richard Morse - The Man Who Fell to Earth (1987) (TV), The Cowboy - Innerspace (1987), Rick Raddnitz - Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), Voice of Johnnycab - Total Recall (1990) (voice), Eddie G. - Batman: The Animated Series (1 episode, "The Man Who Killed Batman", 1993), Pirate - The Pagemaster (1994) (voice), The Doctor - Star Trek: Voyager (170 episodes, 1995-2001), Emergency Medical Hologram - Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Dr. Lewis Zimmerman / EMH Mark I - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, 1997), Emmet Harley - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "Sarcophagus", 1998), Ralph, Clean Room Technician - Small Soldiers (1998), Professor Reddschift - Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (1 episode, "First Missions", 2000), Maj. Michael McGrath - Seven Days (1 episode, "Revelation", 2001), Cod Commando - Grim & Evil (1 episode, "Little Rock of Horrors/The Pie Who Loved Me/Dream a Little", 2002) The Doctor - Star Trek: The Experience - Borg Invasion 4D (2004), Amazo / Reporter / Blackhawk - Justice League (6 episodes, 2002-2004), Richard Woolsey - Stargate SG-1 (7 episodes, 2004-2007), Trent Appelbaum - The 4400 (1 episode, "Weight of the World", 2005), Principal White - Ben 10: Race Against Time (2007) (TV)(voice), Edward Teague - Smallville (2 episodes, 2008), Richard Woolsey - Stargate: Atlantis (26 episodes, 2006-2009), Milton - Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010) (voice), Richard Woolsey - SGU Stargate Universe (1 episode, "Seizure", 2011).

Elias Toufexis 1975, actor, Donny Flannigan - Blade: The Series (1 episode, "Sacrifice", 2006), Replicator - Stargate: Atlantis (2 episodes, 2006), Rundle - Flash Gordon (1 episode, "Sorrow", 2007), McCulloch - Ba'al (2008) (TV), Injured Driver / Adam Barlowe - Eureka (3 episodes, 2010), Luke / Bronson / Emil LaSalle - Smallville (3 episodes, 2004-2010).

Tom Jackson 1958, actor, Lakanta - Star Trek: Next Generation (1 episode, "Journey's End", 1994), Color Commentator - Sliders (1 episode, "Eggheads", 1995).

Events

1954, The ABC TV network airs the first Disneyland TV show, on Wednesday night, 7:30 to 8:30. The first episode is titled The Disneyland Story. Approximately 30.8 million American viewers watch the show.

1966, Star Trek:TOS, "Miri" airs.

1967, Star Trek:TOS, "Catspaw" airs.

1973, Star Trek:TAS, "The Magicks of Megas-Tu" airs.

1997, Star Trek:DS9, "Favor the Bold" airs.

1997, Babylon 5 Episode 88 - "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" first aired

2000, Level 9 airs.