Matt Smith, Doctor Who, Wildstorm, Alien vs. Predator, Guardians of the Galaxy, Shadowhawk, Adv. of Flash Gordon, Out There.

The eleventh Doctor was born today. He's grown on me as the Doctor but he still isn't my favorite.


Enjoy !!!



Birthdays

Matt Smith 1982, actor, now the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in the British television series Doctor Who, first appearing in part two of The End of Time on 1 January 2010.

Karl Story 1967, comic book artist/inker, Story is one of the original members of Atlanta's influential Gaijin Studios, which has long held an industry-wide reputation for quality and as a training ground for some of comics' most prominent talents. Story is considered by many peers and fans to be one of the finest inkers of his generation. Over a career of almost two decades, he has carved a vast body of well-regarded work on Nightwing, Batman, Star Trek: Debt of Honor, Aliens versus Predator, X-Men, Wildstorm Summer Special, Terra Obscura, Tom Strong, Ocean, The American Way, and Midnighter, as well as many others.

Jim Valentino 1952, writer, penciler, editor, In the late 80s he began working for Marvel Comics on their super-hero titles. His most notable work for the company was as writer and artist on the future-set super-hero series Guardians of the Galaxy and selected issues of What If...? plus fill-ins on most of Marvel's major titles. He left Marvel in 1992 to co-found Image Comics with Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane and Marc Silvestri. Valentino originated several projects at Image, which he published through his own Shadowline imprint. Unlike at Marvel, where Valentino worked on characters owned by that company, the original Shadowline titles were all creator-owned. Of these the titles the most notable was the super-hero series ShadowHawk, on which he was both writer and artist. In 1997 he began another series in black and white called A Touch of Silver, a semi-autobiographical novel about a young comic book fan coming of age in the 1960s. Also during this time he repackaged most of his earliest autobiograpical work into a trade paperback called Vignettes. In 1999 he became the publisher of Image Comics. In 2003, Valentino was replaced as publisher of Image Comics by Erik Larsen, another co-founder of the company. Since then Valentino has resurrected Shadowline, his own arm of Image and has published a wide variety of books including a revived ShadowHawk series, The Collected normalman, a new auto-bio book, Drawing From Life as well as creator owned properties including Bomb Queen, After the Cape and Sam Noir. He also serves on the board of directors of the comic industry charity The Hero Initiative. In 2008 Valentino created Silverline Books an all-ages imprint for original graphic novels.

Ian Marter 1944, actor, Surgeon Lt. Harry Sullivan - Doctor Who (31 episodes, 1973-1975).

Jack Murdock 1922, actor, Beggar - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Time's Arrow: Part 1", 1992).

Jasmine Jessica Anthony 1996, actress, Talla (hologram) - Star Trek: Enterprise (1 episode, "These Are the Voyages…", 2005).

Events

1935, The Further Interplanetary Adventures of Flash Gordon debuted as a daily radio show, running five days a week. This series strayed farther afield from Raymond's strip, involving Flash, Dale and Zarkov in an adventure in Atlantis. The series aired 74 episodes, ending on February 6, 1936.

1951, "Out There" first airs (1951-1952) One of the first adult-oriented science fiction series of the early-fifties.

1962, Fireball XL5 airs on ATV.

1991, Star Trek:TNG, "The Game" airs.

1996, Babylon 5 Episode 66 - "Z'ha'dum" first aired

1996, Star Trek:DS9, "The Assignment" airs.

1998, Star Trek:DS9, "Chrysalis" airs.

1998, Star Trek:Voyager, "Extreme Risk" airs.

1998, Babylon 5 Episode 106 - "The Fall of Centauri Prime" first aired