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Birthdays
| Charles "Sandy" Plunkett 1955, artist and comics writer. He made his debut in the comic book world in the late 1970s, with several works for Marvel, DC and Gold Key comics. In the 1980s and 1990s he worked mostly for Marvel, occasionally writing some stories as well as drawing — mainly for covers. |
| Evelyn Venable 1913, actress, The Blue Fairy - Pinocchio (1940) (voice) |
| Herschel Sparber 1943, actor, Hunter - King Kong Lives (1986), Security Guard - A Goofy Movie (1995) (voice), President Jaresh-Inyo - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2 episodes, 1996). |
| Katherine Irene Kurtz 1944, sci-fi writer / fantasy writer, author of numerous fantasy novels, most notably the Deryni novels. She is known to be friends with Anne McCaffrey. She was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. She appeared as an Enterprise crewmember in the recreation deck scenes in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. |
| Mark La Mura 1948, actor, John Doe - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Transfigurations", 1990). |
| Anthony Guidera 1964, actor, Cardassian - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "The Circle", 1993), Robbie, Guy Picking Up Sil - Species (1995), Carson Napier - Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1 episode, "Tarzan and the Amtorans", 1997), Co-Pilot Tucker - Armageddon (1998/I). |
| Dave Lewis 1977, comic book artist, Lewis is the founder of the Caption Box comic book imprint. His 2005 work, The Lone and Level Sands (written by Lewis, and illustrated by Marvin Perry Mann and Jennifer Rodgers), won a Howard E. Day Prize and has been nominated for three Harvey Awards in 2007. His 2002 creation, Mortal Coils, was named one of the winners of the 2003 Cinescape Literary Genre Competition, and in 2004 it was given the Paper Screen Gem Award for Mystery/Suspense. |
| Steve Epting 19--, comic book artist, His assignments for First included backup stories for Nexus, guest-artist duties on Dreadstar and Whisper, and two miniseries starring Nexus supporting character Judah Maccabee: Hammer of God and Hammer of God: Sword of Justice. By early 1991, First Comics had gone out of business, and Epting was sending submissions to other comics publishers. Soon, he found work at Marvel Comics. Originally assigned to draw half the issues in a six-part bi-weekly The Avengers story arc, Epting ended up drawing five of the six issues (#335-339.) Shortly thereafter, Epting became the full-time penciler on Avengers. After leaving Avengers in 1994, Epting spent the next few years working on Marvel's franchise of X-Men books. He had a brief run on the ongoing X-Factor series, but mostly concentrated on annuals, specials, and mini-series. These included X-Men '97, Bishop: X.S.E., the Marvel Comics/Image Comics cross-over Team X/Team 7, and Factor-X, the Age of Apocalypse timeline counterparts of X-Factor. Epting also collaborated with writer Roger Stern on a story starring Marvel's World War II heroes, The Invaders. It was serialized in the first three issues of Marvel's short-lived anthology title Marvel Universe. This Invaders story was inked by one of Epting's heroes, Al Williamson. Towards the end of the 90s, Epting moved from Marvel to DC Comics. Most of his work for DC was on Aquaman, where he was teamed up with writer Dan Jurgens. Their Aquaman run began with issue #63, but sales of Aquaman had been declining for a long time, and the Jurgens/Epting team was unable to save the book from cancellation. Their final issue of Aquaman was #75. He also had a stint as the main artist on the popular Superman comic book. In 2000, Epting returned briefly to Marvel's Avengers, which had been relaunched three years earlier with writer Kurt Busiek. Epting drew issues #36 and #37, though most of his work during this time was done for the independent comics publisher, CrossGen. Epting drew issues #1-25 of Crux, a fantasy-adventure book he co-created with writer Mark Waid. But Epting's next CrossGen project, El Cazador, looked like it might be his first masterpiece. A meticulously researched historical adventure centering around a female pirate, it is considered a high point in the careers of both Epting and writer/co-creator Chuck Dixon. Unfortunately, El Cazador was launched just as CrossGen was on its last legs, and it was cancelled after only six issues. In 2004, Epting returned to Marvel with Captain America, written by Ed Brubaker with whom he would continue to work on The Marvels Project. In November 2010, Epting began as the artist on Marvel Comics' flagship title, Fantastic Four. Beginning in issue #583 through #587, Epting illustrated writer Jonathan Hickman's story "Three", in which Johnny Storm died. Epting currently is the artist on the Marvel Comics series, FF. |
Events
| 1896, McFadden’s Row of Flats comic strip featuring the Yellow Kid begins. |
| 1954, Hi & Lois comic strip begins. Created by Mort Walker and drawn by Dik Browne. |
| 1968, Star Trek:TOS, "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" airs. |
| 1995, Babylon 5 Episode 42 - "Divided Loyalties" first aired |
| 2000, Star Trek:Voyager, "Drive" airs. |
| 2002, Firefly, "Jaynestown" airs. |
| 2004, Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) begins. |
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