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Birthdays
| Dave Cockrum 1943, comic book artist, known for his co-creation of the new X-Men characters Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus. Cockrum was also a prolific and inventive costume designer, who updated the uniforms of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and did the same for the new X-Men and many of their antagonists, in the 1970s and early 1980s. |
| Claudia Black 1972, actress, Cassandra - Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (2 episodes, 1997-1998), Sharon 'Shazza' Montgomery - Pitch Black (2000), Karina - Xena: Warrior Princess (1 episode, 2000), Officer Aeryn Sun - Farscape (88 episodes, 1999-2003), Aeryn Sun - Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004) (TV), Vala Mal Doran - Stargate SG-1 (29 episodes, 2004-2007), Vala Mal Doran - Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008), Vala Mal Doran / Quetesh -Stargate: Continuum (2008). |
| Carl Potts 1952, comic-book writer, artist, and editor best known for creating the series Alien Legion for the Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics. |
| Jim Woodring 1952, comic book artist and author, landed a job with the animation studio Ruby-Spears in the 1970s. He worked designing characters and doing layouts for cartoon shows about Mr. T and Rubik's Cube, and he has often said that these were the worst cartoons ever produced. During this time he formed friendships with and was somewhat mentored by celebrated comic book artists Gil Kane and Jack Kirby, who were both disgruntled with the comics business and were working in animation at the time. In 1980, he began self-publishing Jim, an anthology of comics, dream art, and free-form writing which he described as an "autojournal". Jim was published as a regular series by Fantagraphics Books starting in 1986, to critical acclaim if less than spectacular sales, and Woodring became a full-time cartoonist. Frank, a wordless surrealist series which began as an occasional feature within Jim, became his best-known work. Woodring created a short-lived comics series for children, Tantalizing Stories, with Mark Martin. He has also worked as a freelance illustrator and comics writer, writing comics based on Aliens and Star Wars for Dark Horse Comics and adapting the film Freaks with F. Solano Lopez. In recent years Woodring has also become a popular toy designer, with his strange creations sold in vending machines in Japan and available at hip comics shops in America. Woodring's most recent work is Weathercraft, released in 2010, featuring manhog a "unholy hybrid of human ambivalence". True to form, Weathercraft features intense surrealist art without any text. |
| Mack Reynolds 1917, sci-fi writer, As an pulp science fiction magazine author, he was published in Galaxy and Worlds of if. Popular in the '60s, his stories were often set in Utopian societies and had reformist themes. He was the first to write an original novel based on the TOS TV show that came out in hard cover and written for a young adult audience. |
| James F. Boeke 1938, actor, Klingon General #1 - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). |
| Harley Venton 1953, actor, Chief Hutchinson / Ensign Collins - Star Trek: The Next Generation (2 episodes, 1991-1992). |
Events
| 1940, Mandrake the Magician, based on the comic strip by Lee Falk, aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System. It ran until February 6, 1942. |
| 1959, First episode of Rocky and His Friends airs. |
| 1966, Cestus III location scenes are filmed for TOS: "Arena". |
| 1968, Main engineering scenes are filmed for TOS: "The Lights of Zetar". |
| 1969, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun is released. |
| 1991, Star Trek:TNG, "Unification II" airs. |
| 1996, Star Trek:DS9, "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." airs. |
| 1996, Babylon 5 Episode 68 - "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" first aired |
| 1998, Star Trek:DS9, "Once More Unto the Breach" airs. |
| 1998, Star Trek:Voyager, "Once Upon a Time" airs. |
| 1998, Babylon 5 Episode 108 - "Objects in Motion" first aired |
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