Happy Birthday, Tom Spurgeon!

You would have been 52 today, and we all still miss you.

You would have been 52 today, and we all still miss you.
Born in 1958 in Palm Beach, Florida, artist Marc Silvestri joined Marvel Comics in the late 1980s, and became the penciller on Uncanny X-Men from 1987 to 1990. In 1992 he and six other artists broke away to form Image Comics. Each artist had his own imprint, and Silvestri’s was Top Cow, which is best…
Born in the Bronx, NY in 1930, Howie Schneider is best remembered for Eek & Meek, the comic about two mice (later two men) he created for the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) in 1965 and ran for 35 years. Schneider also published several cartoon books, wrote a daily cartoon called Unschucked for the Provincetown Banner…
The happy mutants at Tor.com– no wait, the happy mutants are at BoingBoing, the snarky geeks are at io9, and the ink-stained shockwave riders are at Tor.com– are running a Dan Goldman comic, "Yes We Will", in which Obama deals with the greatest problem of his first term, as predicted by Nostradamus. Or the Mayans….
Robert E. Howard’s famous barbarian, Conan celebrates 80 years. Join the celebration at www.conan.com. New Pulp Author Ed Erdelac wrote a nice blog on appreciating Conan at http://emerdelac.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/happy-80th-birthday-conan-the-cimmerian/ All Pulp wishes Conan a happy 80th Birthday. Here’s looking at the next 80.
Geoff Johns was born today in 1973 in Michigan where the writer himself admits, it is "damn cold." Like so many of us, Geoff had a passion for the creative (screenwriting, graphic design, storytelling, your basic artist jack-of-all-trades stuff) but he got lucky in Los Angeles when after a phonecall, he became an intern to…
From Sting’s 60th Birthday Party at the Beacon Theater in New York City, here’s birthday boy Robert Downey Jr. sharing vocals with Sting on “Driven To Tears”: Happy 50th Birthday, RDJ!