And those are just the characters he created for DC. We won’t even mention Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, the Question, Mr. A… But who, you may still ask, is Steve Ditko? By a handy coincidence, there was an hour-long documentary four years ago asking that very same query… Long may he wave.
100 years ago today, Mary Blair, an artist whose unique style was immortalized in classic Walt Disney films of the 1940s and 50s and theme parks, was born in McAlester, Oklahoma. She was best known for the artwork she contributed to animations including Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and Cinderella, and the look for It’s…
On October 20, 1951, CBS unveiled its Eye Device logo, better known as the CBS Eye. It was created by William Golden, theoretically based on a Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign as well as a Shaker drawing. The following season, as Golden prepared a new “ident”, CBS President Frank Stanton insisted on keeping the Eye device…
Today is a very, very special day in the history of Aquaman–it’s his 70th birthday! And when we say 70th birthday, we don’t mean the birthday DC Comics has seen fit to give him within their continuity–that’s January 29. No, we mean that on this day seventy years ago–September 25, 1941–More Fun Comics #73, Aquaman’s…
And for his birthday, the co-creator of the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Captain America, Thor, and the Hulk is trying to blow out Marvel’s corporate headquarters.
Really, what more need be said? It’s Shatner’s universe, we’re just living in it. In his honor, today also happens to be the Third Annual “Talk Like William Shatner Day”. To give you some useful pointers, here’s the third best William Shatner impersonator in the world, Maurice LaMarche…
On this day in 1917, Will Eisner, American comics pioneer and creator of The Spirit, was born. He would have been 94 today. To celebrate, Google has devoted its Doodle to him today, and Scott McCloud (his Understanding Comics is the intellectual heir to Eisner’s Comics And Sequential Art) writes up a tribute at the…
RT @realMickFoley: Hopefully the chapter at http://mickfoley.typepad.com can be one voice in a much larger conversation. Please RT # Spoiler Alert (altho no surprise) RT @Latinoreview: Exclusive: We Know Who The Bad Guys Are In ‘The Avengers’ http://bit.ly/gkJuND # @Paul_Dini How often do you watch snakes eat babies? And why aren’t you helping the baby?…
From Derrick FergusonIt’s my birthday, but you guys are the ones who get the present. For one day only, February 8th, you can get an original 24,000 word Dillon adventure. WANT A FREE DILLON STORY?? That’s right, I said free and I meant free. Just send an email to DerrickFerguson1@aol.com with “Happy Birthday” in the…
Happy birthday to Stan the Man! (If you don’t know who he is, I can’t imagine why you’re even reading this website.) Excelsior from all of us true believers! May you keep making cameos in Marvel films for decades to come… …in fact, we have a few of them here.
Since Tom and The Comics Reporter wishes everybody else in the industry happy birthday, we have to make sure that someone wishes him one… and if we don’t, who will? Go read his stuff and enjoy.
…which, I suppose, is why some people made a video saluting him. (DEAR GOD NO NOT SAFE FOR WORK) What’s amazing is that I know a bunch of women who have expressed similar sentiments about the man’s writing. Now if only other comic book writers got the same treatment…
