Showing posts with label Birthday post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birthday post. Show all posts
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Saturday, June 6, 2015
Monday, May 25, 2015
Happy 66th birthday Barry Windsor-Smith!
Barry Windsor-Smith (born Barry Smith in London, on 25 May 1949),
Barry Windsor Smith official site
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Happy 110th Birthday Alex Schomburg!
Alex Schomburg
born May 10, 1905 – died April 7, 1998
He was the preeminent World War II cover artist defining the look of all comic book covers of the time with his illustrations on most of Timely's (Marvel's) comics as well as many of Nedor's.
He was the preeminent World War II cover artist defining the look of all comic book covers of the time with his illustrations on most of Timely's (Marvel's) comics as well as many of Nedor's.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Monday, April 6, 2015
Happy 89th birthday Gil Kane!
Gil Kane (April 6, 1926 – January 31, 2000), is the legendary creator who was instrumental in bringing about the Silver Age of comics with his art work on the new Green Lantern (in DC Showcase #22, Sep. 1959) and the Atom (in DC Showcase #34, Sep 1961).
Self portrait of Gil Kane with his Atom colored by yours truly. |
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Happy 74th birthday Captain America!
Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Captain America is one of the first political comics ever created. Captain America Comics #1 (cover dated March 1941) pissed off a lot of people by having Cap punch out Hitler. The pro Nazi American's (yes, we did have them before the war) were incensed and even sent Timely Comics death threats.
Captain America has always been a special character ever since his first appearance in Captain America #1, March, 1941. 74 years ago. He speaks to the American spirit in all of us. He stands for the freedom and equality of all people no matter the race, gender, religion or sexual orientation. Whenever someone is trying to oppress another, he will be there to defend their rights to freedom.
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Friday, March 6, 2015
Happy 98th Birthday Will Eisner!
Will Eisner is the great old man of comics. He started out at the birth of comics, in the late 30's as a young, enthusiastic comic creator hopeful. Eisner grew up in Brooklyn with a painter father who had difficulty bringing in enough money to feed his family. This instilled in young Eisner a valuation for art and the impetus to work hard. In the late 30's he would start a "packaging" shop with Jerry Iger where they would make the contents of a whole comic and sell it to a publisher.
Friday, February 27, 2015
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Happy 67th Birthday Art Spiegelman!
In the early 80's Art Spiegelman and his wife Francoise Mouly decided to put out a very new and experimental magazine that would contain all of the awesome new comics that they were discovering over seas in Mouly's homeland of France as well as all the great new comic artists Spiegelman was meeting while teaching at New York's School of Visual Arts. They would call this new magazine RAW Magazine and among the new and experimental works that they would publish in it was Art's own story of his dad and his struggles surviving German concentration camps of WWII, a work that he would call Maus.
Happy Birthday
Art Spiegelman!
(born February 15, 1948)
Monday, February 9, 2015
Happy 86th Birthday Frank Frazetta!
Frank Frazetta is one of the greatest practitioners of the comic arts to have ever lived. His stunning draftsmanship is so perfect as to almost look inhuman. In all of his work, no matter the genre, from funny animal to romance, there is this barbarian aesthetic that peeks it’s head which eventually manifested itself into a career of illustrating Conan paperbacks and other barbarian paintings which were so revered that they spurred a whole genre of painting all it’s own.
Frank Frazetta
(February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010)
A giant of the Golden Age of Comics!
Frank Frazetta
(February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010)
A giant of the Golden Age of Comics!
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Happy 58th birthday Gilberto Hernandez!
Gilberto Hernández
born February 1, 1957, creator of
Heartbreak Soup
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Happy 58th Birthday Frank Miller!
If there had to be one face to represent the Copper Age of comics (the 80's) I'd pick Frank Miller to be it. When he came on the comics scene in the late 70's he brought something that was genuinely unique, and the work he did over that decade were some of the greatest moments in comics history.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Happy 109th birthday Robert E. Howard!
The Great Comic Book Heroes usually writes about comics but today we are going to celebrate the birthday of the great writer, Robert E. Howard, who is considered to be the father of Sword and Sorcery with his work on such stuff as Solomon Kane, King Kull and Conan!
Robert E. Howard!
(January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936)
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