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Category Archives: Birthdays
Happy 85th Birthday, Frank Thorne!
Today, comic-art legend Frank Thorne (Marvel Comics’ Red Sonja; Atlas Comics’ Son of Dracula; and creator of Ghita of Alizaar, Lann, and Danger Rangerette) turns 85! As readers of this blog probably know, Thorne is not only one of my … Continue reading
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Happy 75th Birthday, Alex Nino!
Today, comic-art legend Alex Nino (DC’s Black Orchid, Tarzan, and Thriller; Marvel’s Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian; contributing designer on Mulan, Treasure Planet, and The Real Ghostbusters) turns 75! Yesterday I was telling you about our collaboration on the … Continue reading
Alex Nino: Superhero Artist?!
Alex Nino, one of the great Filipino comic book artists and an all-around great guy, turns 75 tomorrow, and as you can tell from the photo above (taken at the 2004 San Diego Con) I once got to meet him. … Continue reading
To Thomas, On His 78th Birthday
Tom Sutton was one of horror comics’ grand masters. Had he not passed away in 2002, today would have been his 78th birthday. I’d like to tell you about my encounters with this artist I’d long admired—he was, as the … Continue reading
Happy 65th Birthday, Bob Larkin!
“You may not know the name off the top of your head but if you’ve been reading Marvel comics, or SF and fantasy paperbacks, for any length of time at all then you’ve seen Bob Larkin’s work…. Once I learned … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Frank Thorne!
He wasn’t the first artist to draw Red Sonja, Hyborean Age “she-devil with a sword” and equal to Conan the Barbarian, or the first to render her in her iconic chainmail “bikini,” but Frank Thorne was certainly the one who … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Harlan Ellison®!
He’s one of the most revered—and sometimes controversial—writers of speculative fiction (and God help you if you call him just “a science-fiction writer”); a man who trademarked his name (hence the registration mark in the header up top), and whose … Continue reading
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