Today in Comics History, March 11: Happy birthday, Anton Yelchin

Born on this date in 1989: Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor. Among his other roles, he played the Kelvin-timeline's version of Ensign Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek movies from 2009-2016.


Anton died at the age of 27 in 2016. He would have been 33 today. That's far too young to be taken from us.


from Star Trek (2011 series) #20 (IDW, April 2013), script by Ryan Parrott, pencils by Luca Lamberti, colors by Arianna Florean, letters by Tom B. Long
Fly high and free, Anton. Straight on 'til morning.