Today in Comics History; July 29: Happy birthday, Dave Stevens!

Born on this day in 1955, Dave Stevens, comics writer and artist and animation and movie storyboarder. We know him best as the creator and author/artist of The Rocketeer, and he's also done work on Jonny Quest, Airboy, and Bettie Page Comics (natch!)!



from Amazing Heroes #37 (Fantagraphics, December 15, 1983)



Dave's movie/TV credits include storyboarding (alongside Doug Wildey) on Super Friends and The Godzilla Power Hour and for Raiders of the Lost Ark and Michael Jackson's video of "Thriller". He also designed costumes for the 1991 The Flash series and inked Russ Manning on the comic strips of Tarzan and Star Wars!

From Tom Scioli's Jack Kirby biographical novel:


from Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics (Ten Speed, July 2020), script and art by Tom Scioli
A Dave Steven self-portrait cover and a cool photo from the pages of The Comics Journal:



from The Comics Journal #117 (Fantagraphics, September 1987), cover by Dave Stevens, photograph by Paul Hunt
We lost Dave Stevens in 2008 — far too soon.


from The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror #2 (IDW, March 2013)
Happy birthday, and we miss you, Dave.