Today in Comics History, September 19: Happy birthday, William Golding!

Born on this day in 1911: author William Golding, who wrote The Pyramid, the To the Ends of the Earth trilogy, The Inheritors, The Brass Butterfly, The Scorpion God, and of course Lord of the Flies, all about a young hobbit who has been tasked to toss a particularly nasty housefly into an evil volcano...Oh, I've made another one of my silly mistakes. It's actually a novelization of that episode of The Simpsons where all the kids were marooned on a deserted island from a sinking school bus.



from "The Lord of the Flies" in The Graphic Canon v.3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (Seven Stories, July 2013), from the niovel by William Golding, adapted by Trevor Alixopulos
William Golding! One heck of a writer, not onloy of novels, but of pithy epitaths to round out your superhero saga.

from Earth X #12 (Marvel, April 2000), co-plot and script by Jim Krueger, co-plot by Alex Ross, pencils and ink assists by John Paul Leon, inks by Bill Reinhold, colors by Melissa Edwards, letters by Todd Klein
(Click top picture to fattening-Earth-diet-size)
Happy birthday, Bill!