Today in Comics History, February 13: Happy birthday, Chuck Yeager!

Born on this day in 1923: Brigadier General Chuck Yeager, Air Force officer, flying ace, and the fiorst man to fly faster than the speed of sound, except for some versions of Superman.

Chuck Yeager meets a young fan (who's gonna be a flier someday!) in a bar:



from DC: The New Frontier #1 (DC, March 2004); script, pencils, and inks by Darwyn Cooke; colors by Dave Stewart; letters by Jared K. Fletcher
Chuck Yeager meets another flier in another bar:


from "Idiot Box" in Airboy #29 (Eclipse, September 1987), script by Chuck Dixon, pencils by Graham Nolan, inks by Mark Nelson, colors by Olyoptics, letters by John Clark
From this we can conclude that Chuck Yeager liked to spend his time faster than the speed of sound, in bars, and in comic books.

Saluting you on your birthday, Chuck Yea...oh, he's already gone away at Mach 1.05.

Today in Comics History, January 8: Happy birthday, Eric Stephenson!

Born on this day: Eric Stephenson, comic book publisher (Image Comics), writer (Spider-Man Unlimited, Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man, Bloodstrike, Brigade, Supreme, Youngblood), editor (Extreme Studios, Image) and creator (Long Hot Summer, Nowhere Men, They're Not Like Us)!


from "The Extreme Scene" promo page in Image/Extreme Studios comics cover-dated December 1993
Being Publisher and Chief Creative Officer of Image apparently comes with a big office — so big that it takes a double-page spread to show it off!

from Airboy (2015 series) #1 (Image, June 2015); script by James Robinson; pencils, inks, colors, and letters by Greg Hinkle
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Here's Eric with his Image Comics bros! From left to right: Marc Silvestri, Erik Larsen, Eric Stephenson, Robert Kirkman, Jim Valentino, and Todd McFarlane.


from I Hate Image FCBD 2017 Special (Image, May 2017); script, pencils, and inks by Skottie Young, colors by Jean-Francois Beaulieu, letters by Nate Piekos
Happy birthday, Eric Stephenson! And we hope you're not the same Eric Stephenson who is punching his way through this gladiator arena.


from America's Got Powers #1 (Image, April 2012), script by Jonathan Ross, pencils by Bryan Hitch, inks by Andrew Currie and Paul Neary, colors by Paul Mounts, letters by Chris Eliopoulos