Showing posts with label DC Nation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DC Nation. Show all posts

Friday, July 26, 2024

Today in Comics History, July 26: Happy birthday, Helen Mirren!

Happy birthday today to actor Dame Helen Mirren (The Queen, The Long Good Friday, Excalibur, Calendar Girls, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Mosquito Coast, Prime Suspect, The Fate of the Furious, F9, Fast X, and many other movies that don't involve racing cars.)

She sneaks into this feature celebrating her birthday by the skin of her English teeth, because she technically is in comic books:


"DC Nation" from DC Comics cover-dated May 2023

Happy birthday, Helen! Try to fit in a guest appearance in a Batman something this coming year, okay?

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Today in Comics History, April 23: Happy birthday, Stephanie Phillips!

Born on this day: comics scripter Stephanie Phillips (Harley Quinn, Grim, Wonder Woman: Evolution, Taarna the Last Taarakian, A Man Among Ye, Nuclear Family, Capwolf & the Howling Commandos and many more)!


"DC Nation" from DC Comics cover-dated January 2022

Happy birthday, Stephanie!

Monday, March 25, 2024

Today in Comics History: Happy birthday, Kami Garcia!

Born on this day: young adult author and comic book writer Kami Garcia (the Caster Chronicles series, Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity, and several Teen Titans young adult graphic novels)!


"DC Nation" in DC Comics cover-dated April 2023

Happy birthday, Kami!

Sunday, October 01, 2023

Today in Comics History, October 1: Happy birthday, John Ridley!

Let's wish a very happy birthday today to John Ridley, movie screenwriter, novelist, and TV director (12 Years a Slave, Undercover Brother, Red Tails, Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The John Larroquette Show, Static Shock, Justice League, etc.) and comic book writer (The Other History of the DC Universe, I Am Batman, Black Panther, The Authority, The American Way, GCPD: The Blue Wall, Batman: One Bad Day: Penguin and more)!


from DC/Black Label Comics cover-dated January 2021

Happy birthday, John!


from batman: Black and White (2021 series) #3 (DC, April 2021)

Friday, July 21, 2023

Today in Comics History, July 21: Happy birthday, Gary Whitta!

A very happy birthday today to screenwriter (The Book of Eli, Undying, After Earth, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Abomination), author (Star Wars: The Last Jedi Adaptation, OLIVER), game designer (Duke Nukem Forever, Prey, Gears of War, The Walking Dead games), video game journalist (PC Gamer, ACE magazine), and (the most important one to us) comic book writer Gary Whitta (Batman: the Fortress, a story in The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular)!


"DC Nation" from DC Comics cover-dated July 2022

Happy birtrhday, Gary!

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Today in Comics History, July 16: Happy birthday, Mattson Tomlin!

Born on this day: Mattson Tomlin: screenwriter, producer, director, and also comic book writer (Batman: The Imposter, A Vicious Circle)!


"DC Nation" from DC Comics cover-dated June 2022

Happy birthday, Son of Matt!

Sunday, January 01, 2023

Today in Comics History, January 1, 2007, 12:00 AM, New Year's Day: Lex Luthor enjoys the traditional thuds and splats ringing in the New Year







from 52 #35 (DC, March 2007); script by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid; breakdowns by Keith Giffen; pencils by Phil Jimenez and Dan Jurgens; inks by Andy Lanning and Norm Rapmund; colors by Hi-Fi; letters by Travis Lanham
(Click middle picture to Lex-er-size)

Oh Luthor, you nut, you crazy goofball! Kickin' off the New Year by slaughtering heroes! Will you ever learn?

Now, you may notice that this issue specifically identifies Week 35 of 52 (35 of 52? That's some weird-ass Borg name, isn't it?) as starting on January 1, 2007. That means we can identifies and pin down the exact date of every scene in 52, and I can now post panels from every single story in every single issue to add to the "Today in Comics History" feature starting now!

But I'm not gonna do that. You may now pause to exhale in relief.

(Maybe next year.)

Happy 2007, everybody!


from "DC Nation" in DC Comics cover-dated March 2007

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Today in Comics History, December 21: Happy birthday, Chip Zdarsky!

BoTD: comics artist, writer, and designer Chip Zdarsky (Howard the Duck, Daredevil, Peter Parker, Batman, Jughead, Sex Criminals and much more)!





variant "How to Draw" covers for Marvel Comics cover-dated December 2017, by Chip Zdarsky




Saturday, September 24, 2022

Today in Comics History, September 24: Happy birthday, Jock!

Born on this day: Eisner Award-winning comics artist Jock, who's worked on 2000 AD, Batman, Detective Comics, All Star Batman, Wolverine MAX, Savage Wolverine, Hellblazer, Green Lantern: Year One, and many more, co-creator of Image's Wytches, the Vertigo series Faker and Vertigo version of The Losers, and dozens of covers for DC and other publishers!


"DC Nation" in DC Comics cover-dated January 2022

Happy birthday, Jock!

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Today in Comics History, September 15: Happy birthday, Chris Wildgoose!

Born on this day: comics artist Chris Wildgoose (Batman: Nightwalker, Batgirl, All-New Firefly, Gotham Academy, Proctor Valley Road, more!)


from DC Comics cover-dated November 2019

Happy birthday, Chris!

Monday, September 05, 2022

Today in Comics History, Labor Day: Even Batman doesn't get the day off, so fight for your workers rights!

Batman, rise up against 1%er Bruce Wayne! Punch 'im in the face!


"DC Nation" from DC Comics cover-dated November 2010

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Today in Comics History, June 30: Happy birthday, Christopher Priest!

Born on this day: comics scipter and editor Christopher Priest or just Priest (aka James Owsley), the first Black writer/editor in mainstream comics! His extensive work includes Conan, Black Panther, Justice League, Steel, Vampirella, Deathstroke, Quantum and Woody, and much more! Priest also co-created Quantum and Woody, Okoye of Wakanda, Everett K. Ross, and others.


from Black Panther (Marvel, 1998 series) #12 (October 1999)





Friday, April 22, 2022

Today in Comics History, April 22: Happy birthday, Bryan Hitch!

Today's bountiful birthday: Bryan Hitch, comics artist and writer! You know his work from the UK's Action Force and Death's Head, Wildstorm's Stormwatch and The Authority, DC Comics's JLA, Justice League, Justice League of America, and Marvel Comics' Sensational She-Hulk, Captain America: Reborn, Age of Ultron, The Ultimates, and more!

No, I don't know why his birthday is listed as June 6, 1966 here.


from Marvel UK comics cover-dated November 1993




Thursday, February 20, 2020

Today in Comics History, February 20: Happy birthday, Dwayne McDuffie!

Born on this day in 1962: Dwayne McDuffie, writer, producer, co-founder of Milestone Comics, co-creator of Damage Control, Static, Icon and Rocket, Hardware, and much more.



from (top) "Bullpen Bulletins" in Marvel Age #60 (Marvel, March 1988);
R: "Bullpen Bulletins" in Marvel Comics cover-dated September 1989