Born on this day in 1966: singer/songwriter Rick Astley ("Never Gonna Give You Up," "Together Forever," "Whenever ...

Born on this day in 1914: Beat writer and artist William S. Burroughs ( Junkie, Queer, Naked Lunch (I can think of two things wrong with t...

Born on this day: comics writer Corinna Bechko ( Star Wars: Legacy, Angel Season 11, Invisible Republic, Heathentown, Planet of the Apes: ...

Born on this day in 1915, prolific English actor, comedian, musician and singer Norman Wisdom (On the Beat, A Stitch in Time, What's Go...

Born on this day in 1895: stage and screen actor Nigel Bruce of The Scarlet Pimpernel, She, Under Two Flags, Kidnapped, Lassie Come Home, T...

from "Dig the Plant, Man!" in Secrets of Haunted House #43 (DC, December 1981), plot and pencils by Rodin Rodriguez, script by...

from "Puzzle of the Wild World!" in Action Comics #388 (DC/National, May 1970), script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, in...

from Clobberin' Time #3 (Marvel, July 2023), story and art by Steve Skroce, colors by Bryan Calenza, letters by Joe Sabino

My fifteenth book read of the year: The Naked Clone: A Nick Nolte Mystery , by Conor Lastowka, Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett...

Geez, Margaret, it's the thought that counts! Maybe this 1968 calendar that you can actually use this entire frosty month of 2024 will...

It's the first day of the month and you need a February 2024 calendar to pin up on your walls next to the Farrah Fawcett-Majors poster a...

This is an expanded and updated version of a post originally published January 31, 2022. Images from Football Thrills #2 and True Sport Pict...

Born on this day in 1920: comics artist (primarily for the M.L.J./Archie comics lines) Bill Vigoda ( Hangman Comics, Black Hood Comics, Lau...

Born on this day: singer/musician Yumi Yoshimura , one-half of the band Puffy [AmiYumi]. She and partner Ami Onuki had their own (heavily fi...

Born on this day: Millie "The Model" Collins's cousin Phil Collins* ! from "When Friends Fall Out!" in Millie t...

Happy birthday today to James Watt (born 1736), inventor, chemist, and mechanical engineer (and not Reagan's Secretary of the Interior...

Born on this day: comics artist, television producer, and one of the founders of Milestone Media: Denys Cowan ( The Question, Hardware, Dea...

from The Beatles in Comics! (NBM, November 2018); script by Richard Di Martino; translation by Joe Johnson; pencils, inks, and colors by...

Born today in comics and television (and a few not-that-bad movies) history: Tom Selleck ! Yes, yes, I know: we've already celebrated To...

This is an expanded and updated version of a post originally published February 13, 2006. Born on this day: actor Tom Selleck from Magnu...