Sterling Holloway. What a voice! He was a good supporting actor in 2 Barbara Stanwyck films, as Willie in Remember The Night and Dan in Meet John Doe. He did great voice work for Disney, especially as the Cheshire Cat in Alice In Wonderland and Kaa the Snake in Jungle Book

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Celebrating that little round headed kid Charles M. Schulz, creator of the greatest comic strip of them all.

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Some beautiful studies by the great Terry Austin, for his birthday.

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Happy Birthday to mighty Mike Ploog. True story: When I first saw Will Eisner's work as a kid, my first reaction was: 'He's just a Mike Ploog copyist!' 😬

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The great Ernie Colon, who could do every genre, brilliantly.

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I. A. L. Diamond, a talented writer. In 1959 he collaborated with Billy Wilder on Some Like It Hot. They became writing partners on classics like The Apartment, the hilarious Cold War comedy One Two Three, and the cult favorite The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes.

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Happy birthday to Elfquest creator & everyone's favourite '70's Red Sonja cosplayer, the wondrous Wendy Pini

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BOTD: Happy Birthday to Lotte Reiniger, the wonderful pioneering animator! She was the inspiration behind The Paper Princess✂️🌟

Both and I were hugely infuenced by Lotte, separately and then together in the making of our picturebook

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Remembering THE Hulk artist, Herb Trimpe. But my favourite work of his is the superb Skywarriors where, unleashed from the Marvel style, he showed what he could REALLY do.

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Happy birthday to the amazing , one of the most positive creators on here, not to mention his sterling work on The Unseen Jack Katz and the upcoming Starhenge, which is clearly that issue of Marvel Preview we all missed back in the day 🍻🥂

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The great Irv Novick, who never gets any love but really was one of the top Batman artists, and will always be 'my' Flash artist. Plus he looks like he could take any three of us in a fight.

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Happy 101st! birthday to the amazing Al Jaffee, the world's longest working cartoonist, who only retired from Mad magazine at the age of 99! Many happy returns Al!

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Happy 86th birthday to Our Pal Sal Buscema, who's drawn EVERYTHING, brilliantly. Here's a couple of my Bronze Age faves:

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Happy 74th birthday to the great Joe Staton. One of those artists we maybe take for granted a little bit, but like Nick Cardy, his work is full of fun & joy and always makes me smile.

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Here's a Hunger piece I did in school, and a Man Who Fell To Earth piece I did a couple of years ago. I may be a fan.

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And as it's Michael Moorcock's birthday, it seems only fair to post this piece did of me as Elric when we were at college. Isn't it great?

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Remembering the wonderful Kurt Schaffenberger, who looked exactly like a Kurt Schaffenberger drawing and had a line so slick it was practically made of oil. Here's a nice anecdote from Mark Evanier.

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The magnificent Dan Spiegle. If you ever see any copies of his & Mark Evanier's Hollywood hero Crossfire, grab 'em. It's one of the great lost series.

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Remembering Leonard Starr. creator of the great newspaper strip Mary Perkins On Stage, and co-creator of the wonderful graphic novel series Kelly Green. A true artist's artist & storyteller. Everyone should own these books.

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Happy Birthday to Judo Jim Starlin who, because he's cosmically aware, can see this even though he's not on twitter.

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