?Look at me, I'm a L.S.B.?...and I'm here to wish a very happy birthday to Miss Sandra Dee, born on this day in 1942! You may remember Sandra from such fine movies as The Reluctant Debutante, A Stranger in My Arms, Gidget, That Funny Feeling, The Daughters of Joshua Cabe, and of course that "Tammy" movie that didn't star Debbie Reynolds or Beulah Bondi: 1961's Tammy Tell Me True, which was adapted into an ish of Dell's perpetual Four Color series. cover and inside front cover of Four Color #1233 [Tammy Tell Me True] (Dell, September 1961) More or less the plot: Tammy's a swamp girl NO ..read more

Born on this day: film director, producer, screenwriter and author Michael Moore of fame for Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and let us not forget, Canadian Bacon (and more). Moore's movies have attracted controversial attention for his extreme liberal views and weighting his narrative through editing, which makes him a perfect character to appear in recent-years' issues of MAD magazine: from "Idiotic Anti-Gun Control Arguments The NRA Hasn't Used - Yet!" in MAD #483 (November 2007), script by Jacob Lambert, pencils and inks by Peter Kuper from "Why George W. Bu ..read more

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 ..read more

from Last Days of the Justice Society Special #1 one-shot (DC, July 1986), co-plot and script by Roy Thomas, co-plot by Dann Thomas, pencils by David Ross, inks by Mike Gustovich, colors by Carl Gafford, letters by David Cody Weiss ..read more

Born on this day in 1791: the 15th President of the United States James Buchanan, who, let's face it, wasn't all that great. More to the point, it's nigh-impossible to find actual references to him in comic books because search results are clogged up by you know who. But I did find a couple comic appearances. Hey, comic books: can you sum up the entirely of his career in two pages? You bet they can!: from Life Stories of American Presidents one-shot (Dell, November 1957), pencils and inks by John Buscema, letters by Ben Oda Following his death, General Córdova was pressed flat and turned in ..read more

from Larry Doby, Baseball Hero one-shot (Fawcett, 1950), script by Charles Dexter ..read more

Born on this day in 1909: actor Ralph Byrd, who appeared in dozens of movies and film serials across two decades, including The Trigger Trio, S.O.S. Tidal Wave, The Howards of Virginia, The Mark of Zorro, North West Mounted Police, The Son of Monte Cristo, Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, Radar Secret Service, Jungle Goddess (those last two riffed on TV's Mystery Science Theater 3000), and lots more, but he's especially know as Chester Gould's square-jawed detective Dick Tracy in four serials. When the role was recast at RKO in 1945 with Morgan Conway, movie exhbitors protested and Byrd returned ..read more

Please wish a happy bithday to porcupine impersonator and true inventor of the grunge look, Mutator! from D.P. 7 #26 (Marvel/New Universe, December 1988), pencils by Paul Ryan ..read more

from The Multiversity: Mastermen #1 one-shot (DC, April 2015); script by Grant Morrison; pencils by Jim Lee; inks by Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Mark Irwin, and Jonathan Glapion; colors by Alex Sinclair and Jeromy Cox; letters by Rob Leigh ..read more

(This is actually from a couple months ago on February 14, but I forgot to give it a proper number until now, so it goes in here! Gee, that's convenient.) As seen in The Sun newspaper! So that's the sole decent thing worth reading in The Sun. I was initially annoyed that there were no creator credits in the front of the book, and the strips themselves are credited as "by Aardman and Titan Comics"... ...but there were group credits at the very back of the book, at least. Mostly anonymous comic strip creators, we salute you ..read more