Comics

The TV show Firefly

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On September 20, 2002 the TV show “Firefly” made its debut on Fox. “Firefly” is set in 2517 in a colonized solar system after Earth, overpopulated and exploited to exhaustion, has been abandoned. Planets and moons in the new solar system have been terraformed but with different results. The rich have taken the best planets, where they live in cities where they have the most advanced technologies. Instead, the poor had to go live on moons where conditions are at the limit of habitability and technology is limited so in many ways they look like the old west.

Harry Harrison at Worldcon 2005 in Glasgow

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Science fiction writer Harry Harrison died yesterday. Harry Harrison was born on March 12, 1925 in Stamford, Conncticut. During his long career he wrote famous cycles such as the one of the Stainless Steel Rat, the Deathworld and the Bill, the galactic hero. He also wrote many other novels such as “Make Room! Make Room!”.

Terry Gilliam at 2009 Comic-Con

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Terrence Vance Gilliam was born on November 22, 1940 in Medicine Lake, Minnesota, USA. In 1968 he took British citizenship. In 1996 renounced his American citizenship.
During the ’70s and ’80s Terry Gilliam worked as screenwriter and director for various movies produced with the Monty Python. He directed several more movies.

Charles Schulz in 1956 and a Charlie Brown drawing (Photo Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer)

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60 years ago the first Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz was published and it went on until February 13, 2000, the day after their author’s death.

This famous comic strip was originated by a previous work by Charles Schulz titled Lil’l Folks that was published on the author’s hometown newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, between 1947 and 1950. When the new, more sophisticated, comic strip started being published by United Feature Syndicate the name was changed to Peanuts to avoid confusion with other comic strips that were famous at the time.