Curated category
Inkpot Award winners
- Steven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg was born on the 18th of December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother Leah Adler ran a kosher dairy restaurant and played concert…
- George LucasGeorge Walton Lucas Jr. was born on the 14th of May 1944 in Modesto, California. He grew up as the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas and George Walton Lucas Sr.
- Kevin SmithKevin Patrick Smith was born on the 2nd of August 1970, in Red Bank, New Jersey. He grew up in the nearby clamming town of Highlands as the son of Grace and…
- Hayao MiyazakiOn the 5th of January 1941, Hayao Miyazaki was born in the town of Akebono-cho within Tokyo City. His father Katsuji Miyazaki directed a company that…
- Dr. SeussTheodor Seuss Geisel arrived in Springfield, Massachusetts on the 2nd of March 1904. His father managed a family brewery that closed during Prohibition…
- Jim HensonJames Maury Henson was born on the 24th of September 1936, in Greenville, Mississippi. He grew up as the younger of two children to Betty Marcella and Paul…
- Vernor VingeVernor Steffen Vinge published his first short story, "Apartness", in the June 1965 issue of the British magazine New Worlds. He had just received his B.S.
- Neil GaimanNeil Richard Gaiman was born on the 10th of November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire. His family background traces to Polish-Jewish and other Ashkenazi…
- Kevin FeigeKevin Feige was born on the 2nd of June 1973 in Boston, Massachusetts. He moved to Westfield, New Jersey at the age of three and lived there until he…
- Ralph BakshiRalph Bakshi was born on the 29th of October 1938, in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine. His family moved to the United States in 1939 and settled in the…
- Francis Ford CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola was born on the 7th of April 1939 in Detroit, Michigan. His father Carmine worked as a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra…
- Poul AndersonPoul William Anderson arrived in the world on the 25th of November 1926. He was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania to parents who had emigrated from Denmark.
- Stan LeeStanley Martin Lieber entered the world on the 28th of December 1922. He was born in a Manhattan apartment at the corner of West 98th Street and West End…
- Edgar Rice BurroughsEdgar Rice Burroughs was born on the 1st of September 1875, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the fourth son of Major George Tyler Burroughs and his wife Mary…
- John LasseterJohn Alan Lasseter was born on the 12th of January 1957 in Hollywood, California. His mother Jewell Mae Risley taught art at Bell Gardens High School while…
- Larry LieberLawrence D. Lieber arrived in Manhattan on the 26th of October 1931 to parents Celia and Jack Lieber, Romanian-Jewish immigrants who had built a life in New…
- Jack KirbyJacob Kurtzberg arrived at 147 Essex Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on the 28th of August 1917. His parents Rose and Benjamin were…
- Steve DitkoStephen John Ditko was born on the 2nd of November 1927 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His parents were second-generation Americans descended from Rusyn…
- Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born on the 30th of July 1947, in the small village of Thal, Styria. His father Gustav served as the local police chief and…
- Howard KazanjianHoward Kazanjian entered the world on the 26th of July 1942 in Los Angeles County. His father hailed from Tigranakert while his mother was born in Pasadena.
- George R. R. MartinGeorge Raymond Martin was born on the 20th of September 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father worked as a longshoreman while his mother's family had once…
- Joe ShusterJoseph Shuster was born on the 10th of July 1914 in Toronto, Ontario. His father Julius ran a tailor shop in the city's garment district while his mother Ida…
- Osamu TezukaToyona, Osaka, 1928. A young boy named Osamu Tezuka sat in a darkened theater watching Disney films over and over again.
- Roger ZelaznyRoger Joseph Zelazny was born in Euclid, Ohio on the 13th of May 1937. He grew up as the only child of a Polish immigrant father and an Irish-American mother.
- David BrinGlen David Brin was born on the 6th of October 1950 in Glendale, California. His parents were Selma and Herb Brin, who raised him as a Jewish child.
- Mark HamillMark Richard Hamill entered the world on the 25th of September 1951 in Oakland, California. His father William Thomas Hamill served as a U.S.
- Brian Michael BendisBrian Michael Bendis was born on the 18th of August 1967 in Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up in University Heights within a Jewish-American family.
- Yoshitaka AmanoYoshitaka Amano was born in 1952 within the city of Shizuoka, Japan. He grew up as the youngest child among four siblings.
- Donald F. GlutDonald Frank Glut began making films in 1953 at the age of nine. He continued this hobby until 1969, creating a total of 41 amateur movies during that span.
- Jim ShooterJim Shooter was born on the 27th of September 1951, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up with parents Ken and Eleanor Shooter who were of Polish descent.
- Byron PreissByron Preiss was born on the 11th of April 1953 in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in a city that would shape his early creative instincts before he ever held…