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Led Zeppelin
Immensely successful UK rock band formed in London in 1968 by vocalist Robert Plant (1948- ), guitarist Jimmy Page (1944- ), bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones (real name John Baldwin, 1946- ) and drummer John Bonham (1948-1980), active until Bonham's death. The notoriety around their offstage behaviour no doubt contributed to their success as much as their exceptionally physical mix of hard rock, blues and folk. Page's ...
Superjail
US animated tv series (2007-2014). Augenblick Studios, Titmouse, Inc. and Williams Street. Created by Christy Karacas, Stephen Warbrick and Ben Gruber. Directed by Christy Karacas. Writers include Aaron Augenblick, Chris Burns, Christy Karacas, Adam Modiano, Stephen Warbrick and Michael M Wartella. Voice cast includes Teddy Cohn, Sally Donovan, Christy Karacas, Richard Mather, Chris McCulloch and David Wain. 37 (including Pilot) 11-minute episodes. Colour. / Superjail (see ...
Toth, Alex
(1928-2006) Highly regarded US Comics artist active from the 1940s until his death. He studied Illustration at the New York School of Industrial Art (now the High School of Art and Design) and drew the Superhero character Green Lantern for DC Comics as early as 1947, moving on to work on The Flash, The Atom and others. Later he ...
Aandahl, Vance
(1942- ) US teacher and author who began to publish short stories with "It's a Great Big Wonderful Universe" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for November 1960, and who remained active as an author of short fiction until the mid-1990s, publishing at least 30 tales over that period, most of them for F&SF. His work is noted for its wry ingenuity, and several stories have been anthologized. No ...
Day, Bradford M
(1916-2004) US sf collector and book-dealer whose bibliographical work was one of the foundations on which modern sf scholarship has been built (see Bibliographies). A Checklist of Fantastic Magazines Checklist of Science-Fiction Magazines (1952 chap; exp vt The Complete Checklist of Science-Fiction Magazines 1961; further exp vt The Checklist of Science-Fiction and Fantasy Magazines 1892-1992 1994) defines sf widely ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...