A number of comic book websites were wishing a happy 86th birthday yesterday to John Severin, the great comic book artist. And they were right to want to salute this veteran illustrator, whose career highlights have included drawing for EC Comics, including the first few issues of MAD; a long stint as the star artist for Cracked, plus hundreds and hundreds of magnificent war and western comics for DC, Marvel and several other publishers. He's currently drawing a Bat Lash mini-series for DC and showing the world that he's still got it, still doing superior work.
So they were all right to want to salute him on his birthday but they were a little early. I don't care what Wikipedia says, guys. John Severin's birthday is the day after Christmas, December 26.