Jack Pierce

 Jack Pierce was born on May 5th, 1889 in Greece. 

Jack Pierce (1889-1968)

Known for creating some of the most prolific monster effects of the classic Universal era. 

Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931)

Boris Karloff as The Mummy (1932)

Lon Chaney, Jr. as The Wolf Man (1941)

Bela Lugosi in Son of Frankenstein (1939)

R. Crumb

 

Robert Crumb was born on August 30th, 1943. 

R. Crumb’s front cover of Big Brother & the Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills Gatefold. 

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