Whozit - ConEd

So... Apparently it's Friday. 

Time and i have been rather estranged of late, even more-so than our typical relations. But a lovely lady's birthday coming up tomorrow finally made me aware of today, and so it's time for

Let's go behind the scenes of comics today, and see how well you can spot the pros.
Not today's comic pros - they post their faces online all the time, even when nobody wants to see them. So let's make it trickier and jump back a bit over 40 years. These pictures were taken at one of Phil Seuling's early New York Comic Art Conventions, one of the only places fans could go to see the people who created comics way back in the when.

We've got 15 for you to identify, if you can. Here's our first 10 -

And now, we get a little trickier for the bonus round -

Don't worry. Now that i know today is Friday, i can do the math and figure out when the solution is due.

Un-Puzzling

Oh, dear. It's another of those dreadful teaser posts, in which we find vague or overly dramatic references to an upcoming topic. I suppose the real mystery here is why i keep doing that.
But we'll just pretend that our puzzle today is a simple matter of identity.

Do you know this man?

Perhaps this might help?

However, i suspect that many readers of Cyrillic lettering can likely ID this individual without the text help, even if this image will be 40 years old next year.