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Volunteers Wanted For Adding New Comics

Each week, a small number of GCD volunteers add listings to our database for the new comics released that week in North America. These are just the basic listings, not full indexes. This makes it easier for other volunteers who upload covers and for indexers, as well as for people using my.comics.org.

Each volunteer covers one publisher or a small group of publishers ("D publishers except DC", for example). From public sources such as ComicsList and Diamond Previews online, they add the issues and make note of the prices and a few other details. We are looking for additional volunteers for this weekly task.

Follow this link for a description of the process and a list of which publishers are currently covered.

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GCD Comics Timeline

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Peggy Bacon (b. 1895)

1895 May 2 - 1987 January 4
Created few cartoons and was better known for her caricatures, especially after a collection, "Off with Their Heads!", was published. Taught at the Art Students League, Moore College of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery School of Art.

Herman R. Bollin (b. 1902)

1902 May 2 - 1967 November 5
Herman R. Bollin worked in support as an art director for Ziff-Davis Publishing Company from circa 1938 to 1952. Bollin did painted covers for Ziff-Davis' aviation magazines during the 1930s.

Jared Gardner (b. 1966)

1966 May 2
Professor of English at Ohio State University focusing on American literature, comics, film and popular culture. Writer of the books "Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845," "Projections: Comics and the History of 21st-century Storytelling" and "The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture."

Seena Sand (b. 1924)

1924 May 2 - 2020 April 16
Seena took the position of art director for Marvel's Miss America magazine for four consecutive issues across two volumes (the final two of its fourth volume and the first two of its fifth) in the mid 1940s, being preceded and succeeded in the role by Melvin Blum. She appears to have contributed illustrations for text features in at least three of those issues, signing her work “S.” and “S.S.T.”

Seena would go on to have a long career as an artist, primarily as a sculptor. She has pieces in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Helen Schmid (b. 1921)

1921 May 2 - 2002 May 22
Helen Schmid did comics support work for Novelty Press, as an editorial assistant from 1945 to 1947 and as an associate editor from 1946 to 1947.

Schmid also worked as a writer for Quality at some point during the 1940s, on Doll Man, Plastic Man, and Torchy. Specific work not known.

Additional biographical information found in:
Women and the Comics (Eclipse Books, 1985) by Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode.

大川七瀬 (b. 1967)

1967 May 2
A member of the Japanese manga artist group Clamp. Went by Ageha Ohkawa [大川緋芭] from 2004 to 2008.

戸塚慶文 (b. 1989)

1989 May 2
Yoshifumi Tozuka (戸塚慶文) is the creator of the manga series Undead Unluck (アンデッドアンラック).

顎木あくみ (b. ????)

????? May 2
Akumi Agitogi (顎木あくみ) is a light novel author and writer of Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon (わたしの幸せな結婚) which is receiving a manga adaptation.

Marco M. Lupoi (b. 1965)

1965 May 1
Publishing Director, Panini SpA, 1994 - Present
Editorial director, Marvel Comics Italia SrL, 1993 - 1994
Editor in chief, Edizioni Star Comics Srl, 1987 - 1993

Radoslav Rochallyi (b. 1980)

1980 May 1
Rochallyi was born in Bardejov, located in the Prešov region of what is today the Slovak Republic. The author finished his studies in Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov (1999–2005) and completed postgraduate PhD studies in pedagogy at the Faculty of Education of the University of Prešov (2005–2009). He worked as a teacher at the Pedagogical Faculty of Prešov University in Prešov. He is a member of Mensa and member of Association of Slovak Writers.