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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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Peter Fitzgerald (b. 1968)

1968 May 17
Fan and trade zines:
Amazing Heroes Swimsuit Special (Fantagraphics, 1990 series) #1, (1990) (pencils and inks).
San Diego Comic-Con Program (Comic Con International, 1975 series), 1991 (pencils and inks).

Poster:
Cracked Blockbuster (Major Magazines, 1987 series) #4 (Summer 1990) (pencils and inks).

Trading Cards:
Cracked ? (Major Magazines ?) 1992.

Steve Geiger (b. 1962)

1962 May 17
Steve Geiger is a comic book artist who primarily worked at Marvel, from 1984 to 1991, 1993 to 1996, 2000 and 2002. He also worked for Acclaim / Valiant, from 1997 to 1998; DC in 1987; Penthouse, in 1995; Newsday, Inc., in 1998; Starwarp Concepts, in 1991; and Continuity, in 1989.

Roy Nelson (b. 1905)

1905 May 17 - 1956 September 14
Roy Nelson was an American cartoonist and caricaturist. He worked primarily for the Chicago Daily News from the mid-1920s through the late '40s, except for a brief stint in the early '30s, when he worked for the Disney Studio doing publicity artwork and helping with the Mickey Mouse comic strip, and a few years in the Army during World War 2.

Additionally, he regularly contributed cartoons to publications such as Esquire, The Sporting News, and Hearst newspapers.

In 1951 he created a daily strip named "Mot, Dot, and Tot".

He was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1953 and passed away in 1956.

Marco Steiner (b. 1956)

1956 May 17
Italian writer. Collaborated with Hugo Pratt between 1989 and 1995. Worked together with the photographer Marco D'Anna to produce prefaces for fourteen Corto Maltese albums.

F. Paul Wilson (b. 1946)

1946 May 17
F. Paul Wilson is known as a writer of Science Fiction and Horror books. He has won the Prometheus Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Inkpot Award from the San Diego ComiCon, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers of America.

Sophie Yanow (b. 1987)

1987 May 17
Lesbian, autobiographical cartoonist who also teaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont.

カラー (b. 2006)

2006 May 17
Japanese animation studio and production company founded by Hideaki Anno following his departure from Gainax. Best known for their work on the Rebuild of Evangelion series of animated films released 2007-2021.

Hannes Hegen (b. 1925)

1925 May 16 - 2014 November 8
Hannes Hegen was a German illustrator and caricaturist and is most famous for creating the East German comic book Mosaik and its original protagonists, the Digedags.

His own creation Mosaik was first published in December 1955. Hegen was solely responsible for only the first issues of the book. Later a team of artists and writers worked on the book, but only Hegen was credited on the cover. 223 issues were produced. Hegen worked on Mosaik until 1975, when he had a disagreement with the publisher and quit working, taking the rights to the Digedags characters with him. The Mosaik team continued without him and created new characters to appear in Mosaik.

Jenette Kahn (b. 1947)

1947 May 16
Jenette Kahn is an American comic book editor and executive. In the 1970s, she edited and founded a number of children's magazines. It started in 1970 as Kahn was one of the founding editors for Kids (Childpub Management Corporation). Later she founded the very successful Dynamite (Scholastic) in 1974. Lastly, in 1975, Kahn found Smash for Xerox Education Publications (later known as Weekly Reader Publishing).

In 1976, she joined DC as publisher and was promoted to President five years later.

In 1989, she assumed, while retaining the office of president, the title of editor-in-chief, after stepping down as publisher. In 2002, after 26 years with DC, she left the company to pursue a career as a film producer.

Additional biographical details can be found in:
the DC Profiles column in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #304 (October 1978);
The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series) #37 (December 1977) and #47 (July 1979);
"Wonder Woman at DC Comics: Janette Kahn, Turning Superheroes into Supersales", The New York Times by Philip S. Gutis, Sunday, January 6, 1985, page 6 F (section 3, page 6, overall page 243);
and Women and the Comics (Eclipse) 1985.

エルド吉水 (b. 1965)

1965 May 16
Eldo Yoshimizu is a Japanese fine artist, sculptor, photographer, musician and manga creator.

His first manga work, Ryuko, was been published in France, Italy, Germany, the US and the UK. His second work, Gamma Draconis, with script by French author Benoist Simmat, was published in French by Lezard Noir and will be published in English by Titan Books.

He is greatly influenced by Japanese films of the 1960s, the Film Noir of French Cinema and British punk band The Clash, naming Joe Strummer as one of his heroes.