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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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Ludwig Bemelmans (b. 1898)

1898 April 27 - 1962 October 1
Ludwig Bemelmans was a writer and illustrator primarily known for his series of Madeline children's books. Bemelmans began his career as a painter and artist and eventually became a cartoonist, starting with the New York World in 1926.

He created, wrote, and drew the comic, The Thrilling Adventures of the Count Bric a Brac for the New York World's magazine, The World Magazine, in 1926, though it last just six months. By the 1930s, Bemelmans was doing cartoons and illustrations for print advertisements and for magazines like Judge (Judge, 1881 series).

His first children's book was Hansi (Viking Press, 1934) and the first Madeline book in 1939 by Simon & Schuster. Bemelmans would go on to create and have published a further five Madeline books and another posthumously.

He is known for having written and illustrated a text feature for Dell, credited in 1947. Bails' Who's Who records that he also wrote and drew various features for Dell in 1944.

Bemelmans wrote and illustrated several books, wrote movie scripts, and painted murals.

Steve Ricketts (b. 1968)

1968 April 27
Steve Ricketts is the founder of Imagination Inx and the creator of the comic title, "Ripped."

Alan Rose (b. 1948)

1948 April 27 - 2015 July 7
Rose's early years were spent in Germany, Japan, Colorado, and Mississippi. His family moved to Baltimore when he was a teenager. After attending the Maryland Institute of Art, Rose worked as a graphic designer for the underground newspaper Harry and on John Waters' films. He moved to New York and from 1974 to 1988 worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for National Lampoon magazine. Rose earned acclaim with his World at Your Feet books. He married Anne (Spaulding) Rose in 1981 and moved to Springfield, Massachusetts. He died from lung cancer.

Ryan Woodward (b. 1972)

1972 April 27
Ryan Woodward began his career in 1995 as an efx animator on the films Space Jam, Quest for Camelot, The Iron Giant and Osmosis Jones for Warner Bro’s Animation. In 2002 he transitioned his career to storyboards and contributed to the films, Spider-Man 2 and 3, Cowboys and Aliens, Where the Wild things Are, Iron Man 2, Snow White and the Hunstman, Thor 2, Captain America 2 and The Avengers. From 2002 to 2004, he had his own comic publishing company Summertime Books and Comics.

下口智裕 (b. 1978)

1978 April 27
Tomohiro Shimoguchi (下口智裕) is a manga artist known for his collaborations with Eiichi Shimizu (清水栄一) on Ultraman, Getter Robo Devolution and other manga series.

Ed Fedory (b. 1949)

1949 April 26 - 2018 November 5
Fedory wrote horror and fantasy stories for Skywald (1971-1975), Warren (1972-1973), Seaboard (1975) and DC (1977).

He was a passionate relic hunter and amateur historian. He wrote over 60 articles about searching for relics with metal detectors for Western and Eastern Treasures in his monthly column 'The Relic Hunter' (http://archive.wetreasures.com/). He wrote 'Relic Hunter the Book' and 'The World of the Relic Hunter' (Whites Electronics).

He was a Science teacher for 32 years at Coxsackie Elementary School, before retiring and continuing to run his hobby farm.

Marty Greim (b. 1942)

1942 April 26 - 2017 April 15
Marty Greim did support work in production for Marvel during 1973.

Michael Kupperman (b. 1966)

1966 April 26
Michael Kupperman is an American cartoonist and illustrator. He created the comic strips Up All Night and Found in the Street, and has written scripts for DC Comics. His work often dwells in surrealism and absurdity "played as seriously as possible."

His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, LA Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Screw, Fortune, The Independent on Sunday, Libération, Nickelodeon Magazine, The Believer, and Heavy Metal, as well as in comics anthologies such as Hotwire, Snake Eyes, Zero Zero, Hyena, Hodags and Hodaddies, Blood Orange, Rosetta, 106U, and Legal Action Comics. He has also worked on many books and projects for McSweeney's.

Hjalmar Sandøy (b. 1948)

1948 April 26
Utdannet reklametegner. Har bodd i København siden 1968 (fra Konk #3/1979).

ベニガシラ (b. ????)

????? April 26
Benigashira (ベニガシラ) is a manga artist whose work has been published in Ichijinsha's Comic REX magazine. Writer/artist on the series Bishoujo Doujin Sakka to Wakagashira (美少女同人作家と若頭) and writer on Salaryman ga Isekai ni Ittara Shitennou ni Natta Hanashi (サラリーマンが異世界に行ったら四天王になった話 / Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four!).