The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is a nonprofit, internet-based organization of international volunteers dedicated to building an open database covering all printed comics throughout the world. Give our search a try, take a look at the menu to the left to see how you can help us improve the site, or use my.comics.org to track and manage your comic collection.

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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Ken Avidor (b. 1955)

1955 May 25
Cartoonist/artist formerly known as Ken Weiner whose work saw print in Screw magazine, Weirdo, Comical Funnies, Punk and Stop!. Alongside Peter Bagge he published "The Wacky World of Ken Weiner and Peter Bagge" in 1982. After moving to Minneapolis in 1986 he changed his name to Ken Avidor. Among the work he's known for since then include the Roadkill Bill strip and the graphic novel series Bicyclopolis.

Clay Geerdes (b. 1934)

1934 May 25 - 1997 July 8
Involved in the Underground and Independent comic scenes. Created the Comix World and Comix Wave newsletters. Writer/artist on mini comics in the late 1970s to the 1980s. Died from liver cancer.

Lucho Olivera (b. 1942)

1942 May 25 - 2005 November 11
Lucho Olivera learned painting and drawing from Rubén Vispo. He moved to Buenos Aires at age 20 and began his career drawing for Vea y Lea and Leoplán. He also enrolled at the Pan-American School of Art, while making cover illustrations for Hora Cero and Frontera. In 1964, he commenced his career as a full time comics artist by contributing to Misterix and to the publishing house Columba. He was the first artist to draw the 'Nippur de Lagash' series, written by Robin Wood, that appeared in D'Artagnan magazine from 1967. Other notable creations were 'Gilgamesh' (1970) and 'Gunner' ('Dico, o Artilheiro'). He also created 'Galaxia Cero', 'Yo Ciborg', 'Ronar' and 'Planeta Rojo'. In the 1990s he drew a newspaper comic strip called 'Pepe Moreno'.

Stéphane Paitreau (b. 1970)

1970 May 25
Colorist

Stan Sakai (b. 1953)

1953 May 25
Born in Japan, raised in Hawaii and later settled on the continental USA.

Carl E. Schultze (b. 1866)

1866 May 25 - 1939 January 18
Schultze was an American newspaper cartoonist best known for his popular Foxy Grandpa comic strip series. He drew the strip under the pseudonym Bunny, his childhood nickname. The Bunny signature was usually accompanied by a drawing of a rabbit.

His Foxy Grandpa comic strip was first published in January 1900 in the New York Herald, moving to the New York American in 1902. By 1913, Schultze was president of the Bunny Amusement Corporation of New York. The strip disappeared as a regular feature in 1918.

Personal problems and debts plagued Schultze through the 1920s. He resurfaced in 1935, illustrating school books, including the popular Julia and the Bear. During the 1930s, he was a Works Progress Administration worker. He died of a heart attack in 1939.

Carl Wessler (b. 1913)

1913 May 25 - 1989 April 9
Additional biography found at:
Squa Tront (John Benson, 1977 Series) #9 (1983).

Wessler did gag cartoons circa 1932 for the Calgary Eye-Opener [magazine] (Bob Edwards Publishing Corporation, 1902? series).

ヨシノサツキ (b. 1985)

1985 May 25
Satsuki Yoshino (ヨシノサツキ) is a manga artist and illustrator best known for the series Barakamon (ばらかもん).

池山田剛 (b. ????)

????? May 25
Go Ikeyamada (池山田剛) is a manga artist whose debut was in 2002. Among her works are So Cute it Hurts!! (小林が可愛すぎてツライっ!!), Uwasa no Midori-kun!! (うわさの翠くん!!), Suki Desu Suzuki-kun!! (好きです鈴木くん!!) and others.

Michael Chabon (b. 1963)

1963 May 24
Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist and short story writer who has worked on a number of comics and genres related projects.