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Updates To The Site! (Early 2024)

We deployed a different handling of characters from DC and Marvel in recent weeks. We now can record the universe from which a character originates. In the editing workflow this replaces the different character versions.

Examples of characters with different universes are:

Additionally one now can add the DC and Marvel in which a story takes place. One then can also see in which universe a character appeared in, or which stories take place in a given universe.

Examples are:

Note that the most stories and characters are in the so-called mainstream universe. We do not want to track continuity, the mainstream universe is the at the time of publication standard universe for DC or Marvel, no matter the specific naming or continuity setup. In particular, no retroactive changes to the universe. Essentially, we want to be able to track stories and characters in DC or Marvel universes that are different from the standard universe. In other words, the mainstream universe is the default universe, unless a different universe is specified in the story or for the character.

We also added lists for characters, group and universes.

For publishers we added a list of creators that were published by it, e.g. for Norwegian publisher Hjemmet / Egmont.

That is in addition to all the other lists we added in the last year, where for navigation one often can further filter by country, language or publisher.

For all of these lists of course even more of our data needs to be migrated from text entries to linked records, or even entered at all. So, if you ever wondered about helping with the content of the database ?


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.

GCD Comics Timeline


Christina Alvner (b. 1954)

1954 April 2
Swedish illustrator, author, and comics creator.

Max Ernst (b. 1891)

1891 April 2 - 1976 April 1
Max Ernst was born in the German Empire and was later naturalized American in 1948 and French in 1958. He was a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, poet, and a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism. He was also noted for his novels consisting of collages.

Joan Maurer (b. 1927)

1927 April 2 - 2021 September 21
Daughter of Moe Howard of the Three Stooges.

Émile Zola (b. 1840)

1840 April 2 - 1902 September 29
French journalist and novelist.

えすとえむ (b. 1981)

1981 April 2
Est em (えすとえむ) is a manga artist who made her debut in 2006. Among her works are Tableau Numero 20 (作品ナンバー20), ULTRAS, Seduce Me After the Show (ショーが跳ねたら逢いましょう), IPPO, Equus (エクウス), Working Kentauros! (はたらけ、ケンタウロス!), Kusharu (クシュラル), Golondrina (ゴロンドリーナ), Age Called Blue (エイジ・コールド・ブルー), Kinein! (キネイン!) and Red Blinds the Foolish (愚か者は赤を嫌う).

アントンシク (b. ????)

????? April 2
︎Ahndongshik (アントンシク) is a manga artist whose debut was in 2006. Known for Appare-Ranman! (天晴爛漫!), Renjou Desperado (恋情デスペラード), Lindbergh (リンドバーグ) and Gagoze (ガゴゼ).

鰍ヨウ (b. ????)

????? April 2
You Kajika (鰍ヨウ) is a manga artist known for Ō to Neko no Hihō (王と猫の秘宝 / The Treasure of the King and the Cat), Fureru Shunkan no (触れる瞬間の), Koukyuu no Musubibito (後宮の結び人), Everyday Magic -Amai Mizu (エブリデイ・マジック ―あまいみず―) and Kimi to Te Wo Tsunaide (きみと手をつないで / With You Hand in Hand).

Jesse Crumb (b. 1968)

1968 April 1 - 2018 January 3
Son of Robert Crumb and Dana Morgan Crumb, Jesse was not a comic book creator, but did have a successful career in fine art. He is probably best known for his series of portraits of Beat Generation poets, done in the 1990s. Died as a result of an automobile accident.

Bill Oakley (b. 1964)

1964 April 1 - 2004 February 16
Bill Oakley worked in support as a letterer for several companies from 1985 until his death in 2004 and continually reprinted thereafter.

和泉かねよし (b. ????)

????? April 1
Kaneyoshi Izumi (和泉かねよし) is a manga artist who debuted in 1995. Known for the manga series Doubt!! (ダウト!!), Sonnan ja nē yo (そんなんじゃねえよ), Joō no Hana (女王の花), Seiho Boys' High School (メンズ校), Ni no Hime no Monogatari (二の姫の物語), Te no Hira wo Taiyou ni (手のひらを太陽に) and Himitsu no Hanazono (秘密の花園).

How to Help

There are several ways in which you can help us to improve our site and its content.

  • You can provide missing data, update existing data, or upload cover scans. Just register an account with us, and you can start contributing.
  • Donate for our ongoing costs, e.g. the server infrastructure. We are a non-profit organization and any funds will be used for our goal of documenting and indexing all comics.
  • We need volunteer web designers and programmers! Please contact the gcd-tech group or visit our technical documentation if you can help with any of these roles:
    • Web designer / front-end developer (HTML / CSS / JavaScript)
    • Python / Django programming
    • ElasticSearch search server
    • Web Services API
    • Database Performance (MySQL)
Disclaimer
The Grand Comics Database Project (GCD) is a volunteer project with the goal of documenting and indexing all comics for the free use of scholars, historians, researchers, and fans.
The GCD acknowledges that the all-encompassing research nature of the project may result in the posting of cover scans for comics with images that some may find objectionable.
Viewer discretion is advised.
The Grand Comics Database Team
Statistics
16,275 publishers
73,306 creators
201,350 series
2,041,461 issues
190,073 variant issues
448,292 issue indexes
1,207,773 covers
3,891,086 stories