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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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W. W. Denslow (b. 1856)

1856 May 5 - 1915 March 29
W. W. Denslow is best known for his illustration of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum. He also created the comic strip, Billy Bounce (McClure Syndicate) Sunday only strip. Denslow wrote, penciled, and inked the comic strip from 1901-11-10 - 1905-12-03.

Floyd Gottfredson (b. 1905)

1905 May 5 - 1986 July 22
Arthur Floyd Gottfredson (May 5, 1905 — July 22, 1986) was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip. He learned cartooning via a correspondence course and was working as a cartoonist for trade magazines and a local Salt Lake City paper by the late '20s. In 1928 he moved to southern California, and in 1929 he was hired as an in-betweener by the Disney Studio.

In early 1930, a few months after the launch of the Mickey Mouse newspaper strip, Ub Iwerks and Win Smith, the original artists, left Disney, and Gottfredson was asked by Walt Disney to take over on a temporary basis. Shortly after, Disney, who had been writing the stip, asked Gottfedson to take over that aspect as well. Gottfredson was later asked to take on the Sunday strip as well, and was eventually promoted to head of the Disney comics department, overseeing the Mickey daily and Sunday strips, the Donald Duck daily and Sunday, and the Silly Symphonies Sunday. He usually plotted and pencilled the Mickey strips, but relied on assistants to handle the writing and inking. He pencilled the strip until his retirement in 1975.

Greg (b. 1931)

1931 May 5 - 1999 October 29
Greg fut dessinateur, scénariste, rédacteur en chef et directeur littéraire de bande dessinée. De nationalité belge, il fut naturalisé français. Avec plus de 250 albums à son actif, en tant que dessinateur et (ou) scénariste, il fait partie des créateurs les plus prolifiques de la bande dessinée franco-belge.
[Greg was a comics penciller and writer, editor-in-chief and literary director for comics publishers. Of Belgian nationality, he was naturalized French. With more than 250 albums to his credit, as a cartoonist and (or) screenwriter, he is one of the most prolific creators of Franco-Belgian comics.]

つくしあきひと (b. 1979)

1979 May 5
Akihito Tsukushi (つくしあきひと) is a manga artist, illustrator and designer known for the manga series Made in Abyss (メイドインアビス).

吾峠呼世晴 (b. 1989)

1989 May 5
Koyoharu Gotouge (吾峠呼世晴) is a manga artist and creator of one of the all time best selling series, Kimetsu no Yaiba (鬼滅の刃 / Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba).

坂口尚 (b. 1946)

1946 May 5 - 1995 December 22
Hisashi Sakaguchi (坂口尚) is a highly esteemed manga artist and animator who worked for Osamu Tezuka's studio on series like Astro Boy, Ribon no Kishi (リボンの騎士 / Princess Knight) and The Jungle Emperor (ジャングル大帝). His published works include Akkanbe Ikkyu (あっかんべェ一休), Ishi no Hana (石の花 / Fleur de Pierre), Jyuni-shoku Monogatari (Twelve Color Tale), Kigen Girushia (紀元ギルシア / The Greek Epoch), Gekko Shawa (Moonlight Shower) and Version.

Lyman Anderson (b. 1907)

1907 May 4 - 1993 May 30
Lyman Anderson (1907-1993) was an American illustrator who worked primarily for magazines and advertising.

Anderson started in illustration in the late 1920s, working a lot for pulps. From 1935 to 1938, he designed the comic strip adaptation of the detective series Inspector Wade for King Features Syndicate. After the war, he devoted himself to magazine and advertising illustration while teaching until 1972 at the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut.

山田金鉄 (b. ????)

????? May 4
Kintetsu Yamada (山田金鉄) is the creator of the manga series Sweat and Soap (あせとせっけん).

Mario Caria (b. 1934)

1934 May 3 - 2001 September 13
Mario began as an illustrator drawing magazine covers and posters. In 1963 he started working for Fratelli Spada drawing hundreds of covers for their comic series which included Mandrake, Phantom, Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant and Star Trek.

Hank Chapman (b. 1915)

1915 May 3 - 1973 October 18
Hank Chapman did support work as an editor for Fox Comics from 1949 to 1953.

Chapman worked as a writer for DC, from about 1955 and 1959 to 1967; Lev Gleason in 1951; and for Marvel from 1940 to 1941 and from 1951 to 1954.