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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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Cassie Bill (b. 1910)

1910 April 24 - 2001 November 7
Cassie Bill [Kathryn Helen Brinkman Bill] assisted Bill Woggon from sometime during the 1950s to 1961. She worked primarily doing pencil and ink work on the Katy Keene feature with Archie. As a high school student, she was a pianist with the Zoehlner Quartet. After attending the Art Center School in Pasadena, she was a fashion illustrator for the designer Irene, first at Bullock’s Wilshire, and later at MGM. There she worked with movie greats of the day, Lucille Ball, Carole Lombard, Greer Garson and Marlene Dietrich. In 1934, Cassie married John D. Bill, and in 1949 they moved to Santa Barbara with their two daughters, Judy and Molly. She remained an active and accomplished pianist, for a time giving piano lessons. Her ongoing artistic endeavors included cartooning, book illustrations, watercolor painting and line drawings.

Stanley Kauffmann (b. 1916)

1916 April 24 - 2013 October 9
Stanley Kauffmann was a renowned New York theatre and film critic. A 1935 graduate of New York University, he began writing novels —his first was published in 1941— and also spent a brief period in the prospering comicbook industry, first at the B.W. Sangor Shop (1942), then as an editor at Fawcett.

望公太 (b. 1989)

1989 April 24
Kouta Nozomi (望公太) is a Japanese author. Representative work is the light novel series Inō-Batoru wa Nichijō-kei no Naka de (異能バトルは日常系のなかで).

히어리 (b. ????)

????? April 24
HereLee (히어리) is a webtoon adapter and storyboard artist. Has credits on the webtoon series Jaehon Hwanghu (재혼황후), Kkonminam Jeoseungsaja (꽃미남 저승사자) as well as Harem-ui Namja-deul (하렘의 남자들).

Jim Campbell (b. 1968)

1968 April 23
Campbell was born in the Sovereign Base Areas of Dhekelia in Cyprus, then was deported with his family in 1973.

Delfeil de Ton (b. 1934)

1934 April 23
Delfeil de Ton est journaliste de la presse écrite française.
Après des études de lettres et de droit, il passe plus de trente mois en Algérie. De retour à Paris, il rédige Les Mémoires de Delfeil de Ton tout en souhaitant intégrer le milieu journalistique.
Delfeil de Ton intègre Hara-Kiri en 1967 ; en 1969, il devient rédacteur en chef de Charlie mensuel Jusqu’en 1970. En février 1969, il est l’un des collaborateurs fondateurs d’Hara-Kiri Hebdo. Sous le titre « Les Lundis de Delfeil de Ton », page créée dans Hara-Kiri Hebdo en 1969, il traite de l’actualité et des faits de société.
À partir de 1975, tout en restant à Hara-Kiri Hebdo, il collabore au quotidien Libération (rubrique "Rapido" jusqu’en 1981), ainsi qu’à l’hebdomadaire Le Nouvel Observateur.
[Delfeil de Ton is a journalist for the French press.
After studying literature and law, he spent more than thirty months in Algeria. Back in Paris, he wrote Delfeil’s Memoirs of Ton while wishing to integrate the journalistic milieu.
Delfeil de Ton joined Hara-Kiri in 1967; in 1969, he became editor-in-chief of Charlie monthly Until 1970. In February 1969, he was one of the founding collaborators of Hara-Kiri Hebdo. From 1975, while remaining in Hara-Kiri Hebdo, he contributed to the daily paper Libération ("Rapido" section until 1981), as well as to the weekly newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur.]

Charles Johnson (b. 1948)

1948 April 23
Multifaceted writer/scholar/essayist/cartoonist best known for the award winning historical novel Middle Passage (1990).

Karen Ordahl Kupperman (b. 1939)

1939 April 23
Karen Ordahl Kupperman is an American historian who specializes in colonial history in the Atlantic world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

She studied History at the University of Missouri, graduating in 1961 with a BA. She was also a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She obtained a Woodrow Wilson fellowship and studied at Harvard University, earning an MA in 1962.

She married Joel J. Kupperman, professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut. They have two children, Michael Kupperman and Charlie Anders Kupperman. While the children were young, Kupperman taught at the University of Connecticut. She moved to the University of Cambridge for two years with her family, earning a PhD in 1978. She then taught at the University of Connecticut until 1995. She was a Mellon Faculty Fellow at Harvard University from 1980 to 1981. In 1995 she became a professor of history at New York University.

Kupperman has been a fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the National Humanities Center, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has served on boards and committees of the American Historical Association, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, William and Mary Quarterly, New England Seminar in American History, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography and the American Antiquarian Society.

Dana Simpson (b. 1977)

1977 April 23
Simpson is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the syndicated comic strip Phoebe and Her Unicorn, as well as the long-running web comic Ozy and Millie. Other works created by Simpson include the political commentary cartoon I Drew This and the alternate reality drama comic Raine Dog.

Shirley Temple (b. 1928)

1928 April 23 - 2014 February 10
Shirley Temple Black was an iconic American child actress, singer, and, later in life, diplomat.