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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


Kurt Caesar (b. 1908)

1908 March 30 - 1974 July 12
Kurt Caesar graduated in engineering. In print media, as an artist, he was an expert in aircraft and warfare publications.

Additional biographical information:
World Encyclopedia of Comics (Chelsea House Publishers, 1976 series) 1976 (hardcover)

John Fiske (b. 1842)

1842 March 30 - 1901 July 4
John Fiske was a philosopher and historian whose work has been adapted in comic books for various international Classics Illustrated editions.

Richard Forg (b. 1965)

1965 March 30
Richard started in animation in 1984. He later did comics such as Laundry Land and Liaisons Delicieuses for Fantagraphics, as well as Adrift and Aliens: Lovesick for Dark Horse.

His animation works include Beetlejuice: The Animated Series, The Care Bears Family (1985 TV Series), The Raccoons, The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island, The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, Ewoks (Star Wars Animated TV Series), and Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.

Rosi Kämpe (b. 1989)

1989 March 30
Artist who has worked on series such as Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider (Marvel, 2018 series) and Civil War II: Choosing Sides (Marvel, 2016 series). Also has a web comic titled Unknown Lands.

Ethel Plummer (b. 1888)

1888 March 30 - 1936 October 31
Plummer was an illustrator for many of the major magazines published in New York City and was the first woman artist to be published in The New Yorker Magazine. She was married twice, to Norman Jacobson in 1917 and then to Colonel Frederic Humphreys around 1930 but appears to have exclusively used her maiden name in her professional work.

寺沢武一 (b. 1955)

1955 March 30 - 2023 September 8
Buichi Terasawa (寺沢武一) is a manga artist who began his career studying under Osamu Tezuka after he moved to Tokyo in 1976. He made his debut in 1978 with Cobra (コブラ). Later on he pioneered the use of color computer graphics with his BAT and Takeru series. Other works of note include Goku Midnight Eye (MIDNIGHT EYE ゴクウ), Sigma 45 (シグマ45) and Karasu Tengu Kabuto (鴉天狗カブト).

岡村賢二 (b. 1963)

1963 March 30
Kenji Okamura (岡村賢二) is a manga artist whose debut was in 1984. Known for the titles Ukyo no Ozora (宇強の大空), Crimson Wolf (紅狼), Hakkenshi (八犬士), Shihon Taiheiki (私本太平記), GOAL, Football Hado Suteki na Shoubai wa Nai!! (フットボールほど素敵な商売はない!!), Shin Kage Gari (新・影狩り) and Gottsuan Desu (ごっつあんです).

皇ハマオ (b. 1980)

1980 March 30
Hamao Sumeragi (皇ハマオ) is a manga artist. Works include Sekai Saikō no Asassin, Isekai Kizoku ni Tensei Suru (世界最高の暗殺者、異世界貴族に転生する / The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat), Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de (君が主で執事が俺で / They Are My Noble Masters), Tsubakiiro Ballad (椿色バラッド) and the manga adaptation of the video game version of Tsuyokiss (つよきす).

Miguel Castro Rodríguez (b. 1959)

1959 March 29
https://www.tebeosfera.com/autores/castro_rodriguez_miguel.html

José González (b. 1939)

1939 March 29 - 2009 March 13
https://www.tebeosfera.com/autores/gonzalez_navarro_jose.html

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
16,274 publishers
73,258 creators
201,268 series
2,041,304 issues
189,958 variant issues
448,077 issue indexes
1,207,194 covers
3,888,546 stories