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GCD Comics Timeline

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Billican (b. 1888)

1888 May 9 - 1929 April 3
Additional biographical information is found at:
Stripper's Guide, "Ink-Slinger Profiles by Alex Jay: Billican" by Alex Jay, Friday, February 04, 2022: http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2022/02/ink-slinger-profiles-by-alex-jay.html

Wilfred Canan, working under the pen name of Billican (a contraction of his name), was a cartoonist who worked in the early 20th Century.

Working as a machinist resulted in becoming a disabled person in 1912, Canan began to study through The W. L. Evans School of Cartooning.

After his studies, he began to work for The Crow Wing County Digest (The Crow Wing County Digest, 1914 series) and also freelanced, with material published in the Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, Minnesota), Duluth Herald (Duluth, Minnesota) at various times. Afterward, he worked for the Brainerd Daily Dispatch (Brainerd, Minnesota) and the Brainerd Journal Press (Brainerd, Minnesota, "mining" chalk plates for the paper for about six months).

Beginning in 1917, Billican became a staff cartoonist for Fargo Daily Courier-News (Fargo, North Dakota) and then for the National Nonpartisan Leader [The North Dakota Leader]. From February 1918 onward, he provided cartoons for Nonpartisan weekly and daily newspapers throughout the Dakotas and Minnesota.

By 1920, he was the publisher of a periodical for organized farmers and workers in North Dakota called The Goat. He returned to Brainerd, Minnesota in 1921 after falling out with the Nonpartisan League. By 1924, he had cartoons published in the Daily Worker (The Daily Worker Publishing Company, 1921 series). By 1928, he was working for the Krieg Letter Company.

Rosario Dawson (b. 1979)

1979 May 9
Actor whose roles include several comic book related movies; Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Men in Black II (2002), Sin City (2005), The Spirit (2008), Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), and as Claire Temple in Netflix TV shows Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders. Dawson also has done voice acting work in animated movies Wonder Woman (2009), Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015), Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016), Justice League Dark (2016), and The Lego Batman Movie (2017).

Co-created and co-wrote the Occult Crimes Taskforce (Image, 2006 series) comic book.

Brian Duffy (b. 1955)

1955 May 9
Political cartoonist at the Des Moines Register from 1973-1998.

Mário Freitas (b. 1972)

1972 May 9
Mário Freitas is a Portuguese editor, designer, comics writer, artist and letterer. He is the owner of Kingpin Books, a Portuguese comics shop and publisher.

William Marston (b. 1893)

1893 May 9 - 1947 May 2
Inventor and developer of the systolic blood-pressure test, an early Lie Detector Test. Practicing psychologist. Created the psychoanalytical DISC theory, which was later developed into a behavioral assessment tool for psychologists. Member of the DC Comics Editorial Advisory Board as a consultant, 1940-1941. Writer of psychological books and journal articles. Creator of Wonder Woman, 1941.

Other bibliographic sources:
Harvard Class of 1915 25th Anniversary Report, pages 480-482 (reprinted http://www.flavinscorner.com/drww.htm, retrieved 2 March 2018); New York Times, May 3, 1947 (obituary); Who Was Who, 1947; and World Encyclopedia of Comics, 1976, 1998.

Robert Meyers (b. 19??)

19??? May 9
Robert Meyers has worked at Valiant Entertainment as an intern (2013-2016), managing editor (2016), editorial director (2016-2018), and senior editorial director (2018-2020). Has worked at Oni Press as senior editor since April 2020.

大高忍 (b. 1983)

1983 May 9
Shinobu Ohtaka (大高忍) is a manga artist and creator of the series Sumomomo Momomo: The Strongest Bride on Earth (すもももももも〜地上最強のヨメ〜 / Sumomo mo Momo mo ~Chijō Saikyō no Yome~) and Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (マギ / Magi).

Sherman Burnett (b. 1969)

1969 May 8
Sherman Burnett is a longtime small-press creator who self-publishes his comics under the name Firebird Press. Primarily a writer, he has also drawn many of his comics, in addition to utilizing the talents of a number of guest artists from the small-press community over the years. He began creating comics in 1986, with one of his earliest attempts being the Energons, his longest-running and best-known series.

Jorge Corona (b. 19??)

19??? May 8
Jorge Corona is a comic artist whose works include We Are… Robin, Nightwing, and The Flash for DC Comics; Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack, Adventure Time Comics, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Dragons, and others for Boom! Studios. Corona is also the co-creator of Goners and No. 1 with a Bullet (Nominated for the 2018 Eisner Awards for Best Cover Artist) for Image Comics, and creator of Feathers, his all-ages dark fantasy, for Archaia Entertainment.

Benjamin Earl (b. 1980)

1980 May 8
Working first as a film producer and writer, under the name Benjamin Jackendoff. Later as a comic book writer he used the name Benjamin Earl, often credited as B. Earl.