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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


Max Crumb (b. 1945)

1945 March 28
Artist, painter and writer.

Mario Faggella (b. 1964)

1964 March 28 - 2006 August 3
Mario Faggella started as an editor for Sergio Bonelli Editore in 2001. He is an author of non fiction books on Latin American history and culture.

Dawn McTeigue (b. ????)

????? March 28
Dawn McTeigue was born in Melbourne, Australia and is an American and Irish citizen. She has lived in Honduras, Japan, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Mexico. She currently resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
She is a self taught artist whose first comic cover was published in March 2012 and her first interior pages were published in July 2012 in Zenescope’s Wonderland Annual. She is best known a a cover artist for Zenescope Entertainment and has also worked for Rothic, Big Dog Ink, Valiant Entertainment, Dark Horse Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Coffin Comics and DC.

Frank Miller (b. 1925)

1925 March 28 - 1983 February 17
Frank Andrea Miller was an American editorial cartoonist. During World War II, he served with the Third Army in Europe. After returning home, Miller followed in his father's footsteps as a staff artist at the Kansas City Star.

He studied at the University of Kansas and the Kansas City Art Institute, and met his wife Catherine while attending the latter. In 1951 Miller was offered a job as cartoonist for for Des Moines Register, but was unable to accept the job until 1953 because he was recalled by the Army to serve in the Korean War.

He was a cartoonist for the Des Moines Register from 1953 to 1983, during which time he produced over 10,000 cartoons. In 1963, Miller received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for his notable editorial cartoon on nuclear warfare. His work was syndicated in over 50 newspapers at the time of his death.

In addition to producing cartoons, Miller was an accomplished watercolorist. His work was noted for landscapes that featured rural towns, vintage buildings, and picturesque farmyards.

John Jos. Miller (b. 1954)

1954 March 28 - 2022 January 5
Trained as a professional archeologist. Started having his science fiction works published in 1980.

三浦糀 (b. 1995)

1995 March 28
Kouji Miura (三浦糀) is a manga artist whose debut was in 2015. She's known for the series Ao no Hako (アオのハコ) and Sensei, Suki desu (先生、好きです。).

古味直志 (b. 1986)

1986 March 28
Naoshi Komi (古味直志) is a manga artist who made his debut in 2007 in Akamaru Jump magazine. Best known for the series Nisekoi (ニセコイ). Other works of his include Koi no Kami-sama (古味直志短編集 恋の神様) and Double Arts (ダブルアーツ).

水辺チカ (b. ????)

????? March 28
Chika Mizube (水辺チカ) is a manga artist. Known for the series Akujiki Reijō to Kyōketsu Kōshaku: Sono Mamono, Watashi ga Oishiku Itadakimasu! (悪食令嬢と狂血公爵 ~その魔物、私が美味しくいただきます!~).

Cecil Beard (b. 1907)

1907 March 27 - 1986 December 28
Alpine Harper was lead writer on Flippity and Flop strips and Cecil Beard was lead on Twiddle and Twaddle. However, they were a husband and wife team known to write collaboratively.

Hy Eisman (b. 1927)

1927 March 27
Eisman had a long career doing ghost work for comic books and comic strips.

Additional biographical details can be found in:
Cartoonist PROfiles (Jud Hurd, 1969 series) #34 (June 1977) and #46 (June 1980);
Hogan's Alley blog "Getting Hy on Comics: A Profile of Hy Eisman" 19 August 2020, https://www.hoganmag.com/blog/getting-hy-on-comics-a-profile-of-hy-eisman.

He did his first work at the age of 18 as a contributing cartoonist for Fort Pickett News (Fort Pickett [Virginia]) while in the U.S. Army circa 1945. Fort Pickett News was started by Bill Mauldin and Eisman worked with future Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, a fellow contributing cartoonist on the Fort's newspaper.

He was a ghost penciler for Vince Colletta from 1960 to 1964.

Eisman did gag cartoons for New Jersey Bell Telephone during 1960.

He did the artwork for a proposed book adaptation of Bud Blake's Tiger comic strip in 1970 but was never published.

He was a teacher at the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Arts from 1976 to 1994 and possibly onwards. He taught the art of lettering.

Syndication credits:
Bringing Up Father daily (King Features Syndicate) 1958-XX-XX - 1965-XX-XX [Ghost penciler.];
It Happened in New Jersey! weekly panel (New Jersey News [Newark, New Jersey]) 1953-XX-XX - 1956-XX-XX [Writer, penciler, and inker.];
Joe Panther daily (not syndicated) 1960-XX-XX - 1963-XX-XX [Penciler and inker. Spent several years trying to syndicate the comic strip but found only one possible taker, United Feature Syndicate. But both Eisman and writer Kelly Masters {working as Zachary Bell} balked at the standard contract terms being offered to them and decided not to proceed. The character was reworked into the October 1976 motion picture, Joe Panther {Artists & Creation Associates}.];
Katzenjammer Kids Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1986-XX-XX - 2006-01-01 [Writer, penciler, and inker. Eisman's work continues in reprints by King Features to present {as of 2021}.];
Kerry Drake daily (Publishers Syndicate) 1950-XX-XX ?; 1957-XX-XX - 1959-XX-XX [Ghost penciler. Did a one-off job for ];
Kerry Drake Sunday (Publishers Syndicate) 1957-XX-XX - 1959-XX-XX [Ghost penciler.];
Little Iodine Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1967-09-10 - 1983-08-14 [Writer, penciler, and inker.];
Mutt and Jeff Sunday (Bell-McClure Syndicate) 1963-XX-XX, 1965-XX-XX - 1966-XX-XX [Ghost penciler.];
Thimble Theatre / Popeye Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1994-XX-XX - present [As of 2021. Writer, penciler, and inker.].

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