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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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Eros Kara (b. 1929)

1929 April 28 - 2011 March 11
Eros Kara studied art in Milan and moved to Rome where he created posters for films. In 1959 he returned to Sardinia where he founded the magazine Mediterranea. In 1970, he devoted himself to producing comics and later returned to producing paintings.

James Mitchell (b. 1949)

1949 April 28
Underground artist (not the Disney or Marvel artist).

おむ・ザ・ライス (b. ????)

????? April 28
Omu the Rice (おむ・ザ・ライス) is a manga artist, known for the series Unmei wo Shinjinai Kare ga Iu ni wa (運命を信じない彼が言うには).

四方屋やも (b. ????)

????? April 28
Yamo Yomoya (四方屋やも) is a manga and doujinshi artist known for the manga adaptation of the light novel series Nidome no Yūsha wa Fukushū no Michi o Warai Ayumu (二度目の勇者は復讐の道を嗤い歩む / The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time).

河村要助 (b. 1944)

1944 April 28 - 2019 June 4
Yosuke Kawamura (河村要助) was a freelance illustrator, designer, painter, musician and music critic.

野崎つばた (b. ????)

????? April 28
Tsubata Nozaki (野崎つばた) is a manga artist, illustrator and character designer. Known for the series Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Kenki Koiuta (剣鬼恋歌 Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活†真銘譚). Has credits on the light novel series Your Forma (ユア・フォルマ) as well as its manga adaptation.

Ludwig Bemelmans (b. 1898)

1898 April 27 - 1962 October 1
Ludwig Bemelmans was a writer and illustrator primarily known for his series of Madeline children's books. Bemelmans began his career as a painter and artist and eventually became a cartoonist, starting with the New York World in 1926.

He created, wrote, and drew the comic, The Thrilling Adventures of the Count Bric a Brac for the New York World's magazine, The World Magazine, in 1926, though it lasted just six months. By the 1930s, Bemelmans was doing cartoons and illustrations for print advertisements and for magazines like Judge (Judge, 1881 series).

His first children's book was Hansi (Viking Press, 1934) and the first Madeline book in 1939 by Simon & Schuster. Bemelmans would go on to create and have published a further five Madeline books and another posthumously.

He is known for having written and illustrated a text feature for Dell, credited in 1947. Bails' Who's Who records that he also wrote and drew various features for Dell in 1944.

Bemelmans wrote and illustrated several books, wrote movie scripts, and painted murals.

Steve Ricketts (b. 1968)

1968 April 27
Steve Ricketts is the founder of Imagination Inx and the creator of the comic title, "Ripped."

Alan Rose (b. 1948)

1948 April 27 - 2015 July 7
Rose's early years were spent in Germany, Japan, Colorado, and Mississippi. His family moved to Baltimore when he was a teenager. After attending the Maryland Institute of Art, Rose worked as a graphic designer for the underground newspaper Harry and on John Waters' films. He moved to New York and from 1974 to 1988 worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for National Lampoon magazine. Rose earned acclaim with his World at Your Feet books. He married Anne (Spaulding) Rose in 1981 and moved to Springfield, Massachusetts. He died from lung cancer.

Ryan Woodward (b. 1972)

1972 April 27
Ryan Woodward began his career in 1995 as an efx animator on the films Space Jam, Quest for Camelot, The Iron Giant and Osmosis Jones for Warner Bros. Animation. In 2002 he transitioned his career to storyboards and contributed to the films, Spider-Man 2 and 3, Cowboys and Aliens, Where the Wild things Are, Iron Man 2, Snow White and the Hunstman, Thor 2, Captain America 2 and The Avengers. From 2002 to 2004, he had his own comic publishing company Summertime Books and Comics.