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1945 July 5

François Bourgeon is a French comics artist. His graphic novels have ranged from nautical and medieval historical fiction to science fiction, and characteristically, within settings of violence and sexuality, epic stories revolve around strong female characters.

Getting illustrations published in magazines from 1971 eventually led him to pursue graphic storytelling. His first major works were the medieval series Brunelle et Colin and Les Compagnons du crépuscule. Les Passagers du vent, for which Bourgeon abandoned Brunelle et Colin, became recognized as one of the most important European comic series of its era.

After Bourgeon had finished up Les Passagers du vent saga in 2022, he retired from creating comics and donated his entire body of work, both BD art originals and associated research materials, to the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image museum in Angoulême.

1966 July 5

Siri Dokken is a Norwegian illustrator. She worked for the newspaper Dag og Tid from 1994 and then for Dagsavisen since 1995. She won the Swedish EWK Prize in 2005[2] and the Editorial Cartoon of the Year award in 2007 and 2011.

1948 July 5

Member of APA-5; CAPA-alpha; SFPA.
Member of Myriad (apa) '70s.
Member of Stobcler (apa) '75-78.

Co-Publisher and Co-Editor of fanzine Gremlin from 1968-71.

1936 July 5 - 2015 August 1

Jean-Jacques Loup est un auteur de bande dessinée, un dessinateur caricaturiste, un dessinateur de presse français. Il commence à travailler comme caricaturiste en France en 1969. En 1974, il s’adonne à la bande dessinée, puis il devient dessinateur politique à "Rebuts de presse" dans l’émission télévisée "Droit de réponse" de Michel Polac sur TF1. Entre les années 1970 et 1980, Loup a travaillé pour différents journaux français, dont l’Express, Marianne, Le Nouvel Obs et dans pléthore de magazines de bande dessinée tels que "Fluide glacial", "Mormoil", "Le Trombone illustré", "Charlie Mensuel", "Pilote", "L'Écho des savanes", "Spirou". Artiste accompli, il multiplie les talents en étant également architecte et pianiste de Jazz. [Jean-Jacques Loup is a Jean-Jacques Loup is a French comic book author, caricaturist, press cartoonist. He began working as a cartoonist in France in 1969. In 1974, he devoted himself to the comic strip, then he became a political cartoonist at "Rebuts de presse" in the television program "Droit de réponse" by Michel Polac on the TF1 television channel. Between the 1970s and 1980s, he worked in various comic book magazines such as "Fluide glacial", "Mormoil", "Le Trombone illustré", "Charlie Mensuel", "Pilote", "L'Écho des savanes", "Spirou". Accomplished artist, he multiplies talents by being also architect and Jazz pianist.]

1961 July 5

Gary Spencer Millidge is a British comic book creator best known for his series Strangehaven. He has also written and contributed to books about comics.

1958 July 5

Watterson is an American cartoonist who authored the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes (English). The strip was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson concluded Calvin and Hobbes with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in the medium.

1967 July 5

Silvia Ziche is an Italian comic book artist and writer, known for her work in Disney comics for the Italian comic digest Topolino. Ziche has also worked on the magazines Linus, Comix and Cuore.

1964 July 5

Ryōji Minagawa (皆川亮二) is a manga artist and writer who made his debut in 1988. Among his works are- artwork only: Spriggan (スプリガン), Project Arms (Arms), Adamas, D-Live!! and Peace Maker.

1976 July 4

Jo Chen is an American comic book artist and writer best known for her highly detailed painted comic book covers. Born in Taiwan, she immigrated to the United States in 1994.

Working professionally in the Asian comic book industry since age fourteen, she began her career in the U.S. comic book industry in 2000. She is most well known to American comic readers as the cover artist of Runaways, and Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics.

Under the pseudonym TogaQ, she and author Kichiku Neko (aka, Narcissus) created the manga series In These Words.

1947 July 4 - 2019 December 24

Ellie de Ville, is known for her lettering work on many strips for 2000AD, starting in the 1990s, but her many credits include Judge Dredd Megazine as well as titles from various British and American publishers. Her work can often be distinguished by her backwards Q.

1895 July 4 - 1957 month? day?

Howard Ferguson was primarily a letterer who worked in the American comic book industry in the 1940s and 1950s. He is most remembered for his work with Simon and Kirby at several publishers, including Fox and Timely. He came to New York in the late 1930s from Detroit where he'd been working for an ad agency. He was noted as an inveterate smoker and coffee drinker, which are presumed to be the cause of his death in 1957. The exact day and place of his death are unknown, but he was presumed to be living in the New York City area.

Ferguson had three marriages, none of which lasted long. He had two daughters, one with each of his first two wives.

Ferguson was known to have done support work as a letterer for Archie [MLJ] during the 1940s; Avon from 1949 to 1950; Bailey Publications during 1944; Charlton from 1955 to 1956; DC from 1942 to 1944; Feature [Crestwood] from 1947 to 1948; Fox Comics in 1940; Gilberton during 1949; Harvey from 1946 to 1947; Hillman from 1947 to 1948; J. C. Penney Company in 1947; Mainline from 1954 to 1955; Marvel Comics from 1940 to 1942; Novelty in 1941, Prize from 1941 to 1957 with work published as late as 1959; Seaboard Publishing / Famous Authors Illustrated in 1950; Stanley Morse from 1952 to 1955; and St. John in 1951.

His work also appeared in reprints for Vintage Features in 1979 and Pure Imagination from 1997 to 1998 among many others.

The Who's Who also lists pencil and ink credits for Ferguson for Pines [Better] with filler stories, from 1940 to 1941, and promotional house advertisements in 1941; pencil and ink credits DC on various features; filler story pencil and ink work for Feature during the 1940s; and pencil and ink-backup story work for Harvey in 1942, possibly under the signature of Ferg.

1883 July 4 - 1970 December 7

Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor.

He is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complex gadgets that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning in 1948 and the Banshees' Silver Lady Award 1959.

Goldberg was a founding member and the first president of the National Cartoonists Society, and he is the namesake of the Reuben Award, which the organization awards to the Cartoonist of the Year. He is the inspiration for various international competitions, known as Rube Goldberg Machine Contests, which challenge participants to make a complex machine to perform a simple task.

1977 July 4

David Petersen is an American comic book creator best known for the series Mouse Guard.

1962 July 4 - 2023 January 26

Marcelo Sosa was an Argentine illustrator. He worked as an inker for Marvel. Previously, he was a cartoonist for Fierro magazine. Along with Juan Bobillo and Gabriel Bobillo, he was the co-creator of Anita la Hija del verdugo, an Argentine comic. As an illustrator and comic artist, he published in Argentina and abroad: in the Diario Clarín, Penguin Readers, La Cúpula Editorial and Heavy Metal.

1967 July 4

Hirokazu Hikawa (ひかわ博一) is the artist on the manga adaptations of the Kirby and Bonk video games.

Updates To The Site! (Q2 2025)

Besides updating and renovating our page designs, in particular making it useable on small screens, we made a couple of changes on the behaviour of the site.

The result tables and lists are now more consistent throughout the site. On many pages you now fill find these two symbols . By clicking on them one can switch with a list view and an image view, e.g. using covers or creator faces.

Filtering of search results or lists is now usually available.

To avoid visual information overload in case of many variants or reprints, we show the full list only if their number is below a threshold. Logged-in users can set the thresholds in their profile to allow user-defined display.

The functionality for adding issues to a collection, or editing their collection status, is now accessible on the main site.

Most data objects now support markdown in the notes for visual structure. Notes now also support internal links, these are generated automatically and shown with the object name, e.g. [gcd_link_issue](442), or generally [gcd_link_'object_type'](id)

We changed the colors on the series status tables for a more consistent appearance. For issues, we added another layer to indicate that some sequence data is present.

Keywords are now generally clickable troughout the site.

Indexing Milestone!

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We reached 456,789 indexed issues !

The milestone issue was Earp: Saints for Sinners #0 from publisher Radical Comics.

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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.