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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.

We reached 4,000,000 stories !

The milestone story was a cartoon printed in The American Legion.

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Updates To The Site! (Mid 2024)

We added a filter option to only see issues in one of your collections for the issue lists for creators, characters and features on my.comics.org. That is in addition to the filter by country, language or publisher. From a creator, character or feature page you have a link to the corresponding page on my.comics.org, where on the issue lists the additional filter option appears. For example, here you can filter for issues with Batman as a feature in one of your collections.

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

Jean-Pierre Andrevon (b. 1937)

1937 September 19
Jean-Pierre Andrevon est écrivain, scénariste de BD, critique de cinéma, dessinateur, peintre.
Il publie des nouvelles dans la célèbre revue Fiction – jusqu’à la fin de la revue en 1989 – et son premier roman de science-fiction, Les hommes-machines contre Gandahar, paraît chez Denoël en 1969. Il sera adapté à l’écran vingt ans plus tard, sous la forme d’un dessin animé de long métrage, réalisé par René Laloux sur des dessins de Caza (1988). Puis, Andrevon élargit sa production, passant de la S-F au fantastique, à l’horreur, au livre pour la jeunesse, au policier. Il réalise des scénarios de bande dessinée pour le dessinateur Georges Pichard : les récits paraissent dans Charlie Mensuel, puis en albums aux éditions du Square.
Journaliste (vite spécialisée dans la critique cinématographique) dans une quotidien régional, son activité dans la presse se poursuit et culmine dans les années 70 : articles et dessins dans Charlie Hebdo, Charlie Mensuel, Combat Non-violent, critiques dans des revues BD (Circus, A Suivre), ou de cinéma, comme L’Écran Fantastique.
Il a réalisé deux courts-métrages, en 1971 et 1977.
Andrevon a également un engagement écologiste : il participe depuis son premier numéro (1971) à la rédaction de La Gueule Ouverte, première revue française consacrée à l’écologie militante.
Il a également une activité de peintre et dessinateur – sa formation initiale est aux Arts Décoratifs de Grenoble en 1957, d’où il sort nanti d’un Certificat d’Aptitude à l’Enseignement (CAFAS).

Lloyd DeMause (b. 1931)

1931 September 19 - 2020 April 23
Founder of The Journal of Psychohistory.

Carla Hansen (b. 1906)

1906 September 19 - 2001 December 6
Vilhelm Hansen and Carla Hansen were an artistic couple. He was a trained lithographist, while she was a writer. Vilhelm worked mainly as an advertising artist between the two World Wars, and only started making comics and illustrating the tales written by Carla in the 1940s.

Their collaborative comic Rasmus Klump, about the adventures of a bear, a pelican, a penguin, and some other animals, debuted in Denmark on November 17, 1951, as a daily comic strip. It soon became one of the most popular European children comics, being translated and distributed into many languages and countries, mainly by the publishing houses Carlsen Comics and Casterman. While they no longer wrote or drew the stories after 1965, it was their names that stayed on the albums.

Garry Leach (b. 1954)

1954 September 19 - 2022 March 26
Garry Leach is best known for his artwork on Marvelman and for co-founding Atomeka Press.

He also did support work as a letterer in British comic books during the 1980s. Leach also did support work for Quality Communications as an art director from 1981 to an unknown date and for Atomeka Press as an editor from 1988 to 1990.

Along with Garth Ennis and John McCrea, Leach won the Eisner Award "Best Single Issue" for Hitman (DC, 1996 Series) #34 (February 1999).

Bob Myers (b. 1950)

1950 September 19 - 2010 November 13
Additional biographical information found:
"Bob Myers, RIP", by Richard Newcombe (Creators Syndicate) https://www.creators.com/pages/letters-from-the-founder/bob-myers-rip

Syndication work:
Star Trek daily (Los Angeles Times Syndicate) 1983-02-14 ? - 1983-05-07 ? [Bob Myers did art assist, probably inking, for Padaric Shigetani during the 16th storyline of the comic strip.];
[General caricatures] (North America Syndicate [King Features Syndicate]) 197X-XX-XX ? - 19XX-XX-XX ? [Pencil and ink work. Caricatures of political figures, world leaders, and others in the news.]

Myers was the art director for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate during an unspecified time period. He also worked in the art department for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and the Los Angeles Daily News dates unknown.

Stephen Segovia (b. ????)

????? September 19
Stephen Segovia is largely self-taught before he was able to break into industry for comics. His professional career began at age sixteen. He worked with several publishers, including Tomas en Kulas of Funny Komiks, CAST of Nautilus Comics in his native Philippines and Shadowmance for U.K. publisher Markosia. In the United States, he has contributed to such titles as Tokyo Knights and M.I.T.H., Red Sonja, Battlestar Gallactica, Witchblade, Vampirella, Countdown to Mystery, Wolverine Origins, Wolverine Manifest Destiny, Mighty Avengers, Dark Wolverine, Silver Surfer.

Yasmin Sheikh (b. 1982)

1982 September 19
Yasmin Sheikh is an illustrator and concept artist from the Netherlands.

Cheyenne Wright (b. 1971)

1971 September 19
Cheyenne Wright is a freelance cartoonist, illustrator and concept artist. He was born in Hawaii and lives in Seattle with his wife, Eli Danger, and their daughter.

Since 2005 he has been the color artist of Phil and Kaja Foglio's "Girl Genius" comic. He is the creator of the comic "ArcaneTimes: The adventures of Alan Arcane".

He has worked as an illustrator and character designer for various role-playing games including "Savage Worlds" and also narrates short stories for fiction podcasts like PodCastle and DrabbleCast.

押切蓮介 (b. 1979)

1979 September 19
Rensuke Oshikiri (押切蓮介) is a manga artist, illustrator and musician with many credits to his name. His works include Hi Score Girl (ハイスコアガール), Semai Sekai no Identity (狭い世界のアイデンティティー), Kurai Roka Toshiro No Genkan (暗い廊下とうしろの玄関), Nekoze o Nobashite (猫背を伸ばして), Homura no Me (焔の眼), Pico Pico Shōnen EX (ピコピコ少年EX), HaHa, Yūyami Tokkōtai (ゆうやみ特攻隊), Dero Dero (でろでろ), Sayuri (サユリ), The Sweet Refreshments of Ghost (おばけのおやつ), Gyanprin (ぎゃんぷりん), Yōkai Massage (妖怪マッサージ), Pupipō! (プピポー!), Boku to Ane to Obake-tachi (ぼくと姉とオバケたち), Odoro Machi Mononoke Roku (おどろ町モノノケ録), Granba (ぐらんば), Camellia (ツバキ) and many others.

Sheridan Anderson (b. 1936)

1936 September 18 - 1984 March 31
Larger than life outdoorsman, fly fisherman, author and cartoonist/illustrator best known for the well-regarded fly fishing guide The Curtis Creek Manifesto.

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