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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

Arthur A. Ageton (b. 1900)

1900 October 25 - 1971 April 23
Arthur Ainslie Ageton was a naval officer, ambassador, writer, and writing teacher. He was the United States Ambassador to Paraguay from September 9, 1954, to April 10, 1957.
He wrote or co-wrote books, including The Naval Officer's Guide, Admiral Ambassador to Russia, Manual of Celestial Navigation, and The Marine Officer.

Cecil Castellucci (b. 1969)

1969 October 25
She was born in New York to French-Canadian parents and has dual American/Canadian citizenship.

Diego Galindo (b. 1978)

1978 October 25
Diego graduated from the Facultad de Bellas Artes Sevilla in 2003 and the Master Transitorio - Bellas Artes in 2009. He started work for Dynamite Comics in 2016 and later for Boom! Studios and Dark Horse Comics.

Doc Hoag (b. 1904)

1904 October 25 - 1983 April 18
Doc Hoag was a comic book artist on the feature "Doc's" Little Big Show for Funny Pages (Comics Magazine Company, 1936 series) and as a cartoonist for electronic and radio magazines. His work appeared primarily in the late 1930s.

Outside of his comic and cartoon work, Hoag ran his own business for a time called Hoag Radio in Utica, New York and he developed a method of background music that was eventually sold to Muzac.

He did numerous articles over the years for electronics-related magazines.

Hoag was a life-long participant in amateur radio. He founded the Utica Amateur Radio Club, was a member of the Antique Wireless Association (AWA), the Quarter Century Wireless Association (QCWA) Gator Chapter of Clearwater Florida, and of the Audio Engineering Society. Hoag maintained the radio call signs 8BMZ in 1921, and later W8HNY, W8JYQ, and WB2DMH.

Until his retirement in 1969, he worked in the Advanced Development Engineering portion of the General Electric Radio Review Department.

Hoag attended Vernon High School in Vernon, New York, the RCA Institute, and attended Mohawk Valley Community College. It is likely his cartooning was mostly self-taught.

Job (b. 1927)

1927 October 25 - 2024 October 8
En 1964, André Jobin, journaliste, fonde une revue pour enfants, "Le Crapaud à lunettes". En 1967, il engage un nouveau collaborateur, Derib. Deux ans plus tard, paraissent les premières aventures du "Hibou Pythagore", dont Job signe le scénario et Derib le dessin. En 1969, avec Derib toujours, Job écrit les aventures de Yakari le petit indien. Cinq ans après, il fonde la revue "Yakari". En 1991, Job est consacré par le festival de Sierre, en Suisse, qui lui décerne sa Maîtrise d’honneur pour l’ensemble de son œuvre. Il continue d’écrire les aventures de Yakari.
[In 1964, journalist André Jobin founded a children’s magazine, "Le Crapaud à lunettes". In 1967, he hired a new collaborator, Derib. Two years later, appear the first adventures of the "Pythagorean Owl", of which Job signs the script and Derib the drawing. In 1969, with Derib, Job wrote the adventures of Yakari the little Indian. Five years later, he founded the magazine "Yakari". In 1991, Job was consecrated by the Sierre Festival in Switzerland, which awarded him his Master of Honor for his entire work. He continues to write the adventures of Yakari.]

Mike Kaye (b. 1976)

1976 October 25
Mike Kaye is an Emmy nominated, TELLY award-winning graphic artist and comic book creator. He's won numerous awards including Geico's Seat Belt Art Contest, Cure for Diabetes Shirt Art Contest, Centennial logo design, Best of Show in abstract photography at the Broward County Fair, a TELLY, and several other art related awards.

An article entitled, "Can Other Comic Books Save Real People?" in the Broward Palm Beach New Times (November 21, 2013) features Kaye. Kaye’s comic books have raised money for charities including Susan Komen for the Cure and St Francis Food Pantries for the homeless. Kaye’s original comic art sold alongside Jim Davis and other celebrities in the annual Doodle for Hunger Celebrity auctions from 2014-2018.

Mike appeared on WBEC, a local television station of Broward County Public Schools where he received an award for his creation of the centennial logo celebrating one hundred years of public schooling in Broward County, Florida (on June 15, 2016, his on-air appearance starts at 20:24). He was interviewed on WebTalkRadio on September 16, 2013 and compared to the late Stan Lee for his comic creating talents.

Kaye's "Amphoman Presents" was a comic strip series first published in the bi-weekly Broward Community College, on February 20, 1995. Kaye's character, Bleash The Fair-Feathered Warrior, also made his debut that day, in the Editorial section. Kaye's mentor through the 1990s and 2000s was the late Mort Walker of Beetle Bailey who guided Kaye through his trials and errors of comic strip creating. A black poodle named Trixie that appears in the Amphoman books, is based on the creator's own pet, she also appears in the introduction of a BECON (Broward County Public School Board Television Network) series called, "Take Paws". Kaye has appeared in the news on numerous occasions for his comic book series "Amphoman" from 2009 to current. Kaye has 31 registered copyrights at the Library of Congress for Amphoman.

On August 23, 2023, Advent Comics published Mike Kaye’s comic book, Ulrius Jewels #1.

Kaye is a lunchbox enthusiast who created the three point grading system for vintage metal lunchboxes. He was nominated for a Suncoast Regional Emmy Award for set design in 2009.

A portion of Kaye's life's work was donated to Michigan State University Comic Art Collection.

Further biographical details found:
https://en.everybodywiki.com/Mike\_Kaye

Michele Robinson (b. 1941)

1941 October 25 - 2015 May 30
Robinson assisted Gil Kane on the comic, His Name Is Savage (Adventure House Press, 1968 series) #1 (June 1968).

She did coloring support work for Marvel in 1969, 1974, and from 1985 to 1988; Warren, from 1974 to 1975; Eclipse, during 1986; and DC, during 1988.

Michele worked doing material for the Nickel Library Series (Eric Fromm), during the 1970s.

She did pencil and ink work on the Berkeley Con Program for the 1973 convention.

月山可也 (b. ????)

????? October 25
Kaya Tsukiyama (月山可也) is a mangaka. Debuted in 2000. Best known for illustrating the series Area no Kishi (エリアの騎士 / The Knight in the Area).

松本大洋 (b. 1967)

1967 October 25
Taiyō Matsumoto (松本大洋) is a manga artist who debuted in 1987. Among his works are Tekkonkinkreet (鉄コン筋クリート), Ping Pong (ピンポン), No. 5 (ナンバーファイブ 吾), Blue Spring (青い春), GoGo Monster (GOGOモンスター), Sunny, Takemitsuzamurai (竹光侍) and Cats of the Louvre (ルーヴルの猫).

池田晃久 (b. 1976)

1976 October 25
Akihisa Ikeda (池田晃久) is a manga artist known for the Rosario + Vampire (ロザリオとバンパイア) series. He's also known for the series Ghost Girl ゴーストガール under the name Akissa Saiké (紗池晃久).

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