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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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Mario Caria (b. 1934)

1934 May 3 - 2001 September 13
Mario began as an illustrator drawing magazine covers and posters. In 1963 he started working for Fratelli Spada drawing hundreds of covers for their comic series which included Mandrake, Phantom, Flash Gordon, prince Valiant and Star Trek.

Hank Chapman (b. 1915)

1915 May 3 - 1973 October 18
Hank Chapman did support work as an editor for Fox Comics from 1949 to 1953.

Chapman worked as a writer for DC, from about 1955 and 1959 to 1967; Lev Gleason in 1951; and for Marvel from 1940 to 1941 and from 1951 to 1954.

Norman Thelwell (b. 1923)

1923 May 3 - 2004 February 7
Norman Thelwell was a British cartoonist well known for his humorous illustrations of ponies and horses.

He was a regular contributor to “Punch” magazine from 1952 to 1977, contributing 1,500 cartoons, including 60 used as front covers. He was also a political cartoonist in the late 1950s for the News Chronicle.

相原コージ (b. 1963)

1963 May 3
Koji Aihara (相原コージ) is a manga artist. Perhaps best known for his collaboration with Kentaro Takekuma on the satire of the manga industry titled Sarudemo Egakeru Manga Kyōshitsu (サルでも描けるまんが教室). Other work of note includes Shin Ishu Kakutou Taisen (真・異種格闘大戦), Mujina (ムジナ), Katte ni Shirokuma (かってにシロクマ) and Konji En (コージ苑).

真島ヒロ (b. 1977)

1977 May 3
Hiro Mashima (真島ヒロ) is the creator of the manga series Fairy Tail, Rave (a.k.a. Rave Master), Edens Zero, Monster Soul and Monster Hunter Orage.

鶴淵けんじ (b. ????)

????? May 3
Kenji Tsurubuchi (鶴淵けんじ) is a manga artist. Known for the series Touge Oni (峠鬼).

Peggy Bacon (b. 1895)

1895 May 2 - 1987 January 4
Created few cartoons and was better known for her caricatures, especially after a collection, "Off with Their Heads!", was published. Taught at the Art Students League, Moore College of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery School of Art.

Herman R. Bollin (b. 1902)

1902 May 2 - 1967 November 5
Herman R. Bollin worked in support as an art director for Ziff-Davis Publishing Company from circa 1938 to 1952. Bollin did painted covers for Ziff-Davis' aviation magazines during the 1930s.

Jared Gardner (b. 1966)

1966 May 2
Professor of English at Ohio State University focusing on American literature, comics, film and popular culture. Writer of the books "Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845," "Projections: Comics and the History of 21st-century Storytelling" and "The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture."

Seena Sand (b. 1924)

1924 May 2 - 2020 April 16
Seena took the position of art director for Marvel's Miss America magazine for four consecutive issues across two volumes (the final two of its fourth volume and the first two of its fifth) in the mid 1940s, being preceded and succeeded in the role by Melvin Blum. She appears to have contributed illustrations for text features in at least three of those issues, signing her work “S.” and “S.S.T.”

Seena would go on to have a long career as an artist, primarily as a sculptor. She has pieces in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.