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The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is a nonprofit, internet-based organization of international volunteers dedicated to building an open database covering all printed comics throughout the world.
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Benjamin David "Stookie" Allen (30 January 1903 – 6 January 1971) was a cartoonist who specialized in nonfiction and inspirational features. He created the nationally syndicated comic strips Heroes of Democracy and Keen Teens. For the pulps, he created and drew Argosy magazine's Men of Daring and Women of Daring, and Detective Fiction Weekly's Illustrated Crime.
He worked on the comic strip Flapper Fanny during the 1930s with his wife, Gladys Parker, while they lived in New York City. They moved to Los Angeles in 1937. When Allen moved to California, he drew a horse racing tip sheet comic called It's a Bet for the Los Angeles Herald-Express.
Walter sold his first cartoons to the national farming magazine Successful Farming. His gag cartoons were published in more than 20 magazines. He served in the Army during World War II and was awarded the Bronze Star. Wetterberg worked on the comic strip Out Our Way (The Willets) during the mid-1960s.
Aya Kanno (菅野文) is a manga artist and illustrator known for works like Soul Rescue (ソウルレスキュー / Souru Resukyū), Otomen (オトメン(乙男), Blank Slate (悪性 -アクサガ- / Akusei – Akusaga), Requiem of the Rose King (薔薇王の葬列 / Bara Ou no Souretsu), Kokoro ni Hana wo!! (ココロに花を!!), Hokusō Shinsengumi (北走新選組) and Kōtetsu no Hana (凍鉄の花).
Syndication work:
Sportsman's Digest weekly (General Features Corporation) 1952-XX-XX - 1974-XX-XX [Sharp wrote and did the art.];
Sportsman's Digest weekly (Los Angeles Times Syndicate) 1974-XX-XX - 1992-XX-XX [Sharp wrote and did the art. Probably reprinted after his death.]
Yukinobu Hoshino (星野之宣) is a manga artist with extensive credits to his name in both science fiction and history genres. Known for works like 2001 Nights (2001夜物語 / Nisen'ichi Ya Monogatari), Blue Hole (ブルー ホール, Burū Hōru), Yamataika (ヤマタイカ), Blue City (ブルーシティー), Saber Tiger (サーベル・タイガー / Sāberu Taigā) and the Professor Munakata manga series.
Mu-jik Park (Korean: 박무직), known professionally as Boichi, is a South Korean manhwa-turned-manga artist living in Japan.
Intending to be a manga artist from his childhood days, Boichi majored in physics in college as preparation to draw science fiction works, and also to learn the technology of performance and imaging. He went on to graduate school to major in image technology. In 1993, while still enrolled, Boichi debuted in a Korean girls manhwa magazine. Since then, he gained popularity releasing a number of works and publishing books on how to draw manga targeting a wide range of readers.
Connie Rasinski was an animator best known for his work with Terrytoons, which he was a director for from 1937 to 1965.
Rasinski did comic book work for Jason Comic Art from 1945 to 1946, which appeared in titles by Spotlight Publishers [1940s], Magazine Enterprises, Round Publishing Company, and Harvey.
By 1947, and continuing until at least 1954, Rasinski worked on Terrytoons comic book titles for St. John.
Suehiro Maruo (丸尾末広) is a manga artist, painter and illustrator known for his striking visual style reminiscent of 19th century Japanese woodblock muzan-e prints. His published works in English include Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show, Strange Tale of Panorama Island and Ultra-Gash Inferno.
Kia Asamiya (麻宮騎亜) is a manga artist who made his debut in 1986. He first became known for the series Silent Möbius (サイレントメビウス). Other works include Martian Successor Nadesico (機動戦艦ナデシコ), Compiler and Steam Detectives (快傑蒸気探偵団). He's also done work featuring Western franchise brands including a Star Wars adaptation and the Batman: Child of Dreams series.
The milestone cover was the cover by Mathieu Lampron for the issue Le démon du hockey published by Glénat Québec.
We changed our handling of brand emblems for an issue. One now can select more than one brand emblem.
There will be cleanup of the existing combined brand emblems needed.
We also updated the list per brand emblem and its usages.
We recently added story arcs to our database. This is to group stories associated by some sort of title, which includes traditional story arcs, crossovers and events, whether identified by story titles, trade dress or other emblems. Will take some to populate the database, and we have not finally decided what all is considered a story arc. Click for current list of story arcs.
As a form of companion functionality, we added reading orders to our collection subsite my.comics.org. Any registered user can now create individual reading orders for any purpose. These can be made public for anyone to see, we might add search capabilities for reading orders at some point.
The milestone issue was Tex Willer Gigantbok #13 - Den siste opprøreren from Norwegian publisher Egmont.
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.
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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.