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GCD Comics Timeline
1907 December 26 - 1981 October day?

Syndication:
Crack-Ups [Sunday] (writer/pencil/ink) 1943-48 alternated creators daily; for Field Enterprises '43-45; Newspaper PM '45-48
Of All Things (writer/pencil/ink) circa 1954 - circa 1955.

1914 December 26 - 1995 April 6

Additional biographical information can be found in Women and the Comics (Eclipse Books, 1985) by Trina Robbins and cat yronwode.

1900 December 25 - 1962 September 4

Clem Boddington did sports-centric cartoons, illustrations, and comics for Street and Smith from about 1947 to about 1949.

Clem did cartoons for the Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) during 1926. He did sports cartoons for the Brooklyn Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) during 1927. Boddington was a sports cartoonist for the Brooklyn Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York) during 1928. His sports cartoons in the 1920s were sometimes used to replace Robert Ripley's sports cartoons in the newspapers. He was a sports cartoonist and writer for magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.

He did cartoons and was assistant to the editor for publications created by the Brooklyn-based alcohol manufacturer Austin, Nichols, Inc. during the 1940s.

Boddington's Sports Oddities cartoon was recorded for National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in 1942.

Clem Boddington was a boxing promoter in the Manhattan, New York area during the 1940s. He did Sports Oddities calendars based on his cartoon feature by the same name starting in 1953 and continuing into the 1960s. His sports cartoon series, "Names to Remember" was also made into a calendar in 1947. He also did the artwork for other calendars, including one about American History in which he was awarded a 1955 Freedom Award from the Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge in 1956.

Clem was a member of the Catholic Guild of the Liquor, Beer and Wine Industry.

1911 December 25 - 1996 January 28

Other career notes:
Co-founder and Teacher: School of Visual Arts (Cartoonists and Illustrators School), 1947-1970.
Teacher: Academy of Newspaper Art, New York City (founder), 1944-1946.
Teacher: Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, 1981-1996.
Teacher: Art History through the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), 1933-1934.
Teacher: Parsons School of Design, New York City, 1976-1979.
Painter: exhibits: Musée des Arts Decoratifs at the Louvre in Paris, France.

Other biographical sources:
World Encyclopedia of Comics, 1976, 1998.
Cartoonist PROfiles, 1977.
Comics Scene Magazine #5, September 1982 (interview).
The Comics Journal #166-167, 1994.
Comics Buyer's Guide, August 23, 1996 (obituary).
Comics Forum [U.K.] #10, Spring 1996.
A Gallery of Rogues: Cartoonists' Self-Caricatures, 1998.
Ink-Slinger Profiles by Alex Jay in The Stripper's Guide blog, March 11, 2015.
lambiek.net and wikipedia.org

Syndication comic work:
various features (Associate Editors Syndicate) 1926 (art assistant).
Famous Churches of the World daily panel (Associate Editors Syndicate) 1926 (writer, pencils, and inks).
Ivy Hemmanhaw Say daily (Bonnet-Brown Syndicate), 1932-1933 (reportedly created in 1929, saw publication in 1932-1933, writer, pencils, and inks).
Odd Occupations and Strange Accidents daily ? (Ledd Features Syndicate) 1930 (writer, pencils, and inks).
various features (King Features Syndicate) 1934 (on staff, pencils and inks).
Pieces of Eight daily (McNaught Syndicate) 1935-1936 (pencils and inks).
Tarzan Sunday (United Feature Syndicate) 1937-1945, 1981 (reprints) (pencils and inks).
Drago Sunday (New York Post Syndicate) 1945-1946 (writer, pencils, and inks).
Miracle Jones Sunday (United Feature Syndicate) 1947-1948 (writer, pencils, and inks).
Tarzan Sunday (United Feature Syndicate) 1947-1950 (writer, pencils, and inks).
Tarzan daily (United Feature Syndicate) 1972-1973 (pencils and inks).

1906 December 25 - 1999 July 16

Roman was an advertising man and later President of the Charles Atlas, Limited corporation from 1929 to 1997 and the man who wrote, possibly drew the Charles Atlas comic advertisement The Insult that Made a Man out of Mac, which appears for decades in comic books.

Further biographical information:
New York Times, Charles Roman, the Brains Behind the Brawn, Dies at 92, by Eric Pace, July 20, 1999, Section B, Page 9, via https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/20/business/charles-roman-the-brains-behind-the-brawn-dies-at-92.html.

1920 December 25 - 2009 October 10

Worked support as a letterer at Fawcett early 1940s most likely, at DC circa 1944 to 1954, at Harvey 1950s to circa 1979, and at Marvel 1968 to 1995.

1950 December 25

Ashura Benimaru Itoh (伊藤あしゅら紅丸) is a cartoonist, illustrator, musician and video game designer with a wide variety of credits to his name. Among his comics credits are the Star Fox and Super Metroid series that appeared in Nintendo Power magazine in the nineties. He also did the Pokémon newspaper strip that was collected in the "Pikachu Meets the Press" book as well as the Japan-only release Mother 2: Gyiyg Strikes Back: Ness's Adventure Chronicles (マザー2 ギーグの逆襲 ネスの冒険記).

Among the pen names he has used are Ashura Itoh (伊藤あしゅら) and Ashura Benimaru (あしゅら紅丸).

1880 December 24 - 1938 January 9

Gruelle is most famously known as the creator of the Raggedy Ann, Raggedy Andy, and Beloved Belindy dolls.

John also ran his own studio some time period before his death. Studio probably continued by John's brother Justin.

Gruelle did political and sports cartoons for the Indianapolis Star and the Indianapolis Daily Sentinel in the early 1900s. By 1903 he worked himself up to assistant illustrator for the Star. From 1906 to 1912, John's cartoons appeared in newspapers throughout the country under the signed pen name Grue. In the 1900s and 1910, he worked on several short lived comic strips, longest of which was Mister Tweedeedle. By 1915, Gruelle had patented Raggedy Ann. John illustrated numerous books during his lifetime, especially Raggedy Ann.

Comic strip syndication:
Adam and Eve, or Life In the Garden of Eden daily (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1907-02-18 - 1907-03-04 (script, pencil, and ink);
The Artless Answer panel (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1909-08-06 - 1910-06-03 (script, pencil, and ink) [Ran during the weekday, from two to five times a week.];
Before the Flood panel (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1908-09-10 - 1908-10-02 (script, pencil, and ink) [Ran first as a daily panel, then less than a daily over time as a weekday panel.];
Brutus Sunday (New York Herald-Tribune) 1929-11-17 - 1938-02-26 (script, pencil, ink, lettering, and coloring);
Bud Smith, The Boy Who Does Stunts Sunday (World Color Printing) 1908-08-23 - 1909-01-31, 1909-02-14 - 1909-02-28, 1909-04-25 (script, pencil, ink, and coloring);
Careless Sports weekly panel (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1909-02-12 - 1909-01-16 (script, pencil, and ink) [Panel ran about once a week.];
Concerning About Some Prehistoric Freaks weekly panel (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1908-10-30 - 1908-11-25 (script, pencil, and ink) [Panel ran about once a week.];
Cousin Bud Sunday (World Color Printing) 1905-04-30 - 1905-09-03 (script, pencil, ink, and coloring);
Grue's Prehistoric Grotesques panel (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1909-05-03 - 1909-05-29 (script, pencil, and ink) [Ran during the weekday, several times a week.];
Handy Andy Sunday (World Color Printing) 1908-11-01 - 1909-01-31 (script, pencil, ink, and coloring);
Highbrow Nursery Lore panel (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1909-05-07 - 1909-07-03 (script, pencil, and ink) [Ran during the weekday, four to five times a week. Worked under the Waldo Bostonbeans pen name.];
Hilee Hilo in Amsterdam daily (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1908-09-15 - 1908-12-07 (script, pencil, and ink);
Little Mothers daily panel (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1909-11-16 - 1909-11-16 (script, pencil, and ink);
Mister Tweedeedle [Mr. Twee Deedle] Sunday (The New York Herald Company) 1911-02-05 - 1918-08-15 (script, pencil, ink, and coloring);
Nevermind (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1908-12-16 - 1909-01-16 (script, pencil, and ink) [Ran during the weekday, three to four times a week.];
Not Yet! (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1909-02-02 - 1909-02-15 (script, pencil, and ink) [Appeared only three times.];
Pests of Summertime panel (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1910-07-14 - 1910-08-10 (script, pencil, and ink) [Ran about once a week.];
A Purse-ery Rhyme for Common People daily panel (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1910-01-05 - 1910-01-13 script, pencil, and ink);
Raggedy Ann daily panel (George Matthew Adams Service) 1934-06-11 - 1938-02-05 (script, pencil, ink, and lettering);
T. R. In... daily panel (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1910-03-16 - 1910-03-28 (script, pencil, and ink);
Then and Now (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1908-11-12 - 1908-12-22 (script, pencil, and ink) [Ran about every two to four days.];
What the Keen Eyes of Artist Gruelle Saw weekly (The New York Herald Company) 1912-08-04 - 1912-08-18 (script, pencil, and ink) [Full page panels.];
The World, the Flesh and the Baby daily panel (Newspaper Enterprise Association [NEA]) 1909-10-19 - 1909-10-22 (pencil and ink) [Worked with Edmund Vance, writer. Printed prose panels.]

1958 December 24

Tim Harkins is a long-time letterer, primarily for DC, starting in 1982 and continuing to present day. Harkins, early in his comics career, did pencil and ink work for DC in 1984; 4Winds, during 1987; and Eclipse, from 1986 to 1987. He also did ink only work for Eclipse in 1987; Bongo in 1995; and Image in 1996. Along with lettering, Hawkins assisted on the feature Scout for Eclipse, from 1988 to 1989.

Tim also did support work as letterer for Pacific in 1983; Hypergraphics, from 1985 to 1987; Eclipse, from 1985 to 1992; Dark Horse in 1987; Triad, from 1987 to 1989; Marvel, from 1988 to 1991; Heroic, from 1988 to 1993; Innovation, from 1989 to 1990; Disney, from 1990 to 1991; Welsh Publishing Group in 1993; Big Entertainment, from 1995 to 1996; and Amalgam (joint DC and Marvel) in 1997.

1950 December 24

Né à Tourane (Đà Nẵng depuis 1963) au Viêt Nam, Vinh Khoa effectua sa scolarité au collège français. Après le lycée, il effectua un an de journalisme à l'université bouddhique de Saïgon (1968-1969), puis s'installa à Liège où il étudia la médecine durant un an. Il étudia cinq ans à l'Université de Liège et obtint une licence et une agrégation en sciences de l'éducation, avant de s'inscrire à l'Académie royale des beaux-arts de Liège où il resta de 1974 à 1977. Il y rencontra Claudine qui deviendra son épouse et collaboratrice sous le pseudonyme Cine. Après avoir réalisé quelques illustrations professionnelles, Vinh Khoa, qui a pris le pseudonyme Vink, entra à Tintin où il publia des contes viêtnamiens adaptés en bande dessinée de 1979 à 1983 (recueil de ces histoires publié aux éditions du Lombard en 1983). Sa série qui l'a rendu célèbre est Le Moine fou. Sa dernière bande dessinée parue, scénarisée par Rodolphe, "Le Temps perdu", fut publiée aux éditions Daniel Maghen en 2014. Daniel Maghen lui avait consacré une exposition rétrospective en 2008. Ensuite, il prit sa retraite. Vink réalise également de nombreux tableaux et aquarelles. En outre, il a réalisé les affiches des festivals de bande dessinée de Laval en 2002 et Bourges en 2004.

Multiple Brand Emblems per Issue

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.

Story Arcs and Reading Orders

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.

Uploading Milestone!

Cover Image

We reached 1,300,000 comic covers !

The milestone cover was the variant cover by Jim Mahfood for the issue Spider-Punk: Arms Race #2 .

Indexing Milestone!

Cover Image

We reached 475,000 indexed issues !

The milestone issue was Tex Willer Gigantbok #13 - Den siste opprøreren from Norwegian publisher Egmont.

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.

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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.
Statistics
17,353 publishers
98,647 creators
221,062 series
2,161,788 issues
231,515 variant issues
484,617 issue indexes
1,321,924 covers
4,337,788 stories
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