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1949 February 12 - 2017 July 18

Stanislas Barets, formé en politique et en économie, diplômé de Cambridge, est traducteur, écrivain, critique, libraire, et un spécialiste français de la science-fiction.
Stan Barets est le fondateur en 1973, avec son épouse Sophie, de la librairie parisienne Temps Futurs, spécialisée dans la science-fiction. Il a collaboré aux principaux magazines du genre : "Fiction", "Univers", "Science-Fiction" magazine et "Métal hurlant". Il dirigea également les magazines de bande dessinée "Circus" et "Vécu" chez Glénat. Il fut aussi rédacteur en chef de "Playboy" et le premier traducteur (de l'anglais vers le français) de la série japonaise Akira. Pour Hachette, il participa à la rédaction de l’encyclopédie "Planète BD".

1910 February 12 - 1944 May 29

Additional biography found at:
Stars and Stripes (1942 series), obituary, June 3, 1944;
Hogan's Alley, by Rob Stolzer, "Gregor Duncan: Pictures of Life" via https://www.hoganmag.com/blog/gregor-duncan-pictures-of-life;
Ron Goulart's Comics History Magazine (Goulart Publishing Empire, 1996 series) #3 (Spring 1997);

Gregor Duncan, as Greg Duncan, did pencil and ink work for Fawcett on the features Dan Dare, from 1940 to 1941; and on both Golden Arrow and Scoop Smith during 1940. Per Jerry Bails' Who's Who, Duncan also did support work as an editor under the Dell banner (Racine, Wisconsin) for Western Publishing, from 1940 to 1943.

His first professional work was for the Sausalito (California) News, from about 1923 to 1928. Gregor continued to then work the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, from 1928 to about 1933, doing mostly sports cartoons and some political cartoons and courtroom drawings.

Duncan then moved to New York City to work for the original Life magazine (Life Publishing Company, 1883 series) as an editorial cartoonist in 1933 until the magazine folded in 1936. From 1936 onward, Gregor worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for numerous magazines, mostly on sporting themes.

In March 1936, he was a founding member of the Cartoonists' Guild, the predecessor of the National Cartoonists Society. From 1939 to 1942, Gregor illustrated a total of nine books.

Duncan worked as an illustrator and journalist for the New York City newspaper PM (Ralph Ingersoll, 1940 series) from June 1940 up to 1943, under the pen name of George Dickson.

Gregor was drafted into the Army Air Corps on July 9, 1942, and did cartooning work during basic training in New Jersey for the military paper, BEAM, which included a comic panel, At Ease. Shortly thereafter he produced training manuals for the Army Air Force and eventually worked public relations.

Duncan joined Stars and Stripes (Mediterranean Division) on December 14, 1943 where he did cartoon panels and the comic strip, Close Order Close-Ups.

Gregor Duncan was killed by the wounds he received from a German 88 mm shell near the town of Cori, Italy on May 29, 1944.

1927 February 12 - 2009 October 25

Remo Forlani est un écrivain, dramaturge, critique de cinéma, parolier, scénariste de bande dessinée, acteur et réalisateur. Il a usé de divers pseudonyme pour signer ses histoires dans le journal de bande dessinée "Chouchou" : Roberto Scarlatti, Momo, Nick Filderman.

1976 February 12

Brian Shearer's first work was the independent creator-owned comic GravyBoy first published in 2004 by Jack Rabbit Stewdios. Since then his comic work has included, Doctor Who, G.I. Joe, Transformers and DC’s Online Universe. In 2008 Brian joined Tsunami Studios.

1970 February 12

Additional biographic information can be found:
San Diego Souvenir Book (Comic Con International, 2001 series).
Encyclopedia of World Biography (https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2005-Pu-Z/Winick-Judd.html).
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judd_Winick).

Creator of Nuts and Bolts and Frumpy the Clown comic strips; Barry Ween, Boy Genius in comic books; and The Life and Times of Juniper Lee in television animation.

Best known for his time as a cast member of the third season of the MTV show, Real World, in 1994 and for the creation of the graphic novel, "Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned (Henry Holt and Co., 2000 series) about his fellow castmate Pedro Zamora. Winnick also illustrated over 300 "A Complete Idiot's Guide to..." books starting in 1994.

Comic strip work includes:
Nuts and Bolts (Michigan Daily [University of Michigan]) circa 1988 - circa 1992 (writer, pencils, and inks).
Nuts and Bolts weekly (San Francisco Examiner) March 1994 - ? (writer, pencils, and inks).
Frumpy the Clown daily and Sunday (Creators Syndicate) 1996-07-10 - 1998-06-07 (writer, pencils, and inks).

1962 February 11 - 2019 May 13

Most commonly credited under the name Shon Howell, he was a long-time contributor to various Antarctic Press and Radio Comix titles. Howell's work was primarily anthropomorphic, and he was a prolific contributor to Furrlough and Genus.

1966 February 11

Leandro Luigi Del Manto é um dos editores mais importantes da história dos quadrinhos americanos no Brasil: trabalhou na redação de heróis da Abril no final da década de 80, e é um dos principais responsáveis pela publicação da série completa de Sandman, de Neil Gaiman e Dave McKean pela editora Globo -- em um período particularmente difícil para se publicar hqs adultas no Brasil.

1941 February 11

Jan Lennart Stenmark, född 11 februari 1949 i Sankt Olai församling i Norrköping, är en svensk skämttecknare. Han studerade på Konstfack 1975–79 och är känd från Aftonbladets kultursidor. Stenmark utmärker sig med sin speciella collageteknik där bilder (främst från 1940–60-talet) åtföljs av ironiska och underfundiga kommentarer.I september 2007 utsågs han till månadens stockholmare av Stockholms stad.

1915 February 11 - 2005 April 28

Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Zekley was hired first as a cartoonist for the tabloid newspaper, the Detroit Mirror (at the time owned by the owners of the The Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News, Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson). He worked there until the newspaper went out of business in August 1932.

After the Detroit Mirror folded, Zekley continued freelancing work in Detroit, especially for what he referred to as "a ginger-ale client", most likely the local company, Vernors Ginger Ale. In 1935 Zekley moved to California to work for Disney, but was laid off after a couple months of work.

Zekley then met Charles McManus, brother of Bringing up Father creator George McManus. He then began his career as McManus' assistant, at first doing lettering and inking on the strips. Over time Zekley took over more and more of the comic strip, often penciling and writing as well as inking and lettering. When McManus died on October 22, 1954, King Features Syndicate passed him over for Vernon Greene to continue the comic strip.

Zekley tried his own comic strip, Dud Dudley, through McNaught Syndicate, but it lasted only from June 6 to November 19, 1955. He also worked on a comic panel called Paps Younger in 1961 (syndicate unknown and syndication uncertain) and by 1967, another comic panel called Popsie, which is known to have appeared in the newspaper, Pacific Stars and Stripes.

Zekley did the cartoons for the National Broadcasting Company television show, The Tab Hunter Show, from 1960 to 1961. Hunter played the role of a cartoonist for the show.

During the 1950s, Zekley had started Sponsored Comics, which created promotional comics and comic strips using his work and the work from other creators. Sponsored also did Family Comics, a pre-packaged comic section designed for Californian supermarkets. Many of the comic strips in Family Comics were also promoted as being available for syndication, but only one strip, Kippy, is known to have been syndicated. He worked on the strip, Peachie Keen for Family Comics. His most well known comic book Sponsored worked on was McDonaldland Comics (McDonalds, 1976 ? series).

For about 10 years starting around 1972, he did cartoons for The Squirrel's Club Magazine with the Glendale Federal Savings and Loan. The Squirrel's Club was a savings account club designed for children.

In the late 1970s, Zekley's Sponsored Comics got the contract to do PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly (Department of the Army, 1951 series). He did the work for several months before Zekley allowed it to revert back to its previous contract holder, Murphy Anderson.

During his lifetime, Zekley also painted murals. One was a series of murals called Murals without Morals. He even painted a mural on actor Clark Gable's ranch house in 1940. He also is known to have done the occasional editorial cartoon during the 1960s. Zekley is reported to have been a production assistant for the Jiggs and Maggie films for Monogram Pictures in the late 1940's and did animation production from 1955 to 1959.

1969 February 11

Takeshi Obata (小畑健) is a manga artist on titles like Hikaru no Go (ヒカルの碁), Death Note (デスノート / Desu Nōto), Bakuman (バクマン。), Platinum End (プラチナエンド / Purachina Endo), School Judgement: Gakkyu Hotei (学糾法廷, Gakkyū Hōtei) and the manga adaptation of All You Need Is Kill (オール・ユー・ニード・イズ・キル / Ōru Yū Nīdo Izu Kiru).

Uploading Milestone!

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We reached 1,325,000 comic covers !

The milestone cover was the cover by Mathieu Lampron for the issue Le démon du hockey published by Glénat Québec.

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.

Indexing Milestone!

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We reached 475,000 indexed issues !

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

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