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GCD Comics Timeline
1967 August 31

Assistant to managing editor at Archie, Mamaroneck, New York, 1990-1993; editorial assistant, Scholastic, Inc., New York City, 1994-1995; assistant editor, Daniel Weiss Associations, New York City, 1995-??. Has been listed as a noteworthy editor by Marquis Who's Who.

1967 August 31

Ulli Lust is an Austrian cartoonist. She became internationally known with her autobiographical graphic novel Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens, published in 2009 in German and translated in several languages. In 2013, Lust published an adaptation of Marcel Beyer's 1995 novel, Flughunde, which presents a fictional account of Helga Goebbels, the daughter of German World War II minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels. In 2017 she published with Wie ich versuchte, ein guter Mensch zu sein another autobiographical graphic novel. For her book Die Frau als Mensch. Am Anfang der Geschichte, published in 2025, Ulli Lust was awarded the German Non-Fiction Prize in the same year, the first time for a comic.

She holds a professorship at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover, Germany.

1982 August 31

G. Willow Wilson is an American comics writer, prose author, and essayist. Her prose works include the novels Alif the Unseen (2012) and The Bird King (2019). She was in charge of the relaunch of the Ms. Marvel title for Marvel Comics, starring a 16-year-old Muslim superhero named Kamala Khan.

Her first graphic novel, Cairo, with art by M.K. Perker, was published by Vertigo in 2007, and named one of the best graphic novels of 2007 by Publishers Weekly. Her first ongoing comic series, Air, launched by Vertigo in 2008 reunited her with Perker. In 2014, Marvel debuted a new Ms. Marvel series written by Wilson. The book stars Kamala Khan, a Muslim teenager living in Jersey City, New Jersey. More recently, Wilson wrote Wonder Woman, The Dreaming: Waking Hours, and Poison Ivy for DC.

1982 August 30

Jordan Blum is an American comics and television writer. His work includes M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games (Marvel, 2021 series), written with Patton Oswalt. He was an showrunner and executive producer on the animated series Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. (2021). With Patton Oswalt he also worked on the comic Minor Threats.

1943 August 30

Robert Crumb is an American comic artist. Crumb contributed to many of the seminal works of the underground comix movement in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, Zap Comix, contributing to all 16 issues. He introduced a wide variety of characters that became extremely popular, including countercultural icons Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural, and the images from his Keep On Truckin' strip. Sexual themes abounded in all these projects, often shading into scatological and pornographic comics.

Following the decline of the underground, he moved towards biographical and autobiographical subjects while refining his drawing style, a heavily crosshatched pen-and-ink style inspired by late 19th- and early 20th-century cartooning. In 2009 Crumb produced The Book of Genesis, an unabridged illustrated graphic novel version of the biblical Book of Genesis.

In 1994 the Terry Zwigoff film Crumb explored his artistic career and personal life.

1981 August 30

Javier Garrón is a Spanish comic artist. He entered the American comic industry through DC, drawing single issues and one-shots. Soon he moved to Marvel, first working on Cyclops, and then collaborating on other series, such as Star-Lord, Secret Warriors, and Ant Man and the Wasp, among other minor collaborations.

In 2019, he started to draw one of the company's flagship series: Miles Morales: Spider-Man, moved to Avengers in 2020 for three years, before moving to Uncanny X-Men.

1946 August 30 - 2004 January 6

Hewetson, a Scottish-Canadian creator, worked in support as an assistant editor, assistant to Stan Lee at Marvel during 1969. He also worked in support as an associated editor for Skywald in 1972. For Skywald, Hewetson was an editor on Nightmare (1970 series) from 1972 to 1975, Psycho (1971 series) from 1971 to 1975, and Scream (1973 series) from 1973 to 1975. He also edited specials and yearbooks for those series.

During his career, Hewetson worked as a writer for DC from 1969 to 1971, Feature Comics' Sick magazine from 1969 to past 1971, Major Magazines' Cracked Magazine from 1969 to past 1971, Marvel from 1969 to 1971, Skywald from 1970 to 1975, and Warren from 1970 to 1973.

Before his time in comic books, Hewetson worked as a darkroom technician and photographer for the Sudbury Star (Sudbury, Ontario) circa before 1965, the Ottawa Journal (Ottawa, Ontario) from about 1965 to 1966, and the Montreal Gazette (Montreal, Quebec) around 1966. Part of his duties including writing captions for the photographs. He also did photographic work for the Canadian Press (Ottawa, Ontario) during an unknown period of time.

From 1966 to 1967, Hewetson worked for the 1967 International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67 in Montreal. By the middle of 1967, he began his own advertising and photography company in Ottawa which he did promotional work for rock groups, ending in 1968. Among the people, Hewetson photographed was Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. His work with Diefenbaker led to being a photo editor of at least one Diefenbaker's memoirs, circa 1975 to 1977.

In high school, Hewetson published two issues of an EC fanzine, Potrzebie (not to be confused with the 1950s Ted White fanzine), 400 copies of each issue at 2.00 CAD each.

In 1991, Hewetson co-owned The Little Shop of Gifts in Windsor, Ontario, which focused on the craftworks of Windsor and Essex County artists.

Syndication work:
Dirty Soks (self-syndicated ?) 1972 - 1974 [Writer.];
Satirists (self-syndicated) (1971) [Writer, attempted to syndicate in Canada but not enough papers were interested so it was not actually syndicated.]; and
Tales of the Macabre daily and Sunday (self-syndicated ?) 1972 - 1974 [Writer.].

1893 August 30 - 1966 December 20

Lebeck was born in Germany. Moving to the United States in 1930 he did stage design for the Broadway productions of Florenz Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll. By the mid-1930s he was working as an industrial designer of textiles and furniture while also writing (and sometimes illustrating) children's books, mostly for Grosset & Dunlap.

In 1938 Western Publishing hired him as an art director/managing editor to help launch its line of comic books, financed and distributed by Dell. Lebeck oversaw Western's New York editorial office. Notably he hired Walt Kelly and John Stanley.

Lebeck left Western in 1949, although he continued to work for the company as a consultant. While semi-retired he teamed with artist Alden McWilliams to launch on June 16, 1952 the science fiction daily comic strip Twin Earths (with a Sunday version added March 1, 1953). In 1957 Lebeck retired fully and McWilliams assumed scripting duties for the strip.

1946 August 30

Jacques Tardi is a French comic artist. After graduating from the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, he started drawing comics in 1969, at the age of 23, in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote, initially illustrating short stories written by Jean Giraud and Serge de Beketch, before creating the political fiction story Rumeur sur le Rouergue from a scenario by Pierre Christin in 1972.

He made his breakthrough in the mid-1970s with his comic series Les Aventures extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec, in which his enormous attention to detail in illustrating the urban landscapes of Paris and the technology of the early 20th century is evident.

Tardi especially gained fame and recognition with his graphic novels about the horror and misery of The First World War, like C'était la guerre des tranchées. Another major focus of his work is adaptations of crime stories set against a historical backdrop, in particular Tardi is known for his adaptations of Nestor Burma written by Léo Malet.

1971 August 30

Manga artist who started in 1994 with the pen name Mikan Momokuri (桃栗みかん). She began using the name Mizuki Kawashita (河下水希) in 2000, but has since returned to the previous name at least part of the time. Her works include Strawberry 100% (いちご100%), First Love Limited (初恋限定), Anedoki (あねどきっ) and others.

Multiple Names for Features

Features can now have several names, these can be used if the difference in the names is significant. For example, this goes for Captain Marvel/Shazam! or different translated names for a feature.

Indexing Milestone!

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We reached 500,000 indexed issues !

The milestone issue was Silver Flash #41 from Australian publisher Invincible Press.

Uploading Milestone!

Cover Image

We reached 1,350,000 comic covers !

The milestone cover was the variant cover by Mark Buckingham for the issue Black Cat #4 published by Marvel.

Additional Lists

We added overview lists of character appearances in a group, e.g., Captain America and vice versa, e.g., The Avengers. You can also get a list of issues where Iron Man appeared as a member of the Avengers.

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.

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.

No More Ads!

Due to a United States IRS ruling regarding advertising revenue as taxable business income, we will no longer be displaying paid advertising on the website.

This is good news for all our users, but we are now fully dependent on donations to cover our costs in the future.

If you wish to donate you can simply click , where for US donors this is tax deductable. Thank you for your use and support.
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The GCD acknowledges that the all-encompassing research nature of the project may result in the posting of cover scans for comics with images that some may find objectionable.
Viewer discretion is advised.
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Cloudflare

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Turning off these measures is not an option for us. Our site would be regularly unresponsive due to the bots (which are often AI-related bots).

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How to Contribute

There are several ways in which you can help us to improve our site and its content.

  • You can provide missing data, update existing data, or upload cover scans. Just register an account with us, and you can start contributing.
  • Donate for our ongoing costs, e.g. the server infrastructure. We are a non-profit organization and any funds will be used for our goal of documenting and indexing all comics.
  • We need volunteer web designers and programmers! Please contact the gcd-tech group or visit our technical documentation if you can help with any of these roles:
    • Web designer / front-end developer (HTML / CSS / Tailwind / JavaScript)
    • Python / Django programming
    • ElasticSearch search server
    • Web Services API
    • Database Performance (MySQL)

Data Access via API - Structured Data Import

We have developedan initial version of an API for our site. While the API endpoints URLs are stable, the provided fields and data format should not be considered stable as this point.

More information is at our github page.

Further development of the API depends on user feedback and contributions.

An import of issue and story data in JSON/YAML-format is now available, independent of the API.

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.
Last Updated Issues
Statistics
17,690 publishers
112,550 creators
229,482 series
2,201,757 issues
250,634 variant issues
501,473 issue indexes
1,366,246 covers
4,538,063 stories
International Statistics
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
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