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Updates To The Site! (Early 2024)

We deployed a different handling of characters from DC and Marvel in recent weeks. We now can record the universe from which a character originates. In the editing workflow this replaces the different character versions.

Examples of characters with different universes are:

Additionally one now can add the DC and Marvel in which a story takes place. One then can also see in which universe a character appeared in, or which stories take place in a given universe.

Examples are:

Note that the most stories and characters are in the so-called mainstream universe. We do not want to track continuity, the mainstream universe is the at the time of publication standard universe for DC or Marvel, no matter the specific naming or continuity setup. In particular, no retroactive changes to the universe. Essentially, we want to be able to track stories and characters in DC or Marvel universes that are different from the standard universe. In other words, the mainstream universe is the default universe, unless a different universe is specified in the story or for the character.

We also added lists for characters, group and universes.

For publishers we added a list of creators that were published by it, e.g. for Norwegian publisher Hjemmet / Egmont.

That is in addition to all the other lists we added in the last year, where for navigation one often can further filter by country, language or publisher.

For all of these lists of course even more of our data needs to be migrated from text entries to linked records, or even entered at all. So, if you ever wondered about helping with the content of the database ?


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.

GCD Comics Timeline


Miguel Castro Rodríguez (b. 1959)

1959 March 29
https://www.tebeosfera.com/autores/castro_rodriguez_miguel.html

José González (b. 1939)

1939 March 29 - 2009 March 13
https://www.tebeosfera.com/autores/gonzalez_navarro_jose.html

Wayne Howard (b. 1949)

1949 March 29 - 2007 December 9
Additional biography:
An interview in Midnight Tales (Charlton, 1972 Series) #1 (December 1972).
Golden Age of Comic Fandom (Hamster Press, 1995 series), 1995.

Honors:
Best Student Cartoonist in U.S.A. (National Scholastic Press Association), circa 1967.

Fanzine:
Action Hero [amateur strips] (writer, pencils, and inks) mid-1960s.

Per-Inge Isheden (b. 1937)

1937 March 29
Swedish teacher, artist (painter) and comics creator.

Kiki (b. ????)

????? March 29
Kiki is the creator of the light novel series "Omae Gotoki ga Maō ni Kateru to Omou na" to Yuusha Party o Tsuihō Sareta node, Ōto de Kimama ni Kurashitai the Comic (「お前ごときが魔王に勝てると思うな」と勇者パーティを追放されたので、王都で気ままに暮らしたい THE COMIC / Roll Over and Die: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword!).

Perceval Landon (b. 1869)

1869 March 29 - 1927 January 23
English writer and journalist, best remembered for his classic ghost story "Thurnley Abbey".

Val Mayerik (b. 1950)

1950 March 29
Val Mayerik co-created Howard the Duck.

Additional biography found in:
David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview (Fictioneer Books, Ltd., 1983 Series) #15 (September 1984);
Magic L'Adunanza [Fantasy Magazine Magic] (Play Press, 1996 series) v1 (settembre 1996);
valmayerik.com (http://www.valmayerik.com/about).

Mayerik was an assistant to Dan Adkins in 1972.

Mayerik shared a studio with Howard Chaykin, Jim Starlin, and Walter Simonson which became Upstart Studios.

Val Mayerik's comic strip syndication work:
Howard the Duck daily pencil and ink (Register And Tribune Syndicate) 1977-10-10 - 1978-02-25 and
Howard the Duck Sunday pencil and ink (Register And Tribune Syndicate) 1977-11-13 - 1978-03-26

Linda Sunshine (b. 1948)

1948 March 29
Additional biographical information:
Prabook, "Linda Sunshine": https://prabook.com/web/linda.sunshine/3754117;
Publishers Weekly, "Meet Linda Sunshine, Groundbreaking Book Trade Comics Editor", by Rob Salkowitz, June 15, 2022: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/89594-meet-linda-sunshine-groundbreaking-book-trade-comics-editor.html.

赤井ヒガサ (b. ????)

????? March 29
Higasa Akai (赤井ヒガサ) is a manga artist and illustrator. She's known for the series Ōshitsu Kyōshi Haine (王室教師ハイネ) as well as Sōgiya Riddle (葬儀屋リドル) and Cucumber Sandwich (キューカンバー×サンドイッチ).

長岡太一 (b. ????)

????? March 29
Taichi Nagaoka (長岡太一) is a manga artist. Known for the series Kaette Kudasai! Akutsu-san (帰ってください! 阿久津さん).

How to Help

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 / JavaScript)
    • Python / Django programming
    • ElasticSearch search server
    • Web Services API
    • Database Performance (MySQL)
Disclaimer
The Grand Comics Database Project (GCD) is a volunteer project with the goal of documenting and indexing all comics for the free use of scholars, historians, researchers, and fans.
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.
The Grand Comics Database Team
Statistics
16,273 publishers
73,251 creators
201,215 series
2,041,229 issues
189,918 variant issues
448,056 issue indexes
1,207,086 covers
3,888,339 stories