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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.

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GCD Comics Timeline

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Ned Dameron (b. 1943)

1943 May 7
Additional biographical information:
Wikipedia, "Ned Dameron" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Dameron

Paul Mounts (b. 1964)

1964 May 7
Paul Mounts is a colorist whose work appeared in comic books from the late 1980s into the 2020s.

He did support work as a colorist for Acclaim / Valiant in 1995; Black Bull from 2000 to 2002, Continuity Comics from 1989 to 1993; CrossGen from 2001 to 2002; Dark Horse from 1996 to 1997, from 2011 to 2013, and in 2018; DC in 1993, and from 2000 to present (as of 2022); Dynamite Entertainment in 2007, 2009, and from 2014 to 2015; Eclipse Comics from 1991 to 1992; First Comics from 1989 to 1991; Image from 1992 to 1994, from 1997 to 2005, from 2010 to 2014, in 2016, and from 2018 to 2019; Majestic Entertainment in 1993; Malibu Comics from 1989 to 1993; Marvel from 1989 to 1996 and from 1999 to present (as of 2022); New Comics Group in 1989; Now Comics from 1987 to 1992; Quantum Cat Entertainment in 1998; Starlog Communications in 1992; Topps Comics in 1993; and TSR in 1990.

Mounts was also the owner of the Bongotone studio, which did editing work for Dark Horse in 1996.

Waldo Van Gheluwe (b. 1949)

1949 May 7
Van Gheluwe, son of expressionist painter Stefaan Van Gheluwe (1906-1963) is self-taught. He was first published in the early 1980s in the magazine 'Magnum'. Failing to find a larger audience, Van Gheluwe stopped doing comics altogether and turned to painting. In 2007 he returned to comics, where he has since become quite prolific. At a rate of an album a year, he has produced 'De overlevenden van Kish', 'Eridu', 'De Schim' (with writer Filip Hellemans) and short stories for the western character Viking Cowboy in anthology 'Sheriff Classics' (with Ramon Schenk).

Rick Veitch (b. 1951)

1951 May 7
Personal email exchange with Rick Veitch on Who is Marvin Kilroy?
"On Aug 16, 2020, at 10:49 PM,
'Rick, I was updating the 1963 entries in the grand comic database and noticed that Marvin Kilroy is a pseudonym. After 25+ years, it might be time to let the cat out of the bag.
Since he only worked on issues you worked on, I am guessing you know him quite well...wink, wink, nod, nod. Hope you can help, Ron Sadowski'

From: Rick Veitch
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 7:21 AM
To: Ron S
Subject: Re: Who is Marvin Kilroy?
''Twas I.
Say no more, sahib!'
Rick"


Rick assisted Al Williamson on backgrounds and lettering on "The Empire Strikes Back" movie adaptation starting in Star Wars (Marvel, 1977 Series) #39 (September 1980). He also assisted Steve Bissette with pencils for The Saga of Swamp Thing (DC, 1982 series) circa 1983.

At some point during his career, Veitch shared a studio with Steve Bissette, Tom Yeates, and John Totleben.

Rick Veitch did support work as a letterer for Spiderbaby Grafix in 1993. He was also the publisher and editor for the Spiderbaby Grafix imprint King Hell from 1989 to 1997. Veitch also did support work as a colorist for Western from 1980 to 1981 and for Eclipse from 1985 to 1986.

Jean Frisano (b. 1927)

1927 May 6 - 1987 August 8
Jean Frisano est un peintre, dessinateur et illustrateur français, né le 6 mai 1927 à Gagny et mort le 8 août 1987 à Velleron (Vaucluse). Il est surtout connu pour son rôle de passeur de culture. En effet c'est grâce à son travail sur les couvertures mettant en scène des super-héros qu'il popularisa ces personnages, alors peu connu du public français, en les mettant en valeur pour Strange et d'autres revues des éditions Lug dans les années 1960-1980.

Vilhelm Hansen (b. 1900)

1900 May 6 - 1992 December 23
Vilhelm Hansen and Carla Hansen were an artistic couple. He was a trained lithographist, while she was a writer. Vilhelm worked mainly as an advertising artist between the two World Wars, and only started making comics and illustrating the tales written by Carla in the 1940s.

Their collaborative comic Rasmus Klump, about the adventures of a bear, a pelican, a penguin, and some other animals, debuted in Denmark on November 17, 1951, as a daily comic strip. It soon became one of the most popular European children comics, being translated and distributed into many languages and countries, mainly by the publishing houses Carlsen Comics and Casterman. While they no longer wrote or drew the stories after 1965, it was their names that stayed on the albums.

Lin Streeter (b. 1915)

1915 May 6 - 1968 October 18
Syndication work:
- Gripes and Grins daily (The Associated Newspapers) 1945-XX-XX - 1945-XX-XX [daily panel was done while a Corporal in the U.S. Army stationed in Europe. Appeared in military newspapers only?].
- Sergeant Stony Craig daily (Bell Syndicate) 1946-07-15 - 1946-12-14 [end of comic strip].

Streeter enlisted in the U.S. Army on April 3, 1942, at Newark, New Jersey. Previously, he enlisted in the New York City National Guard on December 19, 1935. During his time in the service, Lin was the staff cartoonist for the 22nd Infantry's mimeographed newspaper/newsletter, "The Double Deucer".

W. W. Denslow (b. 1856)

1856 May 5 - 1915 March 29
W. W. Denslow is best known for his illustration of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum. He also created the comic strip, Billy Bounce (McClure Syndicate) Sunday only strip. Denslow wrote, penciled, and inked the comic strip from 1901-11-10 - 1905-12-03.

Floyd Gottfredson (b. 1905)

1905 May 5 - 1986 July 22
Arthur Floyd Gottfredson (May 5, 1905 — July 22, 1986) was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip. He learned cartooning via a correspondence course and was working as a cartoonist for trade magazines and a local Salt Lake City paper by the late '20s. In 1928 he moved to southern California, and in 1929 he was hired as an in-betweener by the Disney Studio.

In early 1930, a few months after the launch of the Mickey Mouse newspaper strip, Ub Iwerks and Win Smith, the original artists, left Disney, and Gottfredson was asked by Walt Disney to take over on a temporary basis. Shortly after, Disney, who had been writing the stip, asked Gottfedson to take over that aspect as well. Gottfredson was later asked to take on the Sunday strip as well, and was eventually promoted to head of the Disney comics department, overseeing the Mickey daily and Sunday strips, the Donald Duck daily and Sunday, and the Silly Symphonies Sunday. He usually plotted and pencilled the Mickey strips, but relied on assistants to handle the writing and inking. He pencilled the strip until his retirement in 1975.

Greg (b. 1931)

1931 May 5 - 1999 October 29
Greg fut dessinateur, scénariste, rédacteur en chef et directeur littéraire de bande dessinée. De nationalité belge, il fut naturalisé français. Avec plus de 250 albums à son actif, en tant que dessinateur et (ou) scénariste, il fait partie des créateurs les plus prolifiques de la bande dessinée franco-belge.
[Greg was a comics penciller and writer, editor-in-chief and literary director for comics publishers. Of Belgian nationality, he was naturalized French. With more than 250 albums to his credit, as a cartoonist and (or) screenwriter, he is one of the most prolific creators of Franco-Belgian comics.]