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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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Charles Baskerville Jr. (b. 1896)

1896 April 16 - 1994 November 20
Baskerville was an illustrator, painter and muralist, known for his portraits. He served in World War I as a lieutenant in the Rainbow Division and earned a Silver Star for gallantry. He served again in World War II as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army Air Force; he was the Air Force's official portrait painter and was awarded the Legion of Merit by General Henry H. Arnold.

Charlie Chaplin (b. 1889)

1889 April 16 - 1977 December 25
An actor and composer who was one of the founders of United Artists, Charlie Chaplin was one of the great stars of the silent film era. He is best known for his character the Little Tramp.

Adelso Corona (b. ????)

????? April 16
Inker

Martin deMuth (b. 1895)

1895 April 16 - 1961 March 2
Sketch artist, world traveler, and lecture who later in life worked for Will Eisner.

Hermes Tadeu (b. 1978)

1978 April 16 - 2003 December 21
Artista mais conhecido como colorista, que alcançou fama ao colorir as capas de Mike Deodato Jr. no Hulk. Ele morreu tragicamente aos 25 anos, num assalto na cidade litorânea de Praia Grande, onde tinha ido passar o fim de semana com a família.

Artist best known as colorist, who achieved fame by coloring the covers of Mike Deodato Jr. in the Hulk. He died tragically at age 25, in a robbery in the seaside town of Praia Grande, where he had gone to spend the weekend with his family.

Georgia Webber (b. ????)

????? April 16
Comic creator best known for Dumb, an autobiographical comic about not being able to use her voice.

Jack Welch (b. 1905)

1905 April 16 - 1985 month? day?
Jack Welch (1905 - 1985) was active/lived in Texas, New York. Jack Welch is known for Illustrator-droll family activities, newspaper artist, magazine covers.
A newspaper artist in Texas, California, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City, Jack Welch also worked on national advertising campaigns and did magazine covers including for The Saturday Evening Post.
Around August 1937, his daily panel, On Our Block, was distributed by King Features, which ended it in early 1938.

Ben Adams (b. ????)

????? April 15
Ben Adams self-published the mini-comic book Limp Excuses and Stiff Drinks in 1980.

Adams also did pencil and ink work for other independent and mini-comic publishers. Known work includes TMI (Blue Moon Productions, 1981 series?) 1981, Book of Art (Boa Productions, 1980 series?) 1980, Miscellaneous Funnies! (Boa Productions, 1981 series?) 1981, Babyfat! (Clay Geerdes, 1982 series) 1982 [mini-comic], Bedtime for Ronzo (Clay Geerdes, 1981 series?) 1981, and Bizarre Escapades (Infinity Visual Productions, 1981 series?) 1981.

Chantal De Spiegeleer (b. 1957)

1957 April 15
Chantal De Spiegeleer est un auteur de bande dessinée belge, dessinatrice et coloriste.
En 1975, elle devient étudiante à l’École supérieure des arts graphiques de Saint-Luc (Bruxelles). Elle y fait partie de l’atelier R, fondé par Claude Renard, à l’origine de l’album collectif, "Le 9e rêve", où elle publie ses premières planches. Elle publie un court récit de onze planches dans la revue "(À suivre)" intitulé "Façades blanches" en 1978. Elle commence sa carrière dans la mode à la fin des années 1970 pour notamment Cacharel, Daniel Hechter, Armani ou Chanel.
Elle rencontre René Sterne en 1980, avec qui elle se marie.
Elle publie "Mirabelle", un récit en noir et blanc aux éditions Moretti en 1982, puis s’oriente vers la publicité. À partir de 1985, elle assure la colorisation de la série "Adler", réalisée par son époux René Sterne.
En 1987, elle publie dans le "Journal de Tintin" un gag et un court récit de deux planches dans "Super Tintin" no 376. En 1988, elle entame seule la série "Madila", qui met en scène une héroïne indépendante et mélancolique, aux éditions Le Lombard, qui comptera quatre tomes entre 1988 et 1993.
Chantal De Spiegeleer et René Sterne s’installèrent à Union Island dans l’archipel des Grenadines en 1992. Puis, l’artiste montoise se consacre à la peinture virtuelle, le jeu vidéo et la création de tissu.
Chantal de Spiegeleer termine l’album sur lequel René Sterne travaillait au moment de son décès en 2006, "La malédiction des trente deniers - Tome 1", une aventure de Blake et Mortimer.

Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452)

1452 April 15 - 1519 May 2
(1452–1519) Italian polymath, inventor and painter.