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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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Sherman Burnett (b. 1969)

1969 May 8
Sherman Burnett is a longtime small-press creator who self-publishes his comics under the name Firebird Press. Primarily a writer, he has also drawn many of his comics, in addition to utilizing the talents of a number of guest artists from the small-press community over the years. He began creating comics in 1986, with one of his earliest attempts being the Energons, his longest-running and best-known series.

Jorge Corona (b. 19??)

19??? May 8
Jorge Corona is a comic artist whose works include We Are… Robin, Nightwing, and The Flash for DC Comics; Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack, Adventure Time Comics, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Dragons, and others for Boom! Studios. Corona is also the co-creator of Goners and No. 1 with a Bullet (Nominated for the 2018 Eisner Awards for Best Cover Artist) for Image Comics, and creator of Feathers, his all-ages dark fantasy, for Archaia Entertainment.

Benjamin Earl (b. 1980)

1980 May 8
Working first as a film producer and writer, under the name Benjamin Jackendoff. Later as a comic book writer he used the name Benjamin Earl, often credited as B. Earl.

William Ferguson (b. 1900)

1900 May 8 - 1986 June 23
William Ferguson was an American book illustrator and comic artist. From 1928 to 1931 he made the non-fiction newspaper feature 'Mother Nature's Curio Shop'. Other early educational features by Ferguson were 'Feathered Facts and Fancies', 'Who's Who in Dogdom' and 'Our Great Outdoor Zoo'. His longest running feature was 'This Curious World' that ran from 1931 to 1952. It returned as a weekly strip in 1956 and 1957.

Adrian Gonzales (b. 1938)

1938 May 8 - 1998 October 23
Gonzales began his career as a comic book artist on Filipino comics in the 1960s. He worked for the De Zuniga Studio from 1971 to circa 1973, resulting in his first work being published for U.S. publishers. Brief work for Marvel Comics, Warren, and Western Publishing, but Gonzales is known for his work for DC Comics from 1981 to 1985.

Gonzales moved onto movie, television, and video animation work, by 1985, primarily as a storyboard artist, work he continued until the end of his career. That work details are here:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327441/

Alex Koda (b. 1918)

1918 May 8 - 1999 May 30
Alex Koda did pencil and ink work for Quality Comics from 1941 until his enlistment into the Army, with his work last appearing dated 1943.

Additional biographical information found in:
Republican and Herald (Pottsville, Pennsylvania), Thursday, October 22, 1942, pp 4.

Served in the U. S. Army Signal Corps during the Second World War, enlisting June 17, 1942 at Hartford, Connecticut.

Rod Parkinson (b. 1918)

1918 May 8 - 2002 August 24
Additional biographical information:
Tenth Letter of the Alphabet, "School Days: Pratt Institute and the Golden Age of Comics" by Alex Jay, Monday, June 24, 2013, https://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com/2013/06/school-days-pratt-institute-and-golden.html.

Décio Trujilo (b. 1959)

1959 May 8
Jornalista e editor das publicações infantis da Editora Abril

ヒミコ (b. ????)

????? May 8
Himiko (ヒミコ) is a manga artist, illustrator and character designer best known for the series
SINoALICE.

小池 一夫 (b. 1936)

1936 May 8 - 2019 April 17
Kazuo Koike (小池 一夫 Koike Kazuo, 8 May 1936 — 17 April 2019, Japan) was a prolific manga writer, novelist, anime writer, and instructor.

In 1970, he collaborated on a new feature with artist Goseki Kojima, who had been an illustrator and then manganka since the 1950s. They created ‘Kozure Ōkami’ in “Weekly Manga Action” (1970–1976), which is collected in English as “Lone Wolf and Cub”.

The series was translated twice in the USA — partly at First Comics (1987–1991) and completely at Dark Horse (2000–2002).

Koike also worked on a series of Japanese film adaptations of the feature (1972–1974). Some of that material was dubbed in English and released as “Shogun Assassin” (1980).

He and artist Ryoichi Ikegami created ‘Kuraingu Furīman’ (‘Crying Freeman’) in “Big Comic Spirits” (1986–1998). Another violent story of a fugitive assassin, this feature is set in modern times rather than the Tokugawa shogunate of “Lone Wolf and Cub”.

Viz Media translated “Crying Freeman” for the USA market in the 1990s, first as serial comics and then in collected editions. Dark Horse later published new editions of the collections (2006–2007).

Other Koike series translated by Dark Horse include “Samurai Executioner” (2004–2006), “Lady Snowblood” (2005–2006), “Path of the Assassin” (2006–2009), “Color of Rage” (2008), and “New Lone Wolf and Cub” (2014–2015).

Koike was an avid golfer and a former professional mahjong player, and wrote manga in both of those genres. He was inducted to the Hall of Fame of the Will Eisner Awards in 2004.

Additional biographical information can be found in Amazing Heroes #118, 1987.