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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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Jesse Crumb (b. 1968)

1968 April 1 - 2018 January 3
Son of Robert Crumb and Dana Morgan Crumb, Jesse was not a comic book creator, but did have a successful career in fine art. He is probably best known for his series of portraits of Beat Generation poets, done in the 1990s. Died as a result of an automobile accident.

Bill Oakley (b. 1964)

1964 April 1 - 2004 February 16
Bill Oakley worked in support as a letterer for several companies from 1985 until his death in 2004 and continually reprinted thereafter.

和泉かねよし (b. ????)

????? April 1
Kaneyoshi Izumi (和泉かねよし) is a manga artist who debuted in 1995. Known for the manga series Doubt!! (ダウト!!), Sonnan ja nē yo (そんなんじゃねえよ), Joō no Hana (女王の花), Seiho Boys' High School (メンズ校), Ni no Hime no Monogatari (二の姫の物語), Te no Hira wo Taiyou ni (手のひらを太陽に) and Himitsu no Hanazono (秘密の花園).

Aldo De Amicis (b. 1904)

1904 March 1 - 1978 April 30
Aldo graduated in accounting and started working for the Roman transport company ATAC. He later became a full time artist for the weekly comics magazine Il Vittorioso.
Throughout the 1940s, he produced a great many historical adventure stories, including 'Pietro Micca', 'Il Terreno minato', 'Campo de' Fiori', 'La Valle della Solitudine', 'Il Grande Circo', 'Una Madre Ritorna', 'L'angelo azzurro', 'Fiamme a San Francisco', 'Carovana verso il Sud', 'L'amore è una cosa meravigliosa', 'Fanfan la Tulipe', 'Appuntamento a Ischia', 'Rocce insanguinate', 'La gloriosa avventura', and 'Destino sull'asfalto'.

Scott Dikkers (b. 1965)

1965 March 1
Creator of the daily comic strip Jim's Journal which ran from 1987 to 1997. Editor in chief of The Onion.

Bill Gaines (b. 1922)

1922 March 1 - 1992 June 3
Additional bibliography:
Comic Book Artist (Twomorrows, 1998 series) #1 (Spring 1998);
Comic Book Marketplace (Gary Carter, 1991 Series) v1#16 (August 1992) [obituary];
Comic Book Marketplace (Gemstone, 1995 Series) v2#80 (July-August 2000);
Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series) #81 (May 1983);
Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series) #100 (July 1985);
Jester (July 1992) [obituary];
MAD World of William M. Gaines (Bantam Books) 1972;
World Encyclopedia of Comics (Chelsea House Publishers) 1976;
World Encyclopedia of Comics (Chelsea House) 1998;
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaines;
Internet Movie Database: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0301362/;
New York Times, "William Gaines, Publisher of Mad Magazine Since '52, Is Dead at 70" by James Barron, June 4, 1992, Section B, Page 11; and
Washington Post, "Publisher William M. Gaines Dies" by Claudia Levy, June 4, 1992.

Gaines worked in support as a business consultant to DC from circa 1972 to circa 1992.

Gaines was publisher and editor in chief of EC Comics from 1947 to 1955. He owned EC from 1947 until he sold his remaining magazine, Mad, to Premiere Industries in 1961.

Robert Grossman (b. 1940)

1940 March 1 - 2018 March 15
New York Times Obituary (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/obituaries/robert-grossman-illustrator-with-a-brash-touch-dies-at-78.html).

Freelance illustrator from 1963 onwards.

Nominated in 1977 for an Academy Award (Oscars) as Best Animated Short Film for Jimmy The C (Motionpicker Productions).

Produced television commercials with his brother, David Grossman, in the 1980s under the banner Grossman Brothers.

Rose Wyn (b. 1902)

1902 March 1 - 1992 July 15
Rose Schiffman Wyn (March 1, 1902 - July 15, 1992) was an editor, publisher, and co-owner of the company that came to be known as Ace Periodicals, which published comics during the Golden Age.

Schiffman was a Russian Jew who had immigrated to the U.S. in 1905 with her family. By 1922 Schiffman was working as a bookkeeper at her family's printing business. In 1926 she married A.A. Wyn, who would shortly thereafter begin working for Harold Hersey at Magazine Publications, Inc. By 1932 Wyn had taken over the publisher, which was renamed Ace Publications by 1938.

Rose Wyn began working as an editor for her husband's company in 1932 or 1933. In 1940, Ace began publishing comic books, and both Wyns are listed as co-owners. Rose Wyn was also an editor for Ace Comics (1946-1951).

ほるまりん (b. 1976)

1976 March 1
Rin Horuma (ほるまりん) is the original artist, writer and character designer of the Medabots manga series.

山本ヤマト (b. 1983)

1983 March 1
Yamato Yamamoto (山本ヤマト) is a manga artist and illustrator who debuted in 2003. Best known for doing the artwork on the Seraph of the End (終わりのセラフ / Owari no Serafu) manga series as well as the Kure-nai (紅) light novel and manga series.