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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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Anthony Bourdain (b. 1956)

1956 June 25 - 2018 June 8
Anthony Bourdain was a noted chef, author, and food and travel show host. He wrote for DC Comics Get Jiro! (2012 series) and Get Jiro: Blood and Sushi (2015 series).

Mar Julia (b. ????)

????? June 25
Cartoonist and comic book artist who leans toward the fantasy and magic genres.

Neil Selkirk (b. 1947)

1947 June 25
Photographer known for his portraiture.

猿渡哲也 (b. 1958)

1958 June 25
Tetsuya Saruwatari (猿渡哲也) is a manga artist best known for the series "Tough" (高校鉄拳伝タフ) which ran for forty-two volumes in Japan.

David McKay (b. 1860)

1860 June 24 - 1919 November 20
David McKay was a Scottish American publisher, founder and head of David McKay Publications, which published books of all kinds, including early examples of comic books.

He died at home following an appendicitis operation.

Victor Pazmiño (b. 1899)

1899 June 24 - 1970 June 6
Pazmiño was brought to America as an infant and educated in Brooklyn at Erasmus Hall High School, where he was art editor of The Erasmian, and at Pratt Institute. By the mid-1920s he was producing syndicated newspaper strips including Frolicky Fables (with Wesley Morse) (the Premier Syndicate) and The Figgers Family (Central Press Association).

Starting in the late 1920s his work appeared regularly in American comic books, including The Funnies, Famous Funnies, Keen Detective Funnies, Daredevil Comics, Black Terror, Fighting Yank, Barnyard Comics, and Whiz Comics, usually signed with his initials, VEP. He also contributed gag cartoons to Ballyhoo.

Pazmiño never married or had any children. He died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1970, at age 70.

Rodolfo Torti (b. 1947)

1947 June 24
Rodolfo graduated from the Institute for Cinematography and Television and initially worked in animation and graphic design. He started his comics career in 1970 with the publishers Aprea and Corbi. In 1974 he started creating work for Lanciostory and Skorpio for the publisher Lancio.
Torti began his most famous series, 'Jan Karta', in Orient-Express in 1983, in collaboration with Roberto Dal Prà.

Don Wilder (b. 1934)

1934 June 23 - 2008 September 24
Wilder worked as a technical illustrator, visual media coordinator, and publications specialist for Lockheed Aircraft, RCA, and General Electric. He spent seventeen years as information specialist for the CIA.

He worked as a cartoonist and teamed up with Bill Rechin and Brant Parker to create Crock comic strip in 1975 for King Features, with Wilder as writer and Rechin as artist taking over the strip in 1977 and continued until Wilder's death in 2008. From 1986 to 1993, both also created the humorous sports panel for King Features, Out of Bounds.

Wilder obituaries:
The Comics Reporter, "Don Wilder, 1934-2008" September 25, 2008 (http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/don_wilder_1934_2008/);
"Cartoonist Don Wilder Dead at 74" September 25, 2008, (http://kingfeatures.com/2008/09/cartoonist-don-wilder-dead-at-74/);
ComicMix, "‘Crock’ Creator Don Wilder Dead", by Robert Greenberger, September 26, 2008 (https://www.comicmix.com/2008/09/26/crock-creator-don-wilder-dead/)

Sana Amanat (b. 1982)

1982 June 22
Amanat is an American comic book editor, known for her work at Marvel on Ultimate Spider-Man, Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers), and Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan). She is a co-creator of Kamala Khan.

Phil Elliott (b. 1960)

1960 June 22
Co-creator of Doc Chaos.