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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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Mirka Andolfo (b. 1989)

1989 June 17
Mirka has worked as a colorist and illustrator for publishers such as Disney, Image Comics, BOOM! Studios, Soleil, Glénat, Piemme, Renoir, Star Comics, Editorial Aurea, and Dentiblù.
She was also the writer and artist for Sacro/Profono for Edizioni Dentiblù and ControNatura (Unnatural) for Panini Comics Italia.

Harrison Cady (b. 1877)

1877 June 17 - 1970 December 9
Walter Harrison Cady was an illustrator and author, best known for his Peter Rabbit comic strip which he wrote and drew for 28 years.

Harrison was 18 when his father was killed in Boston. He moved to New York City and within a year found work as an illustrator with the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper. His salary of $10 a week made it possible for him to support his mother; the two lived in a Greenwich Village cold water flat. He stayed at the Brooklyn Eagle for four years, while also freelancing to other publications.

His income increased considerably after Life editor John Ames Mitchell signed Cady as staff artist and cartoonist. This led to a long career as a newspaper and magazine illustrator, as well as numerous children's books, featuring both fantastic and realistic animal illustrations. He had a long association with Thornton Burgess, illustrating the writer's books, including Happy Jack, and his daily newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories". Their partnership spanned five decades, beginning with Baby Possum Has a Scare (c. 1912), The Adventures of Reddy Fox (1913) and Buster Bear Invites Old Mr. Toad to Dine (c. 1914), The series continued into the 1950s with At Paddy the Beaver's Pond (1950), followed by the reprint The Animal World of Thornton Burgess (1962).

Cady was very prolific, illustrating over 70 years for such publications as St. Nicholas Magazine, Boys' Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping and Country Gentleman. He illustrated the Queen Silver-Bell series by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

In addition to his extensive illustrating of others' books, Cady also authored several books with his own illustrations, including his Butternut Hill series (1929), Johnny Funny-Bunny's Picnic Party (1928) and Spring Moving Day (1928).

Earl Duvall (b. 1898)

1898 June 17 - 1969 January 7
Earl Duvall was an American artist and animator best known for his work on Walt Disney comic strips in the early 1930s and for a handful of animated short films he directed at Warner Bros.

Duvall started as a layout artist and later as a member of the story department at Walt Disney Productions. During this time, he also worked as a cartoonist on the Mickey Mouse dailies and Silly Symphonies Sunday comic strip. Duvall was periodically an inker for Floyd Gottfredson on the newspaper version of the Mickey Mouse daily edition comic strip in 1930-1932. He also drew and wrote the Silly Symphonies comic strip Bucky Bug for Walt Disney.

In 1933 he was invited to work at Warner Bros. He directed five animated shorts while there, then left after an argument with producer Leon Schlesinger. He then worked for the Iwerks animation studio for a while before returning briefly to Disney and then retiring.

Charles Quinlan Jr. (b. 1929)

1929 June 17 - 2011 August 27
Son of Charles M. Quinlan Sr., he helped his father writing stories while still in high school, in the 1940s. After he served as an aviator in the U.S. Air Force for nine years, and worked in the ferry trade of the British Virgin Islands also in the charter sailboat industry, and as research adviser on the 1993 restoration of the USS Constitution. Born in New York, he was a longtime resident of Portsmouth, NH.

仲村佳樹 (b. 1969)

1969 June 17
Yoshiki Nakamura (仲村佳樹) is a manga artist whose work includes Skip Beat! (スキップ・ビート!), Blue Wars and Tokyo Crazy Paradise (東京クレイジーパラダイス).

Zé Burnay (b. 1991)

1991 June 16
Zé Burnay is a Portuguese illustrator and cartoonist.

Clare Victor Dwiggins (b. 1874)

1874 June 16 - 1958 October 26
Clare Victor Dwiggins was a cartoonist who signed his work Dwig. Dwiggins created a number of comic strips and single-panel cartoons for various American newspapers and newspaper syndicates from 1897 until 1945, including his best-known strip, the long-running School Days (which appeared under a number of different titles).

Dwig's first comic strip was Home Wanted for Tags, a daily/Sunday strip for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, which ran from 1910–1919. His longest-running strip was Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1918–1931), which used more than a half dozen of Mark Twain's characters but employed very little content from his novels.

Dwig began School Days circa 1909 as a single panel, and it eventually evolved into a Sunday strip with a storyline about school kids that continued until c. 1932 (including under the titles Ophelia's Slate, The School Days of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn, and Golden Days).

Dwig drew Nipper (1931–37) for the Ledger Syndicate. During that same period, he did Footprints on the Sands of Time for the Ledger Syndicate. In 1940, he returned to Huckleberry Finn (also for the Ledger Syndicate), which was reprinted in the pages of Doc Savage Comics and Supersnipe Comics (both published by Street & Smith Comics). He also drew Bobby Crusoe in 1945 for Supersnipe Comics.

Philippe Glogowski (b. 1960)

1960 June 16
Philippe Glogowski is a Belgian comics writer, artist and letterer.

Frank Thorne (b. 1930)

1930 June 16 - 2021 March 7
Frank Thorne (1930-2021) was a comics creator who worked in comic books and syndicated strips beginning in 1948.

He was known for his work on ‘Red Sonja’ at Marvel (1975–1978).

Frank Thorne created Danger Rangerette, Ghita of Alizarr, Moonshine McJugs, Lann, and Ribit! As of 2006, Ghita had appeared in five languages and has sold 60,000 trade paperbacks.

Thorne received a National Cartoonists Society award (1963) and an Inkpot Award at San Diego (1978).

Lorraine Turner (b. ????)

????? June 16
Lorraine Turner is a two-time Emmy-winning graphic artist who was a lead designer for the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers for ten years, producing print and television graphics, as well as in-game videos. In addition to being a multiple Eisner Award nominee in her role as the Library of American Comics’s art director, she is a motivational speaker, author, illustrator, and textile designer who teaches and lectures internationally. She lives in Florida with her husband Dean Mullaney.