The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is a nonprofit, internet-based organization of international volunteers dedicated to building an open database covering all printed comics throughout the world. Give our search a try, take a look at the menu to the left to see how you can help us improve the site, or use my.comics.org to track and manage your comic collection.

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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Don MacLaughlin (b. 1919)

1919 July 8
Western Publishing: Comic-book artwork for painted comic-book covers 1950s.

Kell Ståhl (b. 1934)

1934 July 8 - 2003 month? day?
Redaktör och författare för bland annat Topp Special, Svenska Mad, Hjälp!, Skräckmagasinet.

Pendleton Ward (b. 1982)

1982 July 8
Ward is an animator, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor known as the creator of Adventure Time.

Andrea Corno (b. 1937)

1937 July 7 - 2007 July 7
Andrea Corno and Max Bunker formed publishing house Editoriale Corno (which was initially called Edizioni Serpente Volante). They first published reprints of Flash Gordon, Rip Kirby, Secret Agent X-9, Brick Bradford and Prince Valiant before developing their own series such as Kriminal and Satanik.
Their greatest success came from the reprinting the Marvel Comics series such as the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man.

Cardwell Higgins (b. 1902)

1902 July 7 - 1983 August 11
Cardwell Higgins worked in comic books under the byline pen name of H. Cardwell for Prize titles in 1940. The known features Higgins worked on included Dr. Dekkar and Secret Agent M-11.

Higgins's art career covered pulp magazines, advertising, pin-up art, murals, illustrations, movies, and plays.

Norberto Láinez de la Riestra (b. 1883)

1883 July 7 - 1955 July 28
Norberto Láinez de la Riestra, son of Manuel Láinez Cané, took over Editorial Láinez in 1924 following his father's death.

Kelly McKernan (b. 1986)

1986 July 7
Kelly McKernan obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kennesaw State University, with a concentration in drawing and painting. She has been exhibiting her work with numerous galleries since 2009, in including Spoke Art, Gallery 1988, Haven Gallery, Arch Enemy Arts and Modern Eden Gallery. She is a regular contributor for Imagine FX magazine.

Annmari Olsson-Reich (b. 1952)

1952 July 7
Painter/illustrator with many exhibitions to her name. Creator of the "Olsson" cartoon which ran for many years in Sweden's Amelia magazine. Has comics credits in Bloody Wymmin Comix, Comix 2000 and Girltalk #3 (Fantagraphics, 1996).

田代哲也 (b. 1969)

1969 July 7
Tetsuya Tashiro (田代哲也) is a manga artist, illustrator and lecturer.

藤島康介 (b. 1964)

1964 July 7
Kōsuke Fujishima (藤島康介) is a manga artist and creator of Oh My Goddess! (ああっ女神さまっ / Aa! Megami-sama)