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.


Support for migrating text credits to creator links!

We deployed new functionalities for creator credits and features. There is now support for migrating existing text entries to matching creator records (or feature records). The way we record signatures also changed after we gained experience with creator records. Signatures are now separate database objects.

On the display side, we added lists of creators who worked on a series or feature, as well as an issue list for features. For both of course more of our data needs to be migrated from text entries to linked records. If you ever wondered to help with the content of the database, now is a good time.


Uploading Milestone!

Cover Image

We reached 950,000 cover scans !

We reached 950,000 comic covers. The milestone issue was Wild Western #3 a British reprint of Wild Western (Marvel, 1948 series) #47 (January 1956).

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.

GCD Comics Timeline


Peggy Bacon (b. 1895)

1895 May 2 - 1987 January 4
Created few cartoons and was better known for her caricatures, especially after a collection, "Off with Their Heads!", was published. Taught at the Art Students League, Moore College of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery School of Art.

Jared Gardner (b. 1966)

1966 May 2
Professor of English at Ohio State University focusing on American literature, comics, film and popular culture. Writer of the books "Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845," "Projections: Comics and the History of 21st-century Storytelling" and "The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture."

Helen Schmid (b. 1921)

1921 May 2 - 2002 May 22
Helen Schmid did comics support work for Novelty Press, as an editorial assistant from 1945 to 1947 and as an associate editor from 1946 to 1947.

Schmid also worked as a writer for Quality at some point during the 1940s, on Doll Man, Plastic Man, and Torchy. Specific work not known.

Additional biographical information found in:
Women and the Comics (Eclipse Books, 1985) by Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode.

大川七瀬 (b. 1967)

1967 May 2
Member of Clamp. Went by Ageha Ohkawa [大川緋芭] from 2004 to 2008.

Marco M. Lupoi (b. 1965)

1965 May 1
Publishing Director, Panini SpA, 1994 - Present
Editorial director, Marvel Comics Italia SrL, 1993 - 1994
Editor in chief, Edizioni Star Comics Srl, 1987 - 1993

Radoslav Rochallyi (b. 1980)

1980 May 1
Rochallyi was born in Bardejov, located in the Prešov region of what is today the Slovak Republic. The author finished his studies in Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov (1999–2005) and completed postgraduate PhD studies in pedagogy at the Faculty of Education of the University of Prešov (2005–2009). He worked as a teacher at the Pedagogical Faculty of Prešov University in Prešov. He is a member of Mensa and member of Association of Slovak Writers.

小黒祐一郎 (b. 1964)

1964 May 1
Yūichirō Oguro (小黒祐一郎) is an editor and planner working in the anime field. Was part of the Be-Papas (ビーパパス) collective responsible for the manga / anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena (少女革命ウテナ / Shōjo Kakumei Utena).

Max Ernst (b. 1891)

1891 April 2 - 1976 April 1
Max Ernst was born in the German Empire and after was naturalized American in 1948 and French in 1958. He as a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, and a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism. He is also noted for his novels consisting of collages.

Émile Zola (b. 1840)

1840 April 2 - 1902 September 29
French journalist and novelist.

えすとえむ (b. 1981)

1981 April 2
Est em (えすとえむ) is a manga artist who made her debut in 2006. Among her works are Tableau Numero 20 (作品ナンバー20), ULTRAS, Seduce Me After the Show (ショーが跳ねたら逢いましょう), IPPO, Equus (エクウス), Working Kentauros! (はたらけ、ケンタウロス!), Kusharu (クシュラル), Golondrina (ゴロンドリーナ), Age Called Blue (エイジ・コールド・ブルー), Kinein! (キネイン!) and Red Blinds the Foolish (愚か者は赤を嫌う).

How to Help

There are several ways in which you can help us to improve our site and its content.

  • You can provide missing data, update existing data, or upload cover scans. Just register an account with us, and you can start contributing.
  • Donate for our ongoing costs, e.g. the server infrastructure. We are a non-profit organization and any funds will be used for our goal of documenting and indexing all comics.
  • We need volunteer web designers and programmers! Please contact the gcd-tech group or visit our technical documentation if you can help with any of these roles:
    • Web designer / front-end developer (HTML / CSS / JavaScript)
    • Python / Django programming
    • ElasticSearch search server
    • Web Services API
    • Database Performance (MySQL)
Disclaimer
The Grand Comics Database Project (GCD) is a volunteer project with the goal of documenting and indexing all comics for the free use of scholars, historians, researchers, and fans.
The GCD acknowledges that the all-encompassing research nature of the project may result in the posting of cover scans for comics with images that some may find objectionable.
Viewer discretion is advised.
The Grand Comics Database Team
Statistics
14,187 publishers
46,007 creators
164,460 series
1,740,971 issues
139,146 variant issues
383,820 issue indexes
957,029 covers
3,121,163 stories