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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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Chondra Echert (b. 1983)

1983 April 22
Chondra Echert wrote Key of Z, Kill Audio, The Amory Wars, and Translucid with Claudio Sanchez and served as creative co-director of Evil Ink Comics.

Marie Javins (b. 1966)

1966 April 22
Editor Marvel Comics, 1990-1991.
Colorist, 1989-1995.
Editor of the promotional comic, Further Adventures of Savin' Dave and the Compounders for Merrill Lynch, 1997.

Elaine Lee (b. ????)

????? April 22
Elaine Lee is an American actress, playwright, producer, and writer, who specializes in graphic novels. She has also received recognition and awards for her work as a creator and producer of audio books and dramas.

Her comics have been illustrated by artists including Michael Wm. Kaluta, Charles Vess, James Sherman, Steve Leialoha, Linda Medley and John Ridgeway.

Her graphic novel Starstruck: The Luckless, the Abandoned and Forsaked was nominated for a Jack Kirby Award as The Best Graphic Album of 1985.

She is the mother of Brennan Lee Mulligan, author of Strong Female Protagonist.

Jørgen Moe (b. 1813)

1813 April 22 - 1882 March 27
Sammen med Peter Christen Asbjørnsen den ene parten i forfatterparet Asbjørnsen og Moe, som er mest kjent for sin innsamling og nedtegning av norske folkeeventyr.

Jorge Velasco Félix (b. 1935)

1935 April 22 - 2014 July 19
He served in various and important positions in the publishing industry: from 1965 to 1970 he was CEO of Editores Asociados Mexicanos and Editorial Meridiano; from 1970 to 1982 he was managing director of Grupo Sayrols, and from 1983 to 2001 he was general director of Publicaciones Citem and Grupo Editorial Vid.

Jérémy Manesse (b. 1975)

1975 April 21
Auteur, comédien et metteur en scène, Jérémy Manesse est le fils de Sotha et Philippe Manesse, qui dirigent ensemble le Café de la Gare. Monté pour la première fois sur la scène de ce théâtre à l’âge de 12 ans dans « La Mort, le Moi, le Nœud », il n’en est quasiment jamais redescendu et il y a écrit et monté de nombreux spectacles en tant qu’auteur depuis 2001, de « Harem Underground » et « La Partenaire de l’Inspecteur Murdock » à « A Suivre », « aPhone » et « On en est là ». Il est par ailleurs chargé de communication du théâtre et traducteur de comics américains.

Dino Busett (b. 1940)

1940 April 20
Dino Busett started in advertising in the early 1960s before working as an illustrator for the Milanese Agency, Agentur Agenzia di produzioni editoriali Dami. He oversaw their children's publications and produced the Encyclopedia of Animals for Boys for the Publisher Peruzzo. He created painted comic covers for Jeff Arnold, Jean Lafitte, Corriere dei Piccoli, Capitan Miki, Great Blek, Kinowa, Tarzan, Fury, Korak Son of Tarzan, and Rin Tin Tin. He produced an important publication with Mondadori on nautical and pirate history, an extensive Medical Encyclopedia work for Librex Publishing House, as well as art for the weekly newspaper Domenica del Corriere.
Dino is well remembered for his portraits of classical musicians on His Masters' Voice series before moving to London, working on more children's publications and a few American illustration assignments.
Returning to Italy, Busett drew a variety of science fiction projects, and devoted more time to painting and sculpting.

Jack Warren (b. 1886)

1886 April 20 - 1955 December 10
Comic strip syndication work:
Loco Luke Sunday (George Matthew Adams Service) 1935-07-05 - 1936-04-04 [Script, pencil, and ink work.];
Pecos Bill Sunday (George Matthew Adams Service) 1936-XX-XX - 1937-XX-XX [Script, pencil, and ink work.]

Warren did gag cartoon work for newspapers, details not yet known.

Anita M. Mühl (b. 1886)

1886 April 19 - 1952 December 14
American psychiatrist. Author of Automatic Writing (1930) and The ABC of Criminology (1941).

Connie Naar (b. 1893)

1893 April 19 - 1964 September 5
Connie Naar was an American writer, artist, and editor of Portugese and West Indian descent. She began contributing to newspapers and magazines in the New Jersey and New York markets in the early 1910s, both art and writing articles.

In 1935 she became assistant editor of the fifth and sixth issues of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's New Fun (DC, 1935 series), as well as contributing to the first issue of his New Comics as writer and artist for Petey the Pup and writer for the text feature, The Book Shelf. She also contributed to the first issue of Wheeler-Nelson's More Fun (#7, continuing from New Fun).

She continued work as an illustrator though the '30s and '40s, gradually moving from periodicals to book illustration in the 1950s and '60s. She died of cancer in 1964.

Additional biographical information found in:
Women and the Comics (Eclipse Books, 1985) by Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode;
Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists "Connie Naar (1893-1964)" (https://www.pulpartists.com/Naar.html).