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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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Fred Ludekens (b. 1900)

1900 May 13 - 1982 month? day?
An accomplished American artist and illustrator, Ludekens has comics credits on various western-themed premiums from 1955 to 1963 for Wrangler.

Stan Mack (b. 1936)

1936 May 13
Cartoonist who did comics for the Village Voice, Adweek, and National Lampoon and has also written a number of books.

Sjoert Schwitters (b. 1912)

1912 May 13 - 1945 March 31
Despite being a Jew and a Communist, reporter, writer and editor of youth publications Schwitters managed to escape from the Nazi occupiers for several years until he was arrested by chance in January 1945. He and four others were shot in retaliation of the liberation of a group of young men by the Resistance.

小林まこと (b. 1958)

1958 May 13
Manga artist best known for his long-running strip about a cat, called What's Michael?

鈴木光司 (b. 1957)

1957 May 13
Koji Suzuki (鈴木光司) is the author of the Ring (リング / Ringu) novels which have been the source of a multimedia franchise including films, video games, manga adaptations and TV series.

Vic Herman (b. 1919)

1919 May 12 - 1999 April 14
Drafted into the U.S Army on April 8th, 1943.

Worked for the Ordnance Department doing artwork and cartoons.

Milton Knight (b. 1962)

1962 May 12
Cartoonist, animator, comic book artist, writer, painter.

Lily Renée (b. 1921)

1921 May 12
Lily Renée is an Austrian-born American artist best known as one of the earliest women in the comic-book industry, beginning in the 1940s. She escaped from Nazi-occupied Vienna to England and later New York, whereupon she found work as a penciller and inker at Fiction House, working on such features as "Jane Martin", "The Werewolf Hunter", "The Lost World" and "Señorita Rio". For her comics work, she generally used her first and middle names (Lily Renée) or variations of them as her pen names, rather than using her surnames.

Renée had an early first marriage that was annulled. She later married Eric Peters, another Viennese refugee and a cartoonist whose work appeared in such glossy magazines as Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post. She then married Randolph Phillips, a politically active financial consultant who in the 1940s directed the American Civil Liberties Union's national committee for conscientious objectors, and in 1972 chaired the National Committee for Impeachment. The couple had a daughter, Nina, and a son, Rick.

Rachel Matt Thorn (b. 1965)

1965 May 12
Professor, translator, shōjo manga scholar. Among her translation credits are A Drunken Dream, The Heart of Thomas, Maison Ikkoku, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Nijigahara Holograph, Otherworld Barbara, Ranma 1/2, They Were Eleven, Wandering Son and many others.

Philip Wylie (b. 1902)

1902 May 12 - 1971 October 25
Wylie authored numerous books that influenced comic books, including his 1930 book, Gladiator. He also co-wrote with Edwin Balmer the 1933 book, When Worlds Collide and its 1934 sequel After Worlds Collide, that served as an inspiration for the comic strip Flash Gordon.

The World's Collide books served as a basis for the Speed Spaulding comic strip syndicated through John F. Dille Company from January 8, 1940, to March 29, 1941, in which both Wylie and Balmer were credited as creators.