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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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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).

日野日出志 (b. 1946)

1946 April 19
Hideshi Hino (日野日出志) is a widely acclaimed horror manga artist and professor at Osaka University of Arts. Born in wartime China to Japanese parents but raised in Japan. Representative works in his extensive bibliography include Lullabies from Hell (地獄の子守唄 / Jigoku No Komoriuta), Gakuen Hyaku Monogatari (学園百物語) and Panorama of Hell (地獄変 / Jigokuhen).

Frank Bellew (b. 1828)

1828 April 18 - 1888 June 29
Born as the son of a British officer in India in 1828, he spent his youth in England and moved to New York City in 1850, where he started a career as an illustrator and comic artist.

Art Huhta (b. 1902)

1902 April 18 - 1990 October 14
Additional biographical information found:
The Stripper's Guide, Ink-Slinger Profiles by Alex Jay: Art Huhta, Tuesday, June 21, 2016, http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2016/06/ink-slinger-profiles-by-alex-jay-art.html

Clara Peck (b. 1883)

1883 April 18 - 1968 February 24
Magazine illustrator from 1906 to 1940, illustrating covers for Colliers, Liberty, St. Nicholas, Century, Pictorial Review, etc. She also did advertising and book covers, as well as fine art.
Only known comics works consists of material for Treasure Chest and Topix, distributed in Roman Catholic Church parochial schools.

Nilton Sperb (b. 1959)

1959 April 18
Nilton Sperb was born in Hicksville, NY, USA, then grown up in São Paulo, Brazil, where he went to college. While at it, Nilton was hired by Editora Abril to edit the publisher's then-new line of superheroes.