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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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Busy Arnold (b. 1899)

1899 May 20 - 1974 December 26
Additional biographical information found in:
Alter Ego (Twomorrows, 1999 series) #34 (March 2004).
Cartoonist PROfiles (Jud Hurd, 1969 series) #27 (September 1975)

Arnold's first job was in press manufacturing with R. Hoe and Co. From circa 1922 to 1923, he worked as Eastern sales representative for Goss Printing Press Co.

Busy Arnold was the printer for William H. Cook and John F. Mahon of their Comics Magazine Company comic book titles, circa 1936 to possibly 1937. He worked as vice president for Greater Buffalo Press, from circa 1933 to 1938.

Arnold continued as publisher for Quality Comics, partnering early Frank J. Murphy and Frank J. Markey starting in 1937 and continuing until company was sold to DC in 1956. Is known to have written one unknown Blackhawk story in 1941.

Busy's work in printing, selling presses to Eastern Color Printing and McClure Syndicate helped those companies towards success. Through his connections with the Greater Buffalo Press, Arnold help the development of the Spirit Sunday sections.

From 1956 to 1957, Busy started Arnold Magazines, Inc., mostly focusing on fiction digests and a photography magazine.

Richard Jennings (b. 1921)

1921 May 20 - 1997 January 19
Served in the Air/Sea Rescue service of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East.

Hector Malot (b. 1830)

1830 May 20 - 1907 July 17
Novelist, best known for Sans famille (1878).

Leon Schlesinger (b. 1884)

1884 May 20 - 1949 December 25
Owner of Leon Schlesinger Productions credited in comics from 1941 to 1945. Often this was the pen name of his animators for comics based on the Warner Brothers cartoons for such artists as Carl Buettner, Chase Craig, Dan Gormley, Ed Volke, Roger Armstrong, Tom McKimson, Veve Risto, or Win Smith, etc. As such it's unlikely Schlesinger produced any art himself.

南マキ (b. ????)

????? May 20
Maki Minami (南マキ) is the creator of works such as Voice Over! Seiyu Academy (声優かっ!), S.A. Special A, Komomo Confiserie (こももコンフィズリー) and Get Ready?.

梶山ミカ (b. ????)

????? May 20
Mika Kajiyama (梶山ミカ) is a manga artist and illustrator. She's known for manga adaptations of the video games Neo Angelique (ネオ アンジェリーク) as well as Ikemen Sengoku: Toki Wo Kakeru ko (イケメン戦国◆時をかける恋).

那多ここね (b. ????)

????? May 20
Kokone Nata (那多ここね) is a manga artist and illustrator active since 2015. Works include Cool Doji Danshi (クールドジ男子 / Play It Cool, Guys), Hyakunichikan!! (ひゃくにちかん!!) and Sensei mo Net Sedai (先生もネット世代 / The Net Generation Teacher).

Kyle Carrozza (b. 1979)

1979 May 19
Kyle Carrozza was born on May 19, 1979 in Catskill, New York. As a little kid, Kyle was influenced by many cartoon shows on television, mostly Bob Clampett's Looney Tunes. Most of the cartoons he watched were inspirations for his own drawing style. Shows such as Beany and Cecil and Garfield helped influence his drawings. He also got into anime in 1996 while he was at high school and particularly enjoyed watching Ranma 1/2 and Project A-ko. Several of his animation influences were from Bob Clampett, Bruce Timm, Doug TenNapel, Jhonen Vasquez, Tex Avery, Ralph Bakshi and numerous others.

Chase Conley (b. ????)

????? May 19
Comic book artist who also works in character concepts, design, story boarding and video games.

Gerry Kissell (b. 1964)

1964 May 19
A former U.S. Army combat medic.