Welcome to the Grand Comics Database!
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, use my.comics.org to track and manage your comic collection, or look how you can contribute.
Arnaldo Putzu (6 August 1927 – 1 September 2012) was an Italian artist renowned for his film posters for Italian and British films, such as Get Carter and the Carry On films.
Georges Rieu est un journaliste et scénariste de bande dessinée français. Il a été successivement rédacteur en chef du journal Vaillant de 1965 à 1969, de Pif Gadget de 1969 à 1971 et de Télé-Gadget de 1971 à 1972. Il a écrit des scénarios pour les séries Wango avec Paul Gillon et Jacques Flash avec Pierre Le Guen, Gérald Forton et René Deynis dans le journal Vaillant.
Connecticut artist Ray Dirgo is mainly known for his work on Charlton comics with Hanna-Barbera characters during the 1970's. He drew many stories such as 'The Flintstones', 'Yogi Bear', 'The Jetsons', 'Top Cat' and 'Huckleberry Hound'.
Dirgo was primarily self-educated in the arts. After high school, he was a sign painter and worked in advertising for a department store. Then he landed an advertising job at General Electric as a staff artist.
Leaving General Electric, he did many freelance cartoon style jobs for news publications advertising for local businesses.
He was a self-employed cartoonist for many years, and an editorial and sports cartoonist for the former Bridgeport Sunday Herald. He also did artwork for the city of Bridgeport and Beardsley Zoo.
He was married to Mildred Drew Dirgo, and had a son, Raymond R. Dirgo Jr, an instructor at the Famous Artist School.
Additional biographical information can be found in Cartoonist PROfiles #36, #40, 1977-78.
Illustrator, designer, comic book artist, writer, children's book author.
Charlie Adlard is a British comic book artist known for his work on books such as The Walking Dead and Savage.
Adlard began his work in the UK on White Death for Les Cartoonistes Dangereux with Robbie Morrison and 2000 AD series including Judge Dredd, and Armitage. In the United States he is best known for his work on The X-Files (for Topps) and in particular The Walking Dead.
Other work includes: Mars Attacks!; The Hellfire Club and Warlock for Marvel; Batman: Gotham Knights and Green Lantern/Green Arrow for DC Comics; Shadowman for Acclaim Comics; The Establishment for Wildstorm and Damn Them All for Boom.
Edward Anthony (1895 – 1971) was an American journalist and writer, known for co-writing Frank Buck's first two books, and for "Merry-go-roundelays" (1921).
In 1922 he wrote ”The pussycat princess; a fairy tale for boys, girls, parents and other children".
In 1935 he began writing the Pussycat Princess comic strip.
Dibujante mexicano, conocido por su trabajo en Fantomas. Hermano de Héctor Cruz.
Michael A. Gold is an American comics writer, editor and publisher. He was Group Editor and Director of Editorial Development at DC Comics, and co-founder, with Ken F. Levin, of First Comics.
Vancouver-based cartoonist Jasper Jubenvill found success, at 18 years of age, in small press circles with his creation, Dynamite Diva.
Mordillo was an Argentine creator of cartoons and animations and was one of the most widely published cartoonists of the 1970s. He is most famous for his humorous, colorful, surreal and wordless depictions of love, sports (in particular soccer and golf), and long-necked animals.
In July 1966 he began to collaborate with the magazine Le Pelerin and shortly after doing the same in Paris Match. Two years later, his work started being printed in publications from other parts of the world, most notably Germany's Stern.
From 1976 to 1981, Mordillo's cartoons were used by Slovenian artist Miki Muster to create Mordillo, a series of 400 short animations (300 min) that were shown in 30 countries.
The milestone cover was the variant cover by Mark Buckingham for the issue Black Cat #4 published by Marvel.
We added overview lists of character appearances in a group, e.g., Captain America and vice versa, e.g., The Avengers. You can also get a list of issues where Iron Man appeared as a member of the Avengers.
We changed our handling of brand emblems for an issue. One now can select more than one brand emblem.
There will be cleanup of the existing combined brand emblems needed.
We also updated the list per brand emblem and its usages.
We recently added story arcs to our database. This is to group stories associated by some sort of title, which includes traditional story arcs, crossovers and events, whether identified by story titles, trade dress or other emblems. Will take some to populate the database, and we have not finally decided what all is considered a story arc. Click for current list of story arcs.
As a form of companion functionality, we added reading orders to our collection subsite my.comics.org. Any registered user can now create individual reading orders for any purpose. These can be made public for anyone to see, we might add search capabilities for reading orders at some point.
The milestone issue was Tex Willer Gigantbok #13 - Den siste opprøreren from Norwegian publisher Egmont.
Besides updating and renovating our page designs, in particular making it useable on small screens, we made a couple of changes on the behaviour of the site.
The result tables and lists are now more consistent throughout the site. On many pages you now fill find these two symbols . By clicking on them one can switch with a list view and an image view, e.g. using covers or creator faces.
Filtering of search results or lists is now usually available.
To avoid visual information overload in case of many variants or reprints, we show the full list only if their number is below a threshold. Logged-in users can set the thresholds in their profile to allow user-defined display.
The functionality for adding issues to a collection, or editing their collection status, is now accessible on the main site.
Most data objects now support markdown in the notes for visual structure. Notes now also support internal links, these are generated automatically and shown with the object name, e.g. [gcd_link_issue](442), or generally [gcd_link_'object_type'](id)
We changed the colors on the series status tables for a more consistent appearance. For issues, we added another layer to indicate that some sequence data is present.
Keywords are now generally clickable troughout the site.
This is good news for all our users, but we are now fully dependent on donations to cover our costs in the future.
If you wish to donate you can simply click , where for US donors this is tax deductable. Thank you for your use and support.Turning off these measures is not an option for us. Our site would be regularly unresponsive due to the bots (which are often AI-related bots).
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There are several ways in which you can help us to improve our site and its content.
More information is at our github page.
Further development of the API depends on user feedback and contributions.An import of issue and story data in JSON/YAML-format is now available, independent of the API.
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.