The grand comics database is a nonprofit group of international volunteers dedicated to the collection of comics. He died on 6 june 1977 at his home in long island, new york. Born in for william, ontario, he began his career as a cartoonist and comic strip artist in 1920s toronto. Jul, 2007 they have a nice searchable database of comics, with about 300,000 comics logged into their database. The grand comic book database project for friends and readers into comics, you can easily spend an afternoon enjoying the grand comic book database project. He was also instrumental in illustrating the first talking, read along childrens book called matey. None of his films can be categorized into any particular genre. This fully searchable and sortable database includes information on creator credits, story details, and other information useful to the comic book reader, fan, collector, and scholar. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format. The first goal of this project is to catalog every comic, graphic novel, manga, creator. The grand comics database project gcd is a volunteer project with the goal of documenting and indexing all comics for the.
If you still have questions, send us an email at gcd contact list. And they have 150,000 covers saved including basically every cover from every notable marvel or dc comic book published. Whos who in comic fandom 1964jerry bails1964 supplement50. The grand comics database project aspires to be the worlds most comprehensive online comics database for comic readers, collectors, scholars and professionals. In the 1990s, scotts project moved online and two other online bibliographies. Start with your database customers and inform them about your facebook and twitter accounts. A frankly adult comedy about the sex lives of the aimless and the rich, shampoo is also a pointed commentary on the demise of 1960s idealism at the dawn of the nixon era. It is election day, 1968, and randy beverly hills hairdresser george roundy warren beatty is too worried about attending to all of his womens tonsorial and sexual needs, while trying to swing a bank loan to fund his own. It contained specifications for book and printed serial material and provisional fields for various non book materials such as music, motion pictures, phonodiscs etc. This website remains a continued tribute to his efforts at making sure that those who helped create our favorite fourcolor medium are given the credit that they richly deserve. Shampoo 1975 allmovie movies and films database movie. Join facebook to connect with rich woodall and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Backed by the grand comics database, the largest database about comics and their creators on the planet, allows you to track and manage your comic collection.
Get the latest local detroit and michigan breaking news and analysis, sports and scores, photos, video and more from the detroit news. Explore the history of our community through photographs, diaries, posters, maps and other records. The gcd project is cataloging information on creator credits, story details, reprints, and other information useful to the comic book reader, comic collector, fan, and scholar. It will help a dedicated collector to track the physical contents of their collection, automate collecting activities and integrate with popular online resources grand comic book database and diamonds. Gcd grand comics database the grand comics database is a nonprofit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, and disseminating information about all comics throughout the world. Web resources comics and graphic novels libguides at cornell. The gcd is building the most comprehensive comics database. Note that currently the gcd is effectively a database for comic books, rather.
Get started comics and graphic novels libguides at columbia. After you have created your social media profiles you need to establish a good fan base for you to be able to build a connection. The grand comics database project intends to be the most comprehensive online comics database for. I found a lengthy list of my own comic book writing credits by no means complete, but an excellent start.
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The grand comics database gcd is an ongoing international project to build a detailed comicbook database that will be easy to use and. The grand comics database gcd is an ongoing international project to build a detailed comicbook database that will be easy to use and understand, and. The state of comic art bibliography in north america. The grand comics database gcd is an ongoing international project to build a detailed comic book database that will be easy to use and understand, and also easy for contributors to add information to it. In the early days of organized comics fandom, the 1960s, dr. City staff recommended neal communities put up the bond or build the sidewalk along border road during this rst phase, but council agreed with an earlier decision by the planning commission and developer neal communities that it was too early in the project to enforce the requirement. The gcd is a 501c3 nonprofit organization incorporated in arkansas. Ifla unimarc manual middlesex university research repository. Home graphic novels and comics research guides at new york. The strip ran for only a couple of months, after which taylor became a commercial artist in toronto. On november 23, 2006, the father of comic book fandom and creator of this database, jerry bails, passed away in his sleep. Longbox is an free software inventory system for comic book collections.
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