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Revision as of 16:00, 13 April 2009

Welcome to the Grand Comic-Book Database!

Or really, welcome to our documentation! If you're looking for the actual database it's at http://www.comics.org.

The Grand Comic-Book Database (GCD) is an ongoing project to build a detailed comic-book database that is international, accurate and complete from the beginning of the art form to the present. We are always looking for new volunteers to contribute!

Any questions you have that aren't covered here can be directed to the GCD Contact email list.

Info about the GCD

The best way to learn about the GCD is to join our email lists, especially gcd-main which is where the day-to-day business of our project is discussed. We welcome new people! These links will provide some additional information:

Contributing to the GCD

The GCD encourages contributions from everyone who is interested. The easiest way to contribute is to report errors through our Error Tracker or to upload cover scans. The primary way for folks to contribute is to become an Indexer and add data for comics we don't yet have. Indexers may eventually become Editors, who review the work of Indexers and the incoming error reports and make corrections to existing data.

Email gcd-contact to get started.

Documentation contributors in roughly chronological order include: Bob Klein, Jonathan Ingersoll, Will Allred, Bob Heer, Jon Løvstad, Rob Sharp, Peter Croome, Tim Stroup, Henry Andrews and assorted GCD-Tech list folks.

Technical

Contact the gcd-tech group for more information about any of the above.

More Stuff About Comics

...that doesn't quite fit in the database.