Website credits
Founder/Initiator
Kees Kousemaker (1942-2010)
(Web)store
Boris Kousemaker (owner), Klaas Knol (1954-2019), Arie Plas, Jurrien de Vries
Editorial team Comiclopedia
Bas Schuddeboom (writer/chief editor), Kjell Knudde (writer/editor), Dan Schiff (editor/West Coast Consultant)
Programming, Design & database
Digizaal webdev, Grafx MFG
(Former) Contributors Comiclopedia
Margreet de Heer (The Netherlands), Martinez Flores (Mexico), André Fournier (Canada), Michel Heynen (France), Elihai Cnafo (Israel), António Joel (Portugal), Ferenc Kiss (Hungary), Szabolcs Kiss (Hungary), Marcel Lagerman (The Netherlands), Justin van Lopik (The Netherlands), Wout Meijer (The Netherlands), Vladimir Nedialkov (Bulgaria), Nikos Nikolaidis (Greece), Balázs Ország (Hungary), Vincent Polverino (The Netherlands), Ramon Serra Massana (Spain), Stiliana Thepileva (Bulgaria), Eduardo Urrutia (Spain), Rick Webb (US), Charlotte Weeb (UK)
Editorial support
Marko Ajdaric (Brazil), Dirk Arend (The Netherlands), Rainer Böhlke (Germany), Erol Bostanci (Belgium), Paulo Cesar (Brazil), Alfredo Castelli (Italy), Toon Dohmen (The Netherlands), Gianfranco Goria (Italy), Manuel Gonzalez-Rodriguez (Belgium), Jean-Marc Lofficier (France), Jeroen Mirck (The Netherlands), Dodo Nita (Romania), Mladen Novakovic (Hungary), Denis Villegas (Philippines), Jos van Waterschoot (Belgium).
Many thanks to:
Fredrik Andersson, Andrey Ayoshin, Janny Bos, Ken Bradford, Alan Clark, Jakub Demianczuk, Robbert Drupsteen, Ferdi Felderhof, Rob Geleijnse, Yasco Horsman, Rick Idenburg, Denys Howard, Alex Jay, Hansje Joustra, Cok Jouvenaar, Yakup Karahan, Nadine Kieft, Steven Knol, Ivan Kocmarek, Alex van Koten, Pericles Koulifetis, Dwinita Larasati, Egbert Liebold, Robert Löffler (Germany), Hans Matla, Bert Meppelink, Dario Mogno, George Mulder, Sergey Nikolov, CGL Oldersma, Marko Otsen, Peter Pontiac, Massimo Repetti, Trina Robbins, Thom Roep, Eric-Jan Scharlee, Abel Schoenmaker, Germund Silvegren, Fredrik Strömberg, Wendy Siuyi Wong, Hanneke Visser, Arjan Vlaming, Jan-Willem de Vries, Gerard Zeegers, FreeFind, Google, Apple, xxLink, The Bunker, A.L. Digital Ltd, Michael Renshaw, The Real Free Press, Women in Tights
Resources
The Comiclopedia owes much gratitude to these invaluable general sources of information:
BDOubliees - Site with "forgotten" French comics and indexes of magazines
Bear Alley - Steve Holland's blog about British comics and its authors
Bedetheque - Extensive database of French comic albums
Beyond the Funnies - The History of Comics in English Canada and Quebec
Brabant Strip Magazine - Comics information magazine from Flanders
Catawiki Comics Catalogue - Catalogue of comic books from auction platform Catawiki
Comic Book Plus - A large database of copyright-free Golden Age and Silver Age comic books
Comicguide.de - Database of German comic publications
The Comics Journal - America's main comics information magazine founded by Gary Groth in 1977
Comixjoint - Website about underground comix
Delpher - Online newspaper archive of the National Library of the Netherlands
Ergocomics - Chilean comics portal
The Fabulous Fifties - Ger Apeldoorn's blog on classic American newspaper comics
Grand Comics Database - Database covering all printed comics throughout the world
Guida al Fumetto Italiano - Database of Italian comics magazines and books maintained by IF Edizioni
Guia dos Quadrinhos - Large database about Brazilian comic books and authors
Inducks.org - The online database of Disney comics worldwide
MAD Cover site - By Doug Gilford
Philippine Comics Art Museum (defunct) - Overview about Philippine comics authors by Gerry Alanguilan on komikero.com
Newspapers.com - US digital archive of historical newspapers.
Pulpartists.com - Alphabetical index of classic pulp illustrators, by Norman Saunders
Stripper's Guide - Allan Holtz's wonderful blog about classic and obscure American newspaper comics
Stripnieuws - Dutch comics information magazine published by Het Stripschap
Stripschrift - The oldest comics information magazine from the Netherlands
Stripspeciaalzaak.be - Highly informative Flemish news portal maintained by David Steenhuyse
Tebeosfera - Spanish comics portal
Toonopedia - Don Markstein's site about (classic) comic book characters
UBC Fumetti - Italian comics portal
UK Comics Wiki
Who's Who of American Comic Books - Database of American comic book authors, set up by comics historian Jerry Bails
Wikia La BD de Journal au Québec - André Fournier's index of French-Canadian newspaper comics
'100 Years of American newspaper comics. An illustrated encyclopedia.' - Edited by Maurice Horn (Gramercy Books, New York, Avenel, 1996).
'America's Great Comic Strip Artists: From the Yellow Kid to Peanuts.' - Edited by Rick Marshall (Abbeville Press, 1989).
'American Newspaper Comics, An Encyclopedic Reference Guide.' - Edited by Allan Holtz (The University of Michigan Press, 2012).
'Asian Comics.' - By John A. Lent (University Press of Mississippi, 2015).
'BD Guide 2005.' - Edited by Claude Moliterni, Philippe Mellot, Laurent Turpin, Michel Denni and Nathalie Michel-Szelechowska (Omnibus, 2004).
'Het Beeldverhaal in Vlaanderen.' - By Danny De Laet (Brabantia Nostra, 1977).
'België Gestript.' - By Geert De Weyer (Ballon Media, 2014).
'Bonzer, Australian Comics 1900s-1990s.' - Edited by Annette Shiell (National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University (Elgua Media, 1998).
'Catalogue Encyclopédique des Bandes Horizontales Françaises Dans La Presse Adulte de 1946 à 1975 de Lariflette à Janique Aimée.' - By Alain Beyrand (Pressibus, 1995).
'De Christelijke strip in Vlaanderen; of een andere kijk op de geschiedenis van het beeldverhaal in Vlaanderen' - By Jozef Peeters (Lobergen, 2011).
'Comics Through Time. A History of Icons, Idols and Ideas' - By Keith Booker (Greenwood, 2014).
'Danish Comics Today' - Compiled by Anders Hjorth-Jørgensen (Stavnsager, 1997).
'Dictionnaire de la Bande Dessinée' - Edited by Henri Filippini (Bordas, 2005).
'Dictionnaire de la Bande Dessinée d'Afrique Francophone' - Edited by Christophe Cassiau-Haurie (L'Harmattan, 2013).
'Dicionário dos Autores de Banda Desenhada e Cartoon em Portugal' - by Leonardo de Sá & António Dias de Deus (Edições Época de Ouro, 1999).
'Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors' - by Alan Clark (British Library, 1998).
'The Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British cartoonists and caricaturists - By Mark Bryant (Ashgate Publishing, 2000).
'De la Historieta y su uso 1873-2000 (2 volumes)' - Compiled by Jesus Cuadrado (Ediciones SineEntido, 2000).
'Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation' - By Charles Solomon (Random House Value Publishing, 1994).
'Encyclopédie de la Bande Dessinée Érotique', by Henry Filippini (La Musardine, 1997).
'Forging a New Medium: The Comic Strip in the Nineteenth Century' - By Charles Dierick and Pascal Lefèvre (VUB University Press, Brussels, 1998).
'The Great Cartoon Directors' - By Jeff Lenburg (Da Capo Press, 1993).
'Hong Kong Comics, A History of Manhua.' - By Wendy Siuyi Wong (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002).
'Larousse de la BD'. - Edited by Patrick Gaumer (Paris: Larousse, 2004)
'Loslopend wild; de nieuwe generatie Vlaamse stripauteurs'. - By Geert De Weyer (Oogachtend, 2009)
'Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics'. - By Paul Gravett (Harper Design, 2004)
'Masters of American Comics' - Edited by John Carlin and Paul Karasik (Yale University Press, 2005).
'Southeast Asian Cartoon Art. History, Trends and Problems'. - By John A. Lent (McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014).
'Swedish Comics History'. - Written by Fredrik Strömberg (The Swedish Comics Association, 2010).
'Vlaamse Reuzen, De Complete Stripgids-interviews 1974-2001 - Jan Smet & Toon Horsten (Vrijdag, 2014).
'De Vlaamse Stripauteurs - By Danny De Laet (De Dageraad, 1982).
'Wordt Vervolgd, Stripleksikon der Lage Landen - Overview of Dutch-language comics compiled by Lambiek's Kees Kousemaker and his wife Evelien Willems (Het Spectrum, 1979).
'The World Encyclopedia of Comics (Revised Edition)'. - Edited by Maurice Horn (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1998).