1. Colleen Doran was born on July 24,1964 and is an American writer-artist and cartoonist.
36 Facts About Colleen Doran
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Colleen Doran adapted and did the art for the short story "Troll Bridge" by Neil Gaiman, which became a New York Times bestseller.
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Colleen Doran's books have received Eisner, Harvey, Bram Stoker, Locus, and International Horror Guild Awards.
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Colleen Doran illustrated the works of Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Joe R Lansdale, Anne Rice, J Michael Straczynski, Peter David and Tori Amos.
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At age five, Doran won an art contest sponsored by the Walt Disney Company.
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Colleen Doran created her comic book series, A Distant Soil, at age twelve.
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Colleen Doran landed her first work for an advertising agency at age fifteen.
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Colleen Doran attended Christopher Newport University for one year and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh online for one semester and used her professional works for curriculum credit.
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Colleen Doran broke into the comic book industry when still a teenager, scouted by Tom Long for his fanzine Graphic Showcase.
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Long hired Colleen Doran to draw a revival of the 1940s character Miss Fury.
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Underage Colleen Doran quit the assignment due to its adult content.
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Colleen Doran contributed illustrations to the Hugo Award nominated fanzine Lan's Lantern.
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Colleen Doran left the company after nine issues due to an acrimonious dispute with WaRP, which attempted to claim copyright and trademark on her work.
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Colleen Doran discarded the 300 pages of work she did at Warp, and rewrote and redrew the entire A Distant Soil story from scratch, first with Donning, then as a self-publisher.
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Colleen Doran was scouted by Keith Giffen to work at DC Comics after he saw her work in the Legion of Superheroes fanzine Interlac.
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Colleen Doran's art appeared in Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld No 12, multiple issues of Who's Who in the DC Universe and Who's Who in the Legion of Superheroes, Superman: Man of Steel Gallery, Christmas with the DC Superheroes, Captain Atom, Star Trek, and Hawkman Annual.
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Colleen Doran did art for several Teen Titans and Wonder Woman projects.
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Colleen Doran illustrated portions of the "Dream Country" and "A Game of You" story arcs in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series.
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Colleen Doran worked on projects at Marvel including The Guardians of the Galaxy Annual No 3, The Silver Surfer, Marvel Fanfare, Excalibur No 28, Captain America: Drug Wars, Amazing Spider-Man, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, a Power Pack mini-series, Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Mutant X, X-Factor, Marvel Girl Comics, and X-Men Millennial Visions for which she wrote and drew an entry.
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Colleen Doran worked in the Special Projects Department on promotional, educational, and greeting card art, sometimes working directly with Stan Lee.
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Colleen Doran was a web columnist for Wizard Magazine in the early 1990s, and illustrated Super Idol for Warren Ellis in 2001, an early webcomics format experiment at Artbomb.
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Colleen Doran was featured in the December 12,2011 episode of "Stalked: Someone's Watching," a Discovery ID television series that profiles stalking incidents, focusing on interviews with victims.
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Colleen Doran worked as a creator rights activist and as a lobbyist in Washington DC, and served on the advocacy committee of the Graphic Artists Guild.
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Colleen Doran spoke at CREATE: Protecting Creativity from the Ground Up at the Newseum in Washington DC, with Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, Rick Carnes President of the Songwriters Guild of America, musician Suzanne Vega, and other artists and technology policy specialists.
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Colleen Doran illustrated young adult novelist Barry Lyga's first graphic novel for Houghton Mifflin, Mangaman in 2011.
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Colleen Doran wrote script and did the art for an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's short story "Troll Bridge" as a graphic novel for Dark Horse, released in October 2016.
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Colleen Doran worked on issues of Faith and X-O Manowar for Valiant Comics.
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Colleen Doran produced work for the adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
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Colleen Doran was the artist for the series Finality with Warren Ellis at Line Webtoon.
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Colleen Doran wrote and illustrated a short story for "Sensational Wonder Woman", and illustrated another Wonder Woman short story for "Wonder Woman Black: and Gold" in 2021.
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Colleen Doran produced work for DC Comics' "Generations: Forged" and cover art for "Batman: Urban Legends".
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In 2021 Colleen Doran produced art for the Z2 Comics graphic novel anthology The Doors: Morrison Hotel, an official graphic novel collection based on the music of the band The Doors.
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Colleen Doran's work was used for limited edition prints and the bookplate.
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Colleen Doran wrote and illustrated work for Balmain: Dreams 10 OR a graphic novel dedicated to the French fashion house Balmain in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of creative director Olivier Rousteing.
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In 2022, Z2 Comics contracted Colleen Doran to produce work for officially licensed graphic novels for Blondie, Melissa Etheridge, and the 30th Anniversary of the Tori Amos album Little Earthquakes.