Thanks for your patience.

Past issues also feature entertaining interviews with Stephenie Meyers and Neil Gaiman.

<strong>11:00 am – 11:30 am – Authors On the Pavilion. Barry Lyga with Colleen Doran: A Sneak Preview to His First Graphic Novel.
Barry Lyga’s first two novels, <em>The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl</em>, and <em>Boy Toy</em> both received excellent reviews and have established him as a rising force in the world of young adult literature. Now, his with his first graphic novel, published by Houghton Mifflin on the way, Barry and his creative partner on the project, Colleen Doran will be here to give a sneak peek at the book and to talk about the process of collaboration on a graphic novel. </strong>

<a href=”http://annual.ala.org/2010/index.php?title=Graphic_Novel_Pavilion”>American Library Association Meeting to feature major graphic novel programming.</a> Clink linky for complete info.

Well, I just heard back from the editor, and it looks like my pin-up will appear in Marvel Girl Comics #2. Dang, that was a fast turnaround.

So, the work I was not originally slated to do will now be in an issue on which I am not solicited! Hah! Oh, this crazy world of comics!

Anyway, the release date is May 5. So ask for it at your local comic shop. I don’t know if it’s too late to get your orders in.

I’m really happy with the way the art turned out, and hope you like it too. It’s a painting of one of my favorite Marvel characters.

Thanks to Jeanine Schaefer for squeezing me in on this one! ‘Twas fun.

I’ll be at Wondercon this coming weekend and C2E2 two weeks later.

I am not bringing loads to sell. Only one box of books per show, and whatever art will fit in a the suitcase.

I am also not taking commissions. I am sorry, but my commitments to my current long-suffering commissioners and clients must be honored.

I really expected to be about three weeks further along on my work than this, but them’s the breaks. Too much volunteerism, not enough drawing. The sacrifices I make for my fellow creators! Excuse me a moment while I crawl down off my cross…

I will be working on my assignments while at the show, so will have no trouble taking the time to talk to you, do free doodles, and draw my assignments right there in front of your eyes. And I will only have the most generic, non-spoiler pages in front of you while I work, so I won’t give any plot points away. This will make my editors happy.

Here is my event schedule at Wondercon:

Spotlight on Colleen Doran
Friday, APRIL 2
3:30-4:30pm
ROOM 236/238
Moderator: Derek McCulloch, author of Gone to Amerikay, my current art obsession.

Creator Rights
Saturday, APRIL 3
12:00-1:00pm
ROOM 232/234

Also, there is a Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Live Art Jam on Saturday, which I believe is at 1 PM.

I don’t know if my Marvel Girl Comics piece will be out by the show, but I know some of you have those copies of Amazing Spider-Man #600. Happy to sign them for you. I may be able to bring one Absolute Sandman or one Absolute Death, but I dunno. I’m sure dealers will have some, too.

Please forgive me for not being able to make more of a splash and have more goodies for you. I will be available at my table to talk all you want, and I apologize to everyone who asked for commissions. I just don’t have the time right now.

All in all, I just hope this pimple on my nose goes away before next week.

Colleen’s published works number in the hundreds with clients such as The Walt Disney Company, Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics, Image Comics, Lucasfilm, Dark Horse Comics, Harper Collins, Houghton Mifflin, Sony, and Scholastic.

Her credits include Amazing Spiderman, Sandman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, The Legion of Superheroes, The Teen Titans, Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Anne Rice’s The Master of Rampling Gate, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, A Distant Soil, The Silver Surfer, Lucifer, and many others. (Visit http://www.colleendoran.com)

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About Colleen Doran

A cartoonist, illustrator and film conceptual artist, she has illustrated the works of Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Warren Ellis, Anne Rice and J Michael Straczynski.

Her latest work is for DC Comic’s Vertigo division, with Derek McCulloch, a collaboration the original graphic novel Gone to Amerikay. She is also illustrating Stealth Tribes for Vertigo. Written by best-selling author Warren Ellis, known for his breakthrough works Transmetropolitan and Global Frequency, Stealth Tribes is a cutting edge, cyberpunk, science fiction tale. Colleen Doran and Barry Lyga are teamed to produce another original work to be announced from Houghton Mifflin in 2011.

A Distant Soil, Colleen’s epic science fiction/fantasy tale from Image Comics, is a complex space opera, among the first of its kind in the USA, and is ongoing as a webcomic and graphic novel series.

Colleen was one of the first American artists to discover the lure of Japanese comics, and later went on to work for various Japanese publishers as a consultant, teaching the American market to manga industry executives.

She won a grant from the Delphi Institute to study American popular culture, and was chosen to represent the United States at the Japan/America manga/comics seminar in Tokyo, Japan along with Eisner award-winning cartoonist Jeff Smith, Pulitzer Prize and Oscar award-winning creator Jules Ffeiffer, Denys Cowan, and Nicole Hollander. She also lectured at the Singapore Writers Festival in 2005.
, and was Artist in Residence at the Smithsonian. She has exhibited her work at shows and galleries in Milan, Vienna, New York, San Francisco, and Tokyo.

Well known in Lord of the Rings fandom, she is often a guest at shows and exhibits. She appears in the film Ringers, a documentary about the Lord of the Rings fan phenomenon, and has done officially licensed illustrations, as well as for Mallorn, the literary journal of the Tolkien Society and The Silver Leaves Journal.

Colleen has also been profiled in the films Sex, Lies and Superheroes by Constantine Valhouli, and Mainstream Raw: Scenes From the Small Press by Rich Henn. Henn followed up with a solo film of Colleen and her work called Scenes From The Small Press: Colleen Doran. She also appeared in The Cartoonist, a documentary about Bone creator Jeff Smith, which has aired on PBS.

As a core member of the comic book industry’s self publishing movement, she and other creators changed the face of the industry by bypassing the publishing and distribution system to create and publish their works in new ways. She was profiled in the book Comic Book Rebels.

Colleen lives quietly on a family farm in rural Appalachia. She works on her art every single day, and enjoys gardening and hiking.

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