A page of pencils from Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story. Click PREVIOUS for more.

FYI: J Michael Straczynski is slated to take over the writing chores on both Superman and Wonder Woman. Incoming links to this page tell me:

A) Some people out there are spreading the rumor that I am the new Wondy artist.

B) Some people out there are spreading the rumor that I am posting these pages to audition to be the new Wondy artist.

C) Some people out there are hoping I am the new Wondy artist.

I am not auditioning, I am not in line to do the book, and I have two GN projects for DC’s Vertigo that I need to clear off my schedule before I can take on any new work at DC. So, no to All of the Above.

I am working on the GN Gone to Amerikay with Derek McCulloch, and Stealth Tribes with Warren Ellis. Stealth Tribes is temporarily sacrificed on the altar of Amerikay.

Thanks for all the kind words, and you all know how much I enjoy drawing Wonder Woman, but the new artist isn’t me.

Wonder Woman is © and ® DC Comics Inc.

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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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.

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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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Another page of pencils from Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story. Click PREVIOUS for more.

Another page from Wonder Woman: the Once and Future Story graphic novel, written by Trina Robbins.

Scanned from a copy of the pencils.

You can find buy a copy here, but as I wrote on a previous post, the final book looks significantly different from my pencil art.

The Wondercon Website is HERE.

This is a page of my original pencils from a graphic novel called Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story. This page was scanned from a photocopy of the pencil art.

The final version was inked by a very talented artist named Jackson Guice. However, our styles did not mesh well, and the published work didn’t come out the way I intended. I’m glad to be able to show folks the pencil art.

Many inkers have told me my delicate line work is very difficult to handle, and I haven’t worked with an inker in almost eight years. However, I’ve worked with some of the best, such as Bob Wiacek, Greg Adams, and Terry Austin.

Since I ink all my own work now, I do final inks over loose layouts. I rarely do tight pencil art for comic book reproduction anymore.

I think this will be the last page I will post from the unpublished issue of The Book of Lost Souls. This series was published by Marvel Comics’ Icon line, and the first six issues are available in a graphic novel collection. We planned to go forward with the series, but JMS had so many tempting offers elsewhere he didn’t have time to continue. It was great working with him, and I really enjoyed this project.

Thanks for stopping by to have a look.

Hit PREVIOUS to see other works from this project. The art is © J Michael Straczynski and used with permission.

Come back soon for a look at my pencil art from Wonder Woman projects.

Another page from The Book of Lost Souls. As with the others, this is from an unpublished issue. A number of pages from The Book of Lost Souls are available for sale. Please inquire.

The Tarot images in the bottom panels are paste ons. The art is drawn by hand.

Hit PREVIOUS to see other works from this project. The art is © J Michael Straczynski and used with permission.

These are official cards, not aftermarket, not ACEO. All by hand, no paste-ons, mechanicals, etc.

Payment via Paypal donation button at upper left.

Darth Maul is $160.

Young Anakin is $80. I rather like this one.

I don’t do that many sketch cards anymore, and have had to turn down the last two sets. Alas, they are fun.

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More unpublished art from The Book of Lost Souls. Click PREVIOUS for more.

Totally loved the dude in panel one, who was based on painter Sandro Kopp. I got a real kick out of the use of the tarot in this story.

Used with permission and © J Michael Straczynski.