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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 0:57:57 GMT -5
SyFy Wire is doing an interview with Colleen Doran as part of their Women in Comics feature for March. This is just one segment of the interview, but it touches on breaking into comics, perception of women artists, and MArie Severin (a favorite of many here)... You can find more segments on the SyFy Wire pageand on Youtube There's lots to wrap your head around in this interview for sure, but I kind of found the bit on how inkers were assigned fairly interesting as it is relevant to many, many conversations we have has here on the site over the years. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 1:05:41 GMT -5
Okay, another segment on creating comics digitally vs. physical pages
Marie Severin again enters into the conversation, and I love, love, love the term The Kirby Barrier!
-M
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 1:13:37 GMT -5
Last segment here, on working with Stan Lee and her career highlights...
interesting bit about working with Alan Moore in there too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 8:07:37 GMT -5
I always liked her work. It had a light and ethereal look to it. Very pretty art and I enjoyed the 90s Valor (Mon-El) title when she drew it.
It seems like I saw a special about her (it may have been another female artist) on the ID Channel. She was stalked for years by a crazy fan. Hope all is well for her now!
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 28, 2017 9:07:11 GMT -5
There's a book called the Comic Book Rebels, that came out in the 90s. Doran is one of the people interviewed in it and she tells some absolutely horrible stories about some of her experiences, as a young artist in the business: sexual harassment a big theme. She mentions an editor or publisher who attended a convention with her who booked her into his hotel room. She spent the night in the lobby. She also mentions bringing her mother along, because she would get hit on (and she was under-age) and the same people would be hitting on her mother!
She's a heck of an artist and storyteller.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 13:28:16 GMT -5
She's a heck of an artist and storyteller. If you read through her creator owned series, A Distant Soil, which she started in the 1990s and has put out new issues of as recently as 2014, you can watch her evolution as a storyteller and artist over the course of the series. It really is a career-spanning book for her. -M |
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Post by Confessor on Mar 29, 2017 4:33:51 GMT -5
This might sound strange, but I only became aware of Colleen Doran this week. I saw some of her artwork online and was blown away. I don't own anything she's drawn, but I aim to seek some of it out soon. She comes across well in these interview clips too -- I like the cut of her jib.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 29, 2017 11:30:48 GMT -5
This might sound strange, but I only became aware of Colleen Doran this week. I saw some of her artwork online and was blown away. I don't own anything she's drawn, but I aim to seek some of it out soon. She comes across well in these interview clips too -- I like the cut of her jib. Doran was quietly putting out great work for years, with little notice. She started as a teenager (!!!!) and produced her own A Distant Soil, with WARP, until a battle over ownership led her to end the relationship. That was done entirely in black & white. Donning/Starblaze, which approached her about the series in high school, next published it, until Doran and others sued them for copyright violation and fraud. She next self-published it under her Aria Press, then Image. Doran has always been a staunch advocate of creator's rights, both as part of the self-publishing community of the 90s (with people like Dave Sim, Jeff Smith and others) and today. He website blogs are filled with great advice for wannabes, as well as cautions about some of the vanity press publishers out there who milk them for money. She's a tough cookie who doesn't take guff from anyone. I remember a letter column, form A Distant Soil, where someone attacked her, asking what she knew about discrimination and her response was brilliant. First she said, "Hello...I'm a woman..." then also brought up her Irish ancestry and historical accounts of prejudice against Irish immigrants in this country (every wave has gotten it, it isn't a recent phenomena). She rivals P Craig Russell for drawing the most beautiful men, though she tends to favor curly headed ones.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 11:35:05 GMT -5
This might sound strange, but I only became aware of Colleen Doran this week. I saw some of her artwork online and was blown away. I don't own anything she's drawn, but I aim to seek some of it out soon. She comes across well in these interview clips too -- I like the cut of her jib. I own several pieces of her original art. . not only "a Distant Soil" pieces, but also some other stuff she's done, that she used to sell from her table at Dragon*con. my favorite is one she did as a design pitch to Marvel for BloodStorm (from AoA stuff) that Marvel rejected as too Sexy, but they ended up going with something (that i think) is sluttier. But I lucked out, because was able to buy the original pitch sketch from Colleen! been hanging on the wall in the comics room for years. . lemme see if I have a pic of it. edit:    |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 29, 2017 12:15:21 GMT -5
Sandman really got her on a lot of people's radars and the story she did (issue #20), with Elemental Girl, a thing of beauty and poetry.   |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 12:45:35 GMT -5
Collen Doran made my list of favorite cartoonist for the 12 Days of Christmas event when that was the topic. I discovered her on Sandman (and noticed her on some Wonder Woman stuff too around the same time) and that led me to checking out A Distant Soil when I started exploring comics outside he mainstream in the late 90s.
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