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A dearth of blogging doesn’t mean I don’t love you.

by Colleen Doran on March 9th, 2012
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work

I’m now going a week or more without blogging, and with my work schedule these days, there’s not a lot to be done about that.

I was up until one AM polishing off cover art for Irish Echo magazine’s St Patrick’s Day edition, which will feature a preview of Gone to Amerikay. Quite nice to do this.

I still have a handful of packages to send off, as well as some commissions to finish off between all my assignments. The last of the book orders will ship within a week.

Here’s a few interesting links:

An article about the murder of a group of Irish immigrants in the 19th century, finally getting a decent burial.

Another interesting tidbit on reclusive heiress Huguette Clark.

Author Jonathan Franzen disses Edith Wharton. I have nothing nice to say about this dude.

Among his assertions: that she was ugly, which didn’t cause her marriage to be sexless, but probably didn’t help; that Lily Bart is the opposite—beautiful—but a “party girl” whom Wharton punishes for her looks; that the central problem in reading Wharton is how to grudgingly “get over” her cosseted, wealthy existence as she swans around European hotels.

Someone really didn’t get the point.

Civil War sailers found at bottom of sea get facial reconstruction. Very nifty article.

Novelists talk about what it’s like to go Hollywood.

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Ken O’Malley “Dublin in the Rare Auld Times”

by Colleen Doran on March 3rd, 2012
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work, Culture, Music

My new graphic novel “Gone to Amerikay”, written by Derek McCulloch, will be out March 28.

Have some Irish music from Ken O’Malley.

I was looking forward to a vacation Down Under, but did not finish “Gone to Amerikay” before I left. It seems there was so little to do, I thought I’d polish it off after a week or so of all-nighters. 6 weeks later, I was still drawing a good ten hours a day, so there went my vacation. I ended up having exactly ONE day off during the entire time of travel between Australia and New Zealand! Oh, well, no one can say I’m not dedicated.

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CELEBRATE CREATOR OWNED! A Distant Soil Commissions

by Colleen Doran on March 1st, 2012
Posted In: Blog, A Distant Soil Blog Posts, Blog, Colleen's Work, Colleen's Work, Commissions

It’s creator owned comics day, and you can read my comic for FREE right here, over 700 pages of it, published by Image Comics, and advertiser supported at this website.

Here’s a couple more A Distant Soil character sketches. The end is near! After hundreds of remarqued editions sketches and a backlog of major commissions, I am at the end of the stack. I’m shooting for April 15 at the latest. I have a major private portrait commission painting to polish off, a few more of these remarques, and a few mainstream commissions, all in various stages of completion now. Then I’m done. I will definitely take on more, but haven’t decided on details. I’ll let you know.

In the meantime, Minetti.

And Galahad, looking too sweet by half. What a nice fellow.

This is one character everyone likes, but no one ever requests for commission. So when someone gives me free reign to draw what I want, I pick up one of the least requested characters and give them an outing.

Nothing has made me happier than the nice letters I get from people when they get their limited edition books with these drawings in them!

Today is also the last day for our The Book of Lost Souls graphic novel 50% off sale. Please check out our bookstore for details! Thanks.

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J Michael Straczynski’s BOOK OF LOST SOULS On Sale!

by Colleen Doran on February 11th, 2012
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work

NOW AVAILABLE AT NEARLY HALF OFF COVER WITH FREE SHIPPING!

One of my very favorite projects EVER was The Book of Lost Souls, a series I drew for J Michael Straczynski at Marvel Comics’ Icon Line. I have rarely enjoyed any assignment so much, and count it among my best work.

Jonathan, in despair over lost love and thwarted ambitions, commits suicide. He awakens in the 21st century, where he is transformed into a psychopomp, a spirit who escorts lost souls. Does he save them or send them to their doom?

He acts on the orders of the Dark Man, and his guide is a talking cat named Mystery.

Unfortunately, The Book of Lost Souls just did not get the circulation it really deserved. It would make an outstanding TV series, IMHO.

Marvel collected the entire run in a handsome, full color trade paperback. Issue 3 is a heartbreaking story that will get right into the soul of any artist. It’s worth it on its own.

For some years now, I’ve been unable to get The Book of Lost Souls trade paperbacks, except on the secondary market. I was told it was sold out and there were no copies available from the publisher, Marvel Comics.

Eh. No.

Nice Mr. Straczynski found and obtained the ENTIRE remaining stock of this trade paperback collection, and it is available here, minty fresh, uncirculated, for a super low price!

Near HALF off cover for MINT condition copies signed by me, with shipping included. How cool is that? Only $9.95 for SIGNED copies! $16.95 foreign. The Canadian cover price on this thing is $28! Get it from us for $16.95!

SALE IS OVER! thanks for your orders.

Or, go deluxe!

Get this trade paperback collection AND a page of ORIGINAL INTERIOR ART from the series for only $59.95, or $69.95 foreign. BARGAIN AND A HALF. I pick the page, you get the signed book and art. Your page MAY even be one interior from the UNPUBLISHED seventh issue.

All pages are hand drawn originals on acid free paper measuring 11″x14″.

SALE IS OVER! Thanks for your orders.

This sale is for a limited time.

Please check out my bookstore for other offers!

Click HOME to go to my advertiser supported webcomic. Thanks for reading at my official website.

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Commissions: Bast, Corrine, Sere

by Colleen Doran on February 10th, 2012
Posted In: Blog, A Distant Soil Blog Posts, Blog, Colleen's Work, Colleen's Work, Commissions

The scary news this week is that Marvel received a judgment against a creator for doing convention sketches and selling prints (CORRECTION: selling prints of sketches by other artists. Hm.). It’s unlikely Marvel would have sued for damages had the creator not sued (and lost) in the first place. However, I’ve been saying for awhile now that if you don’t poke the tiger, it won’t poke back. And now that the tiger is owned by Disney, the tiger will not only poke back, it will beat you with a clue stick.

Donations are now being accepted to help out Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich.

I was told specifically by more than one Marvel editor that doing conventions sketches is OK by Marvel (they are not so keen on prints, which I’ve never done).

Regardless, even if Marvel did reverse their policy and go after convention sketches, it wouldn’t hurt me at all. I do only about one Marvel commission a year.

I wonder when more publishers are going to get around to making certain artists officially licensed to do sketch commissions and prints. The way Lucasfilm does.

For the record, the restrictive covenants about sketches, attribution, etc, is a major reason why I walked from an Archie comics agreement some years ago.

Most people want my own work anyway. Isn’t that dandy?

Have a look at some more.

A nice portrait of Sere. Isn’t she pretty?

I really like the shading on this portrait of Bast.

No one ever asks for Corrine, so when one buyer gave me free reign to draw any character I wanted in the remarqued editions of his books, I gave her a go.

I have some more commissions to post soon, so come back little buckaroos.

AND FYI: GREAT review for Mangaman at the AMAZON.Com blog Omnivoracious! Wahoo!

It’s a love story within a comic book within a graphic novel, and Mangaman’s heart is as big as its hyperbolic hero’s eyes—a Valentine’s Day gift for the romantic who’s well-versed in any form of the comic medium.

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