Archive for ‘Star Wars’

10 items.

Unpublished Element Lad, Star Wars, A Distant Soil, Lord of the Rings

by Colleen Doran on September 14th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work, Culture, Comics, Culture, Comics, Comics History, Culture, Literature, Fantasy, Lord of the Rings, Culture, Star Wars

I have truly enjoyed meeting so many new art collectors, and going through my files for all these pieces. GO DIRECTLY TO MY ART SALES HERE.

Once again, all my web sales will end in a few weeks because of my travels out of the country and heavy workload. I won’t have direct sales again until March 2012 or later. We’ll see how it goes.

First up, this page of Element Lad and Shvaughn Erin sketches, which is drawn on 1985 dated DC Comics Baxter paper. It is much larger than standard comic art size. It was probably drawn around the time I worked on The Legion of Superheroes #27, but might be later, since I can never get enough E-Lad! But this is obviously very old work on very old paper, so it probably was done while working on that book.

Here, a Star Wars Widescreen Clone Wars trading card for Topps. And a quick prelim sketch which was used for the base card in Star Wars Galaxy 4. You can see the base card here (oops forgot link, FIXED)

This Elrond portrait card for The Lord of the Rings Masterpieces sold so fast via Buy It Now that I didn’t even have the chance to remove the art from the scanner before it was gone! But at least I can show it to you all here!

Never published interior page from issue 10 of the publisher zero edition of A Distant Soil. I completed this issue but walked from the company because of a creator rights dispute. So this has never seen the light of day. I rewrote and redrew the entire series at a new publisher!

Early short story work circa about 1986, “Eugenie”, originally published in Renegade Romance and then reprinted in an issue of A Distant Soil. A tribute to The Rose of Versailles, my favorite manga by Ryoko Ikeda and the work of Aubrey Beardsley. Based on a true story about cabinetmaker George Hepplewhite and his unrequited love for a young girl. Would love to do more work in this style.


Book of Lost Souls prelim. Got halfway through this page, changed my mind about something.

GO DIRECTLY TO MY ART SALES HERE!

└ Tags: , , ,
Comments Off

Unpublished Sandman Preliminary sketches, Star Wars, A Distant Soil more

by Colleen Doran on August 19th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work, Culture, Comics, Culture, Comics, DC Comics, Culture, Comics, Marvel Comics, Culture, Comics, DC Comics, Sandman, Culture, Star Wars

To purchase any of these pieces, click this link to my ebay shop.

First, this page of preliminary sketches for The Sandman Gallery, circa 1994. Alas, I think the sketches are more interesting than the final painting.

This is drawn on DC Comics paper and is in excellent condition.

A classical study of a Greek youth. Quite like this.

Here’s two very nice Artist Proof sketch cards from Marvel Masterpieces II and Star Wars Clone Wars. Storm and Padme.

An unused prelim sketch for a base card for the Star Wars series for Topps. Here’s the one that was actually used for this project.

I also have unpublished A Distant Soil art and other goodies in my shop.

As annoying as ebay can be, it’s much easier to sell art there than here at my website. So far, all transactions have been very smooth, and I must say, all the buyers have been super-nice.

All of my auctions must be completed and shipped by the first week of October. I will be closing ALL my art and book sales until next year. I will be out of the country for over a month, and will be unable to process any orders during the holidays. If you want to buy books or art, please do so over the next few weeks.

All ebay sales must end, and my website sales must be shut down until March 2012, or later. So please, if you want to purchase books or art, especially for the holidays, please do so as soon as possible. I must make sure that everything has been processed and received by customers before I leave.

Naturally, I also need to make some good sales to make up for the fact that I will be doing no mail order for a good six months. Even though I have plenty of assignments, the loss of mail order will be quite a hit.

Take advantage of the sales and get books while you can. I am very happy to sign any books you order direct from me, too.

HERE IS MY BOOK SHOP. Order limited edition hardcovers and other books direct from me.

AND HERE IS MY EBAY STORE where you can find the above art for sale. I’ll be adding more pieces in the coming weeks, but then all my art and books go off the market for about six months.

└ Tags: , , ,
Comments Off

A Story to Topple Star Wars and Harry Potter! Yours for only $3 Million Bucks!

by Colleen Doran on February 27th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Creator Resources, Humor, Creator Resources, Publishing, Culture, Star Wars

Hey, you can’t make this stuff up. It’s up on ebay, and thanks to Jeremy Avery for the hat tip.

Alas, no bids so far.

I am selling my story that I have been creating for 10+ years. (not constantly writing, but of piecing everything together in a cohesive manner) It can be compared to stories like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Indiana Jones and other titles in those categories. This is a really great story I have. This story needs to be completed by a professional writer or Ghost Writer. I am by no means a writer.

Oh, stop.

OK, maybe it’s mean of me to mockity mock this, because it is clearly off the hook. But once in awhile, a publisher comes forward to ask me why I don’t write a Very Bad Freelancer series to go along with my Very Bad Publisher series. There are scores of deluded, untalented, diva-like goofballs out there making life miserable for perfectly nice publishing companies.

Well, conflict of interest (yeah, that’s it,) ’cause I’d have to squeal on my fellow freelancers (and, perhaps, me,) so no.

But I can point you to this utterly daffy ebay auction with a $3,000,000 starting bid, and a buy it now price of $10,000,000. I took a screen shot in case this thing evaporates tomorrow.

I would rather not sell it at all and just find investors to help hire a celebrity Ghost Writer, which would cost 250,000. The company that hires these writers out, guarantee the book to be a New York best seller. From my understanding, a celebrity ghost writer is someone who has written many books for others that have become “best sellers” and are at a point in their writing career to produce these best sellers often.

If George Lucas offered to sell his idea of Star Wars, would you have bought it?

No.

I will share my story with someone in person only and not over the internet. My story is too valuable to be spread publicly and will give a lot of new ideas for movies and book series that should belong to the buyer.

I bet JK Rowling thinks her story is too valuable to be shared publicly! Clearly, she should never have let that publisher put it into print. Now the cat is out of the bag! I know who killed Dumbledore.

This story will bring in endless fame and money to anyone who takes it. I do not have money to hire a Ghost Writer and I do not want to die with this story untold.

Must…stop…laughing…

And for the people reading this post who think I’m crazy for asking this amount of money for it; this kind of money is a drop in the bucket for large corporations. If it sounds like too much money then you are not the kind of buyer I’m looking for.

Well, OK then.

I know a Hollywood A-list screenwriter or three who doesn’t get that kind of money for a proposal, or even a final screenplay. It’s too bad Spielberg is such a skinflint. Otherwise, he could afford you.

Oh, look, I didn’t notice before. He’s thrown in free shipping.

For a $3,000,000 CD, I sure as hell should hope so.

So you want to be a screenwriter.

So you want to write a novel.

└ Tags: , , , ,
27 Comments

Quick Hits featuring Special Snowflake Scott Pilgrim Wank.

by Colleen Doran on August 17th, 2010
Posted In: Blog, Culture, Culture, Fandom, Culture, Literature, Culture, Star Wars

I’m not even sure what to make of this commentary about the Scott Pilgrim movie, which I have not seen. I have not read the book, either.

However, I have been subjected to the ire of certain factions of Nerddom for not being sufficiently nerdy. It would not be an overstatement to describe my early experiences (primarily in SF fandom, and in those circles where SF/Comics fandom crossed over) as hazing – and read the comments at the link for extra creepiness. I got so much hatey hate, that one day I asked my buddy author Bud Webster, what the heck the problem with me was. And Bud says to me, he says, “Colleen, you were the kind of people we were trying to get away from.”

WTF?

Keith Giffen went a little farther: “You are being punished for being popular in high school.”

Labeled NINO (Nerd In Name Only,) I took a lot of crap for daring to breach the Fortress of Nerditude where even Cat Piss Man is embraced with open arms, but the cheerleader is only accepted as a non-threatening lust object in fiction.

One well-known female professional flew into a rage because when I was sixteen-years-old, I entered a costume contest as Lady Galadriel. Kelly Freas took me aside to warn me that this woman had such a meltdown over me during the contest judging that I was to watch my back around her. “Galadriel is my elf!” cried the lady who claimed rule over something Tolkien created.

Years later, now a pro myself, I met her again. And she remembered. In great detail. And she was still furious at my encroachement on her territory. She was one of those women of SF/Comics whose womanly welcome extends only to women who do not threaten her. A sixteen-year-old blond threatened her a lot. A young female pro threatened her a lot. I still threaten her a lot.

In this spirit, I direct you to this Anti-nerd Rage Awesome.

If nerds go from underdogs to top dogs, there’s literally no outlet left for the unpopular, in much the same way that Nirvana hitting the top 40 charts killed the underground music scene.

Everyone deserves their own place to go that is not dictated to by the rules of the majority that already sets the pace for every other social gathering. Nerds should not be beholden to the same concerns that the “cool kids” use to pull rank on each other, and quite frankly, we shouldn’t have to be exposed to those people if we don’t want to be, because a lot of them are simply assholes. It’s like telling the quiet girl who’s into anime that her only allowed outlet for enjoying the medium involves sharing space with the girls who called her a lesbian for not being into the most popular boy band of the moment. The most important freedom is freedom from other people.

I declare my right to freedom from Cat Piss Man.

The comments thread is a wonder.

All I wanted to do when I was a kid was go to a convention and buy some books. I didn’t realize that was an act of aggression like, I dunno, beating up a kid with thick glasses.

Moving right along, an interview with my lovely and talented collaborator Barry Lyga:

An amusing feature on soap operas at The Atlantic.

From the ridiculous to the sublime. What a dull cliche. Go read Moliere instead.

A call to abolish tenure for professors. My dad does not have tenure, so I guess I am prejudiced about it all.

Tenure is a bad deal not just for universities, which are saddled with its costs, but also for professors, who are constrained by its conventions. Cathy Trower, a researcher at Harvard University who has studied tenure for the last decade, says the current system may actually be scaring talented young people away from academia. “This one-size-fits-all, rigid six-year up-and-out tenure system isn’t working well,” she says.

Beautiful model dressed as slave Leia gets molested at Star Wars convention. I’m not sure that’s news.

Someone will tell her that’s what she gets for going to a convention as a NINO.

Colleen is extremely stinky and cross after a morning of farm labor. Not sure that’s news, either. Lack of rain has our watermelons splitting open on the vine. Very vexed.

└ Tags: , ,
9 Comments

The Team Up YOU NEVER DEMANDED! Spidey and the Jedi!

by Colleen Doran on May 3rd, 2010
Posted In: Blog, Culture, Comics, Humor, Culture, Star Wars

Free Comic Book Day hijinks in Australia as a store owner dressed as the Amazing Spider-Man and a team of Jedi Knights stop an evildoer who tried to take off with a valuable X-Men comic!

“Everyone in the store thought it was a play, that it was street theatre of some sort. It wasn’t until I said ‘call the police’ that people started to realise.

That just made my day.

└ Tags: , , ,
Comments Off