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Colleen’s ebay sales…THE FINAL FURY! Sandman, A Distant Soil, Book of Lost Souls, Power Pack, Legion of Superheroes UNPUBLISHED, plus Lord of the Rings swag!

by Colleen Doran on October 5th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work, Culture, Comics, DC Comics, Culture, Comics, Marvel Comics, Culture, Comics, DC Comics, Sandman

I set aside many more pieces of art to sell, but I just can’t take it any more. This is the last round. I won’t be posting anything else for at least six months.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for your VERY generous support. Not only am I absolutely amazed at the great response to these sales, I am so very happy to know I can rely on my pile o’ art to fund a good deal of the end of A Distant Soil next year. How far that will go, I do not know. But I had no idea people would be so interested in my sketches and prelims. Holy cow. Very flattering and encouraging!

OK, here’s the last of it.

A very nice and tight Sandman prelim intended for The Sandman Gallery. I am stunned to find this. I did not know when I got the assignment that I’d have an opportunity to paint a piece, and did this sketch with inks in mind.

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One of the few pieces I have ever made available from the A Distant Soil prequel Seasons of Spring, which is out of print. This piece was a promotional pin-up showing the Scott family with tiny Jason and Liana, siblings, mom Jessica, and alien dad Aeren. Pen and ink.

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An unused splash page from Power Pack issue #1, showing Julie Power battling a snark. Pencils.



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An unpublished page from The Book of Lost Souls issue #7, showing the new villain who will probably never get published now, using tarot cards to scare the crap out of a football jock with a girlie underwear fetish. This was part of the Kranner Art Museum’s exhibit “Out of Sequence”.


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And wow, here’s a treat. Back when I was in high school, I was in The Legion of Superheroes apazine, INTERLAC. Keith Giffen saw my art in the zine and asked if I would like to audition to be the series artist on Legion. Alas, I already had a letter of agreement with Publisher Zero to do A Distant Soil. And we all know how that went.

But behold, my audition page. I doubt I would have gotten the job, but I was cognizant of the need for speed as a pro artist, and wrote in the margins how much time it took me to draw each page. This page took 3 hours and 28 minutes.

At some point, I went through that page and erased all my lettering. I did not know artists weren’t supposed to add that stuff. And my writing sucked.


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I have a couple of other auctions up as well, but the big stuff is all Lord of the Rings collectibles, payment from a vendor who owed me a lot of dough. I got paid in Samwise Gamgee heads. Among other things. Since I am going to New Zealand in a matter of weeks, what better way to finance cocktails at the base of Mount Doom then by selling a few of these babies? Check out the great low prices on a few of those toys!

I’ve been hanging on to this stuff for years hoping to get my investment back. Providence, don’t let me down!

After all this, a frantic week of shipping. Oh, boy!

And we are only 225 people away from my 2000 followers goal on Twitter. When I hit the magic number, ONE of you will win a $300 prize package of books featuring my work and original art from A Distant Soil. You’ll get Orbiter by Warren Ellis, The Book of Lost Souls by J Michael Straczynksi, Amazing Spider-Man 326, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #600 AND an advance copy of MANGAMAN, my NEW graphic novel by Barry Lyga, not in stores for a month!

Also, FIFTY followers will get an autographed comic from me! ANY follower in the first 2000 can win!

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Unpublished Sandman, Star Wars, Tarzan, Fallen Angels and rarely seen short story art for sale

by Colleen Doran on September 18th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work

My art sale auctions continue! CLICK HERE TO BUY!

The last of my art will post on October 1. Then all of my direct art and books sales are suspended until further notice. Of course, you can still buy my books at stores and other online shops, but I’ll be out of the country and unable to handle mail order. If you want to buy any books or art for Christmas, now is the last chance to get them from me.

On sale now, a full page of Sandman and Death prelims for The Sandman 20th anniversary exhibit at Gallery Nucleus.


The final version of this piece was shown HERE.

One of the last two Star Wars Clone Wars Widescreen Artist Proof Sketch cards. These are getting very high prices. I am really glad people like them!

A page of practice doodles for an unpublished official Tarzan project for European publisher Semic. Circa about 1994.

An unpublished Fallen Angels II cover sketch for the unpublished KIA series by Marvel. Circa 1987.

A rarely seen splash page from the short story “Eugenie”, which I wrote and drew in the 1980′s, and reprinted in a later issue of A Distant Soil. One of my favorite pieces, as a straight on romance, this is not the sort of thing publishers usually go for, but if the prices I’ve been getting on the original art are any indication, the public likes it fine.

One of the frustrating things about being an illustrator is seeing your favorite art get lower prices because it is not connected to a major project from a big client. A beautiful page can go for chump change because it wasn’t drawn for The X-Men. When art from an obscure project like this gets a good price, it is very gratifying.

This go-round of auctions has been amazingly successful. I’d sworn off ebay some years ago, because not only do I not thrill to the terms, but my art prices were dropping and I had some serious problems with bidders.

Now my prices are significantly higher, and the collectors have been incredibly kind and supportive. This gives me confidence for financing more A Distant Soil next year, since most of my time will be eaten up by the end of the series. I have great confidence that I can finance the end without resorting to extreme fundraising. If I do have to go Kickstarter, I don’t think I’m going to need a big financial boost.

There are many more unseen pieces in my files I know people will want. But everything goes back off the market in a couple of weeks, so get what you can while you can!

Thank you for all your support!

When this round finishes, I think I will also be finished with Gone to Amerikay, and can start winding up my commissions list, as well as getting into serious work on my new GN for Dark Horse. Spent the last month doing layouts and taking reference photos!

Now, go read my A Distant Soil webcomic. It’s online and advertiser supported, so you don’t have to fork over the dough to feast your eyes. Isn’t that nice?

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Unpublished Legion of Superheroes VALOR art, Sandman-Death Gallery prelim, Lord of the Rings Art

by Colleen Doran on September 9th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work, Culture, Comics, DC Comics

Only a few weeks left for my humble art shop sale. Thanks SO MUCH for the great support and incredible kindness. I truly appreciate it.

I have some lovely new items for you.

First, the original preliminary sketch for The Death Gallery Holocaust theme painting I did for Vertigo back in 1994.

And here, a Lord of the Rings Masterpieces Series I trading card portrait of Boromir. Regular readers know I am filled with Boromir love, so this is…sob…kind of hard to let go!

A twofer! Both sides of this paper are filled with sketches for VALOR, The Legion of Superheroes spinoff series starring Mon-el. Click the ebay sales link to see the other sketches.

Thanks so much!

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UNPUBLISHED Star Wars, Sandman/Death, Wonder Woman, Lord of the Rings, Distant Soil now for sale

by Colleen Doran on September 5th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work

OK, my art and book sales end in four weeks and all my web sales are fini until at least March 2012. Maybe later. Can’t handle the workload. If you want to get original art or books from me, PLEASE ORDER NOW. I cannot do any sales after the first week of October.

Here’s this week’s selections in my ebay shop.

A Death Gallery preliminary sketch on the theme of The AIDS quilt. Circa about 1994. Sketches of Death sewing patches on the quilt. I went with a Holocaust theme instead. Unpublished and never before seen.

A very nice never seen Star Wars Clone Wars Artist Proof sketch card of Anakin Skywalker.

Completely authentic. Not aftermarket, not ACEO.

The original drawing for The Hobbit Feet is now offered for a limited time at $1000. If it doesn’t meet this price, it goes back off the market, because I know it will meet this price when The Hobbit comes out. This art has won several awards, was created for an official New Line sponsored show, and features the feet of Sam, Merry, Frodo and Pippin. It has been published.

Wonder Woman unused cover art. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

Final art AND all prelims for a page from Mascot, an original novel with comic book insert written by Peter David. This is a 3 page lot.

A very lovely portrait of Seren from A Distant Soil, which received bids from a buyer that did not pay their bill. So back on the block it goes. Bargain price:

The same bidder failed to pay for this auction: A classical study of a Greek youth.

All auctions are updated weekly, and most of these items end THIS WEEK. Please check back often.

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Unpublished Sandman and Orbiter Art Now Available UPDATED

by Colleen Doran on August 26th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work, Culture, Comics, DC Comics, Culture, Comics, DC Comics, Sandman

Two more unpublished pieces added to my ebay store. Previous (and now sold) sketches can be seen here.

Another page of Sandman sketches. I tucked these away ages ago thinking no one would have any interest in my scribbles. Ha and ha. I did not use much of this in the final Sandman Gallery piece for which it was intended, but here you can see the Morpheus and Orpheus piece I did years later for the Sandman 20th anniversary exhibit.

I went for an Gustave Moreau homage.

And these sketches were buried in the back of a file at DC Comics for some years. I think I got them back a year or so ago. The original character sketch for John Cost, the astronaut hero of the Orbiter graphic novel I drew for the delightful Warren Ellis.

EDIT: Most of this came from a huge pile of what looked like blank drawing paper. And wasn’t. In there I also found all the prelims, layouts, and unfinished pages for the Technique miniseries I worked on for Milestone, under Dwayne McDuffie and Matt Wayne. None of the work was ever published. I sold the lot to a devoted collector, while it probably would have gone for better prices at auction. C’est la vie.

I will try to find the time to post some of the other finds, and I will definitely be making more art available for sale in bits and pieces. I also found all the unpublished Marvel Comics Fallen Angels II cover prelims. Never seen anywhere.

As noted before, my last auctions will go up in late September, and then no more book sales or art sales either on my website or ebay for six months. Thank you for your kind patronage.

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