- Colleen Coover
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Colleen Coover 
Colleen CooverBorn 1969
IowaNationality American Area(s) Cartoonist, Penciller Notable works Small Favors
Banana SundayOfficial website Colleen Coover (born 1969[1]) is a comic book artist, based in Portland, Oregon. She is probably best known as creator of the lesbian-themed erotic comic book Small Favors from Eros Comix, illustrator of the comic book limited series Banana Sunday from Oni Press, and for illustrating several short stories in X-Men: First Class from Marvel Comics.
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Early life
Coover was born in Iowa. She identifies as bisexual.[2] In a question and answer with comic book website Project Fanboy, Coover spoke of her long term involvement with Marvel Comics writer Paul Tobin, whom she met initially at a drama class and would go on to meet again at a local comic book store she regularly frequented. Coover and Tobin were married in August 2007.[3]
Career
Coover has contributed comic work to Out magazine and has done illustration and cover design for various publications, including On Our Backs, Girlfriends, Curve, Kitchen Sink, and Nickelodeon Magazine; and for publishers including Buckle Down Publishing, Alyson Books, Cleis Press,[4] and Dark Horse Comics.
She illustrated the graphic novel Gingerbread Girl.[5]
Coover is a member of Periscope Studio and the Comic Art Collective.
Coover participated in the panels: "Prism Queer Press Grant Portfolio Review", "Love is in the Air: LGBT Romance Comics", and "Women of Marvel" at the San Diego Comic Convention 2009.[6]
Bibliography
Comics
- The Age of The Sentry #3: "She Loved A Monster!" (2008)
- Amazing Spider-Girl #25-28
- Amazing Spider-Man Family #3-4
- Fantastic Four Giant-Size Adventures #1: "Susan Storm and Misty Knight in: The Importance of Being Invisible" (August 2009, 9 pages)
- Girl Comics #1: "Introduction" (May 2010)
- I Am An Avenger #4: "Then And Now" (February 2011)
- Iron Man and Power Pack #4: "Dog & Pony Show" (April 2008)
- King-Size Spider-Man Summer Special # 1: "Un-Enchanted Evening" (2008)
- Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers #1: "Thor Frog Origin Thingy" (July 2009)
- Models Inc #3: "Brains!" (back-up story) (December 2009)
- Power Pack: Day One #1-4 (May–August 2008)
- Tails Of The Pet Avengers #1: Terrier On The High Seas (story and art) and Birds of a Different Feather (April 2010)
- Uncanny X-Men: First Class #1 (inked, joint-colored, joint-lettered)[7]
- Wolverine: First Class #8: "Kitty’s Dream" (December 2008)
- X-Men: First Class #3, 5-6, 9, 11-15 (October 2007 - October 2008)
- X-Men: First Class Finals #1-3 (April–June 2009)
- X-Men First Class Special: "The Key; Men Fear the Blob; The Mental Might of Marvel Girl" (July 2009)[8]
Books
- Small Favors Volume 1 (2002)
- Small Favors Volume 2 (2003)
- Banana Sunday (2006)
- Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers (2009) H/B inc. "Terrier On The High Seas" written & drawn by Colleen Coover; "Birds Of A Different Feather"
- Sentry: The Age of the Sentry (2009) inc. The Age of The Sentry #3: She Loved A Monster! [9]
- Spider-Man: Amazing Friends inc. Take a Seat!
- Spider-Man: Spider-Women Digest (May 2009) inc. Un-enchanted Evening (from King-Size Spider-Man Summer Special #1)
- X-Men First Class: Mutant Mayhem (2008) inc. X-Men: First Class (2007) 1-5 and X-Men: First Class Special #1
- X-Men First Class: Band of Brothers (2008) inc. X-Men: First Class (2007) 6-10
- X-Men First Class: The Wonder Years (2009) inc. X-Men: First Class (2007) 11-16 and Giant-Size X-Men: First Class
- X-Men First Class: Finals (2009) inc. Scott and Jean Are On a Date! and X-Date Part 2 and X-Date Part 3
- Gingerbread Girl (2011) (with Paul Tobin)
References
- ^ Kaufman, Logan (March 2006), "Colleen Coover: Monkeys and Cubbies!", Adventure Underground, http://www.advunderground.com/interviews/coover0306.php, retrieved 2007-08-23.
- ^ "Creators: Colleen Coover" (– Scholar search), Gay League, archived from the original on 2007-05-24, http://web.archive.org/web/20070524151102/http://www.gayleague.com/gay/creators/colleencoover.php, retrieved 2007-08-23.
- ^ Project Fanboy Question & Answer with Colleen Coover
- ^ "Colleen Coover", Prism Comics, http://www.prismcomics.org/profile.php?id=64, retrieved 2007-08-23.
- ^ Gingerbread Girl at colleencoover.net, http://www.colleencoover.net/?page_id=13, retrieved 2009-02-09.
- ^ San Diego Comic Convention at colleencoover.net, http://www.colleencoover.net/?p=856, retrieved 2009-07-30
- ^ Uncanny X-Men: First Class Marvel Catalog, Marvel Comics, http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=12313/, retrieved 2009-07-30.
- ^ Marvel Bibliography at colleencoover.net, http://www.colleencoover.net/, retrieved 2009-05-22.
- ^ Age Of The Sentry Marvel Catalog, Marvel Comics, http://www.marvel.com/catalog/?id=12043/, retrieved 2009-06-05.
External links
- Official website
- Coover's page at Comic Art Collective
- Interview with Colleen Coover at Sequential Tart, December 2003
- Two Scoops of Banana Sunday at Publishers Weekly, March 28, 2006
Categories:- American cartoonists
- American comics artists
- Bisexual artists
- LGBT comics creators
- People from Portland, Oregon
- Female comics artists
- Female comics writers
- Living people
- 1969 births
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