Colleen Coover

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Colleen Coover
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Coover at Stumptown Comics Festival 2007
BornColleen Ann Coover
(1969-07-14) July 14, 1969 (age 54)
Iowa, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s) Cartoonist, Penciller
Notable works
Spouse(s) Paul Tobin
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Colleen Coover (born July 14, 1969) is a comic book artist and author based in Portland, Oregon and is known for creating 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 on July 14, 1969. [1] [2] She identifies as bisexual. [3] [4] Coover met writer Paul Tobin 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 August 25, 2007. [5] [6]

Coover grew up reading comics. [7] She dropped out of art school and says that she is entirely self-taught as a comic book artist. [8] She began drawing comics after meeting her husband. [7]

She credits the Hernandez brothers, Milton Caniff, Wendy Pini, Seth's Palookaville , Peter Arno, Dan DeCarlo, Curt Swan, and Neal Adams as artistic influences. [7]

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, [9] and Dark Horse Comics.

Her first major comics project was Small Favors, a sex-positive, woman-friendly adult comic published from 2000-2003. [10]

She illustrated the graphic novels Gingerbread Girl (2011) and Banana Sunday (2006), both written by Paul Tobin. [11] [12]

Since 2012 she has illustrated the digital comic Bandette, also written by Paul Tobin. [13] Bandette was nominated for four Eisner Awards, and won the award for Best Digital/Webcomic in 2016. [14] She won the Eisner Award again in 2017 for Best Digital Comic with Bandette.

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. [15]

She is the author of the 2012 short story "Home Port." [16]

Bibliography

Comics

Books

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