Early life
Coover was born in Iowa on July 14, 1969. [1] [2] She is 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 to 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]
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