Tomm Coker

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Tomm Coker
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Coker at the New York Comic Con in Manhattan, October 9, 2010.
BornThomas Coker
(1972-11-03) November 3, 1972 (age 51)
Sacramento, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Comics artist, film director/writer
Pseudonym(s)Thomas L. Coker

Tomm Coker, also known as Thomas L. Coker (born November 3, 1972), [1] is an American comic book artist and film director/writer.

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Career

Coker's career started in the early nineties drawing comic books for Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Throughout the 1990s he worked on such titles as Gen 13 Bootleg , Nightfall: The Black Chronicles and Penthouse Comix.

After a short absence, he returned to comics in 2003, illustrating the popular Vertigo mini-series Blood & Water . [2] This series also marked a stylistic change, in which his art evolved in a much more realistic direction.

His short film A Day Between premiered at the 2003 Sacramento International Film and Music Festival. His first feature-length film, Catacombs , starring Shannyn Sossamon and pop singer Pink, was released in 2007. [3] [4] [5] [6]

In 2009, he drew MTV's "motion comic" series Audio Quest: A Captain Lights Adventure, starring the singer Lights. [7] [8]

Works

Films

Comics

Role-playing games

Notes

  1. "Thomas L. Coker". California Birth Index. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  2. Brady, Matt. "Looking Back and Around with Tomm Coker", Newsarama, August 30, 2004[ dead link ]
  3. Brady, Matt. "Tomm Coker Talks Catacombs", Newsarama, March 11, 2005[ dead link ]
  4. (October 19, 2007). "Estrenos: Catacumbas", Mural , p. 8.
  5. Markham-Smith, Ian (March 4, 2005). "Tickled Pink by film role", Daily Mirror , p. 14.
  6. Mayne, Jane (May 23, 2008). "Catacombs", Cape Times , p. 6.
  7. (November 28, 2009). "Global pulse: Lights on", Billboard 121 (47): 34–35.
  8. Caldwell, Patrick (April 15, 2010). "Lighting up pop life", Austin American-Statesman , p. T8.
  9. (January 6, 2012). "Screen talk", The Independent , p. 10.
  10. (July 15, 2011). "Screen talk: True blood ways", The Independent .
  11. "Image Comics, The Black Monday Murders". Image Comics. May 18, 2016. Archived from the original on September 9, 2016. Retrieved September 9, 2016. Archive requires scrolldown
  12. "Tomm Coker". Archived from the original on February 21, 2005.

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