Colleen Coover
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July 14, 1969
- Small Favors
- Banana Sunday
- Bandette
| Colleen Coover | |
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 Coover at Stumptown Comics Festival 2007 | |
| Born | Colleen Ann Coover July 14, 1969 Iowa, U.S. |
| Area | Cartoonist, Penciller |
Notable works |
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| Spouse | Paul Tobin |
| CooverArt.com | |
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.
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]
