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Colleen Doran
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Official Account. Eisner, Bram Stoker Award, Ringo Award, Locus Award. Graphic novels, comics, illustration. Amazon Affiliate partner. Managed by able and worthy assistant, because deadlines are deadlines and social media is a time and energy sink.
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My new cover for The Rising Knight by Catherine Akel, coming in March from Simon and Schuster. amzn.to/48Aipf8
A handsome young blond king in pahe yellow robes with red lions emblazoned on his tunic. He is sitting on a throne a beautiful queen in elaborate robes of ermine and fleur de lis patterns at his right hand, and at his other hand, a brown haired grim faces older handsome knight in golden tunic with small diamond patters, The background is a very deep red with a small crown patter, and tendrils of thorns.
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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I saved this. It meant a lot to me.
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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My final art pen and ink with digital color for the variant cover of HOTEL BETHESDA starring SQUID GAME actor Yang Dong Geun, 7 hours to go, a few hundred dollars to goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tdl...
#squidgame #yangdonggeun #comics #variantcover #penandink #tdlstudios
Surreal image of a Korean man swirling among doors and stairs. There are several keys. Space and swirling colors, a hypnotic feel.
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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My crazy, funny, much beloved friend Keith Giffen. Love you forever.
Keith Giffen and Colleen Doran at the Edgar Allen Poe museum. They are standing at the side of a bust of Poe. They are in front of a brick wall.
November 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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KINUKO Y. CRAFT Last Call with buy 2 get 1 FREE. The gallery is SHUTTING DOWN, Kinuko is 86 in January. and this inventory needs to go. CLICK THE LINK. borsini-burr.com/artists/kinu...
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Only a few days left to support HOTEL BETHESDA starring SQUID GAME actor, rapper, multi-hyphenate entertainer Korea’s own Yang Dong Geun! (I'm doing a variant cover, BTW) www.kickstarter.com/...
A screen shot of the Kickstarter pages featuring a panel from the comic that shows a man walking through a dark hallway in a hotel. Medium long shot in profile. Brown, greyish, gold colors.
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Happy to provide this Crowley sketch in exchange for a blood donation at the National Cartoonist’s Society Drawing Blood event for the Red Cross today! Thanks, Shannon! #goodomens #redcross #blooddrive #crowley
A woman with purple hair. She is wearing a Dr Who David Tennant shirt and she is holding a wizard gnome statue.
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I'll be at CARTOONISTS DRAW BLOOD American Red Cross Saturday, November 22, 2025 from 8AM-1:30PM at Gainesville United Methodist Church 13710 Milestone Court, Gainesville, VA 20155. Blood donors meet local cartoonists and take home a complementary sketch. www.redcrossblood.or...
Photograph of cartoonists at last year's blood drive fundraiser
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Best Internet Meme Ever.
A painting by Waterhouse which originally showed Narcissus gazing at his image in a pool, only in the doctored image, he is instead looking down at a large smart phone where the lake was, which reflects to him his selfie on Instagram.
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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About 1/3 of the prints have been sold already. Make no mistake, they are SPECTACULAR QUALITY with the finest production values and fine art gallery standards. They will never be available again.
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Learn about the great cartoonist and illustrator Ethyl Hays. colleendoran.substack.com/p/ethyl-hays
A summary of the career of cartoonist Ethyl Hays: After years of war, the American public clamored for optimistic, light-hearted entertainment. Ethel Hays captured this spirit with her drawings of young, liberated American girls. The Hays heroines were sleek, well-dressed, athletic, exuberant flappers. Her peerless draughtsmanship and elegant linework, combined with her penchant for pretty girls, made Hays one of the most popular cartoonists of the time. Features a snippet of one of her cartoons showing a spoof of male and female 1920's dressing modes.
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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If you haven’t checked them out yet, make sure to visit our friends at Clan McDonald Comics, located at 710 E Ogden Ave, Suite 600 in Naperville, Illinois — now open six days a week, Monday through Saturday!

👉 Join their Facebook community here:
www.facebook.com/groups/16291...
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Learned this one from Frank Kelly Freas. Almost none of the artists I know do this.

One of your best art reference and art book resources: auction catalogues. Sotheby’s, Christies especially. Sometimes I pay as little as $4 per catalogue. colleendoran.substack.com/p/reference-...
A photograph of a stack of auction catalogues featuring 19th century art.
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I'm giving the DARKANGEL Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce a reread after many years, very much enjoying it. I do not love the generic covers on later editions. Mine have stunning Kinuko Y Craft paintings instead! Don't know why publishers don't license older cover art. amzn.to/4oGpa5K
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Sketch study of Elvish hairstyles for Thranduil.
A handsome elvish man with a complex hairpiece made of leaves and berries.
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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When your old Lord of the Rings fan art shows up at an estate auction. I was a teenager when I drew these, with the Ralph Bakshi film version in my head.
A brightly colored picture of Gandalf and Frodo walking on a stone pathway through the Shire.
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Check it out! Sale on this amazong BEEHIVE BOOKS bundle! www.instagram.com/p/...
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Happy Hallowe'en! Pen and ink, circa about 1986 from a vampire project that never went anywhere.
October 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I- I don't know what to say...
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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A short video tour of my studio. www.instagram.com/p/DQS7Dm3Db0J/
A screen shot of a video with commentary of Colleen Doran's studio. There is a parquet floor in a warm light wood hue. A gaming chair with a red pillow, two computers with fireplace screen savers running, a drawing board, and many shelves with books and drawers. There are many pictures on the wall.
October 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Less than one day left to support LEGENDS OF INDIE COMICS a prose anthology featuring original short story and art by me from A DISTANT SOIL as well as works by producer Mark Verheiden and my favorites, Walt Simonson, Donna Barr and Roberta Gregory! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pla...
A group picture of a number of independent comics characters from the 1980's.
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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It's been a rough while, but amazing how things are trending upward. So many projects on the plate. Tons of commissions to clear first. Here's a Spider-Man, Black Cat commission in pen and ink.
Black Costume Spider-man and Black Cat. He is swinging from the top left of the image on a web thread and she is clinging to him with her arm around his neck. Both face the viewer.
October 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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A really interesting commission. Ernie Colon frequently destroyed his original art, but someone fished this torn up unused cover art out of the trash decades ago. Pieces were missing. I was asked to draw in the missing pieces in Ernie's style. I think I matched it pretty well!
A cover from the comic Amethyst which shows a large portrait of Amethyst and her in a smaller figure as Amy being menaced by some monsters.
October 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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My first GOOD OMENS commission was done at New York Comic Con! Crowley, bringing the suave.
Portrait of CROWLEY from GOOD OMENS wearing a slender black suit and tie. "Crowley, here to muck up your cell phone service" is written on the page.
October 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM