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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.
My new cover for The Rising Knight by Catherine Akel, coming in March from Simon and Schuster. amzn.to/48Aipf8
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I saved this. It meant a lot to me.
December 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
My crazy, funny, much beloved friend Keith Giffen. Love you forever.
November 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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
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/...
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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...
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Best Internet Meme Ever.
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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
Learn about the great cartoonist and illustrator Ethyl Hays. colleendoran.substack.com/p/ethyl-hays
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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:
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November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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-...
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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
Sketch study of Elvish hairstyles for Thranduil.
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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.
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Check it out! Sale on this amazong BEEHIVE BOOKS bundle! www.instagram.com/p/...
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Happy Hallowe'en! Pen and ink, circa about 1986 from a vampire project that never went anywhere.
October 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I- I don't know what to say...
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A short video tour of my studio. www.instagram.com/p/DQS7Dm3Db0J/
October 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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...
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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.
October 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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!
October 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
My first GOOD OMENS commission was done at New York Comic Con! Crowley, bringing the suave.
October 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM