Colleen Coover (born Iowa, 1969[1]) is a comic book artist, based in Portland, Oregon, best known as creator of 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. The State of Iowa ( is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A comic book creator is any one of a number of people working to create a Comic book or Graphic novel. Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers A lesbian is a Woman who is romantically or sexually attracted only to other women A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Eros Comix is an adult-oriented imprint of Fantagraphics Books, established in 1990 to publish Pornographic Comic books. A limited series is a term originated by Marvel Comics referring to a Comic book series with a set number of issues Oni Press is an American independent Comic book publisher based in Portland Oregon. X-Men First Class is a Comic book series about the X-Men. It takes place during the starting years of the X-Men featuring the X-Men's original lineup Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc She is a member of Periscope Studio and the Comic Art Collective. Periscope Studio is a Portland Oregon -based illustration studio founded in 2002 as Mercury Studio She identifies as bisexual. Bisexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of both sexes or to a bisexual orientation [2]
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,[3] and Dark Horse Comics. Out ( is a popular Gay men 's Fashion, Entertainment, and Lifestyle Magazine, with the highest circulation of any gay monthly On Our Backs ( was the first women-run erotica magazine and the first magazine to feature Lesbian Erotica for a lesbian audience in the United States Girlfriends was a women's magazine that provides critical coverage of culture entertainment and world events from a Lesbian perspective Curve is the best-selling Lesbian Magazine in the United States. Kitchen Sink, published in Oakland California, was a Nonprofit, quarterly print magazine and monthly web publication that explored thought art culture Nickelodeon Magazine is a children's general interest and humor magazine published 11 months per year by the Nickelodeon cable TV channel Cleis Press is an independent publisher of books in the areas of sexuality erotica feminism gay and lesbian studies gender studies fiction and human rights Dark Horse Comics is one of the largest independent American Comic book publishers behind dominant publishers Marvel Comics and DC Comics
She is currently illustrating a graphic novel entitled Freckled Face, Bony Knees, And Other Things Known About Annah. A [4]
References
- ^ Kaufman, Logan (March, 2006), “Colleen Coover: Monkeys and Cubbies!”, Adventure Underground, <http://www.advunderground.com/interviews/coover0306.php>. Retrieved on 2007-08-23. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring on the feast day of Vulcan the Roman god of fire
- ^ “Creators: Colleen Coover”, Gay League, <http://www.gayleague.com/gay/creators/colleencoover.php>. Retrieved on 2007-08-23. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring on the feast day of Vulcan the Roman god of fire
- ^ “Colleen Coover”, Prism Comics, <http://www.prismcomics.org/profile.php?id=64>. Prism Comics is a Non-profit organization that supports Lesbian, Gay, bisexual and transgendered ( LGBT) creators Retrieved on 2007-08-23. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring on the feast day of Vulcan the Roman god of fire
- ^ Nickel, Thomas (2006), “Interview with Colleen Coover”, G Wie Gorilla, <http://g-wie-gorilla.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=103&Itemid=18>. Retrieved on 2007-08-23. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring on the feast day of Vulcan the Roman god of fire
External links
- cooverart.com, Coover's official website
- Colleen Coover, Coover's page at Comic Art Collective
- Interview with Colleen Coover at Sequential Tart, December 2003
- Two Scoops of Banana Sunday at Publishers Weekly, March 28, 2006
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