New Releases by Colleen Doran

Just imagine! A full house of top indie comics characters, reunited in this second volume of prose fiction tales by the genius creators who first breathed life into them in the 1980s and beyond! Whether you lovingly remember these heroes and creators or are meeting them for the first time, you are in for a wild ride with this star-studded cast. They set the industry on fire in comics from indie publishing pioneers like First, AC, Capital, Charlton, Dynamite, Eclipse, Dark Horse, Fantagraphics, and Vortex. Now, more than ever, we need them to remind us how fun and exciting comics can be. Strap in for a lineup unlike any you’ve seen before, crashing together old school indie pioneers and the new school trendsetters who continue to build on the revolution they started. The individual stories of each character—and the first-ever crossover event bringing many of them together—will take your breath away! Strap in for an awesome lineup, a dream team with the same raw power and quirky charm as that in Volume 1…and then some! Get a load of these superstars: · Mike Baron - Author, Nexus · Donna Barr – Author/Illustrator, The Desert Peach · Bill Black – Author/Illustrator, Femforce · Mark and Vaughn Bodē – Authors/Illustrators, Cheech Wizard and Junkwaffel · Gary Carlson – Author, Megaton · Howard Chaykin – Author/Illustrator, "Shabbos Goy" · Colleen Doran – Author/Illustrator, A Distant Soil · Garth Ennis – Author, Jamie · Steven Grant – Author, Twilight Man · Roberta Gregory – Author/Illustrator, Bitchy Bitch · James Artimus Owen – Author/Illustrator, Starchild · David Quinn – Author, Faust · Walter Simonson – Author/Illustrator, Star Slammers · John K. Snyder III – Author/Illustrator, Fashion in Action · Joe and Hilarie Staton – Authors (and Illustrator, Joe Staton), E-Man and Nova Kane · Jan Strnad – Author, Dalgoda · Ty Templeton – Author/Illustrator, Stig's Inferno · Mark Verheiden – Author, The American · Henry Vogel – Author, Aristocratic Xtraterrestrial Time-Traveling Thieves (aka X-Thieves) · Mark Wheatley – Author/Illustrator, Frankenstein Mobster · Bill Willingham – Author/Illustrator, Pantheon

Celebrating Wonder Woman’s 80th anniversary, Sensational Wonder Woman explores everything that makes Wonder Woman the sensational hero that she is. Sensational Wonder Woman Volume 1 collects issues 1-6 of the series.

In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee—comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes—shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be. Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. The most legendary name in the history of comic books, he was the leading creative force behind Marvel Comics, and brought to life—and into the mainstream—some of the world’s best-known heroes and most infamous villains throughout his career. His stories—filled with superheroes struggling with personal hang-ups and bad guys who possessed previously unseen psychological complexity—added wit and subtlety to a field previously locked into flat portrayals of good vs. evil. Lee put the human in superhuman and in doing so, created a new mythology for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In this beautifully illustrated graphic memoir—illustrated by celebrated artist Colleen Doran—discover the true story behind the man, written with the same inimitable wit, energy, and offbeat spirit that he brought to the world of comics. Moving from his impoverished childhood in Manhattan to his early days writing comics, through his military training films during World War II and the rise of the Marvel empire in the 1960s to the current cinematic resurgence, Amazing Fantastic Incredible documents the life of a man and the legacy of an industry and career. This funny, moving, and incredibly honest memoir is a must-have for collectors and fans of comic books and graphic novels of every age.

Elena, Stefan and Damon make their comics debut in a new series based on the hit CW television show! This anthology graphic novel will bring some of comics' greatest talents to Mystic Falls and set them loose to bring the characters to life. Or death. They are vampires, you know. THE VAMPIRE DIARIES is a must-read for any fan of this runaway hit TV series. Collects digital chapters #1-39.

A small team of champions band together to protect young Liana from the Hierarchy, a corrupt otherworld government determined to destroy her. Unknown to the Hierarchy, Seren, their enshrined Avatar, a powerful psionic and religious leader, secretly aids Liana, and plots a coup to overthrow his masters.

Collects A Distant Soil 1-7! The first new edition of the out of print A DISTANT SOIL, VOL. 1 collection returns in a spectacular, digitally re-mastered volume! This beautiful and critically acclaimed series has not had a new edition in seventeen years. Now, digital technology allows us to bring you a more beautiful presentation than ever before. Every single page has been completely restored, and re-lettered, with a new and stunning die cut cover! This is THE DEFINITIVE VERSION fans have been waiting for!

Over 80 of the best creators from every style and genre have contributed over 50 stories to this anthology featuring tales inspired by the songs of multi-platinum recording artist, Tori Amos! Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman, with stories by creators such as Carla Speed McNeil, Mark Buckingham, C.B. Cebulski, Nikki Cook, Hope Larson, John Ney Reiber, Ryan Kelly, and many, many others, Comic Book Tattoo encapsulates the breadth, depth, and beauty of modern comics in this coffee table format book.

Get real! Open this book and step inside the "real world" of creating professional-looking, publishable comics. Since landing her first professional gig at age 15, superstar cartoonist Colleen Doran has accumulated more than 500 credits to her name as an artist, writer and designer. In this book, she shares the firsthand lessons she's learned along the way, giving you a genuine, real-world understanding of how to create polished, publishable manga comics and graphic novels using the same methods the pros use! This is the kind of valuable insider information you won't find in other how-to books ... stuff that Colleen wishes she knew when she was starting out, including how to: Develop stories in the Japanese manga style versus a traditional Western style of comics. Turn your everyday experiences and observations into viable characters and plots. Use backgrounds to enhance characters' thoughts and actions. Perfect the art of lettering and word balloons. Convert a script into a comic or graphic novel, step by step Lay out dramatic and expressive pages. Create a cover for your manga. Submit a book package to a publisher. Explore alternative publishing options, such as self-publishing, blogs, fanzines and mini-comics. With step-by-step instruction and "assignments" throughout, this book will help you tailor classic techniques to suit your own unique style, and guide you toward your creative destiny.

How to Draw the Hottest Shoujo Manga From the creative mind of superstar comic artist Colleen Doran, Girl to Grrrl Manga is your invitation to the drama, high romance and dreamlike settings of shoujo manga! Page after page of step-by-step instruction lets you get right to it as you learn the simple tricks to drawing different shoujo looks. Beautiful, glamorous girls in funky costumes. Gorgeous guys with smoldering, direct gazes and tortured storylines. Dazzling characters with supermodel-lean builds, voluminous hair and those enormous, liquid eyes that swim with emotion. Inside, you'll learn to draw faces and figures from different perspectives and to various dramatic effects. Discover the secrets to drawing hands, tearful eyes, fantastic costumes, and other fun and expressive facets of shoujo art. You'll see how the smallest details, like extra-long eyelashes or a highlight on the lips, can make the biggest difference! So you want to draw like CLAMP (Cardcaptor Sakura and CLAMP School Detectives), or Mineo Maya (Patalliro), or Fuyumi Soryo (Mars) ... or (best of all) uniquely like YOU?! With Girl to Grrrl Manga, you'll learn to recognize and replicate authentic shoujo styles—classic, contemporary, retro, children's, aesthetic, modern, illustrative—on your way to achieving your own, fabulous, one-of-a-kind style.

With special photography, Drawing Action Comics: Easel Does It shows how to draw and color action superheroes, and how to place them in exciting scenes ten creative step-by-step projects, demonstrating how to draw and ink larger-than-life figures, how to get action into your artwork, how to use color creatively, and how to make your male, female, and otherworldly superheroes come alive all materials, equipment, and techniques needed to create superheroes are fully explained and accompanied by a gallery of action heroes by professional artists