Colleen Coover

Colleen Coover at her booth at the 2007 Stumptown Comics Festival in Portland

Colleen Coover (born July 14, 1969 in Iowa ) is an American comic book artist and illustrator.

After dropping out of studies and working as a dishwasher, Coover made her debut as a comic artist in the 1994 anthology Attitude Lad (edited by Paul Tobin and Phil Hestr), published by Slave Labor Graphics . She came to this work, which was later also pursued as a profession, through her partner Paul Tobin, who, according to her, had the greatest influence on her (before Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez , Milton Caniff , Stan Sakai , Seth , Wally Wood , Rumiko Takahashi and Hilda Terry ) Had work, often scripts her work and lives and works with in Portland, Oregon . They married on August 25, 2007.

Coover's best-known work as a comic artist is the Small Favors series (sometimes with the subtitle “Small Favors” in the German-language edition), which has so far been available in two edited volumes. In it, the mostly erotic-pornographic adventures of the main characters Annie and Nibbil are told in short episodes in a humorous way Stories to have an open relationship with her. With this series, Coover primarily wanted to create lesbian pornography that should not be from a male- heterosexual perspective, but also and especially for women themselves, and should be primarily girlish, cute and happy in addition to the explicit representation of sexuality.

In addition, Coovers published the four-part series Banana Sunday , which was also published as an anthology, and drew some short stories for the spin-off series X-Men: First Class, published by Marvel Comics .

In addition to her work as a comic artist, she created illustrations for various magazines (including On Our Backs , Girlfriends , Curve , Kitchen Sink , Nickelodeon Magazine ) and publishers (including Buckle Down Publishing, Alyson Books and Cleis Press ). Her comics have also appeared in Out magazine and the yearbook My Secret Eye , as well as in the What's Right? Anthologies . (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003), True Porn (Alternative Comics, 2003) and Sexy Chix ( Dark Horse Comics , 2006).

Coover belongs to the Portland artist collective Periscope Studios. She is also an active member and since August 2004 on the Advisory Board of Prism Comics , a non-profit organization that advocates LGBT interests in the comic industry.

Publications (selection)

German

• Uli Meyer (ed. And ex.): Small Favors. girly sex comic , Volume 1. Konkursbuch Verlag Claudia Gehrke , Tübingen 2003. ISBN 3-88769-322-1 .
• Uli Meyer (ed. And ex.): Small Favors. girly sex comic , Volume 2. Konkursbuch Verlag Claudia Gehrke, Tübingen 2004. ISBN 3-88769-326-4 .
• Banana Sunday . Eidalon , Brandenburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-939585-10-7 .

English

• Small Favors: Girly Porno Comic Collection Book 1 . Eros Comix 2002. ISBN 1-56097-519-9 .
• Small Favors: Girly Porno Comic Collection Book 2 . Eros Comix 2003. ISBN 1-56097-634-9 .
• Banana Sunday . Oni Press 2006. ISBN 1-932664-37-8 .

French

• Banana Sunday (translated by Gabriel Colsim). Editions Albin Michel, 2007. ISBN 2-226-17775-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Colleen Coover in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website - English
• Colleen Coover at the bankruptcy book publisher
• Thomas Nickel: " Colleen Coover - Portrait & Work " on g-wie-gorilla.de , 2006.
• Douglas Wolk: Two Scoops of Banana Sunday ( May 19, 2009 memento on the Internet Archive ), Interview with Colleen Coover and Paul Tobin, Publishers Weekly , March 28, 2006 - English
• Interview with Colleen Coover in MP3 format (approx. 27 minutes) on cindycenter.com , August 7, 2007 - English

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Logan Kaufman: " Colleen Coover: Monkeys and Cubbies! ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note . "on advunderground.com , March 2006. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} See the interview in the afterword to Uli Meyer (ed. And ex.): Small Favors. girly sex comic , Volume 1. Tübingen 2003.
4. ^ Entry for Attitude Lad on atomicavenue.com .
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Profile of Colleen Cover ( Memento from December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on gayleague.com .
6. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Nickel: Interview with Colleen Coover ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on g-wie-gorilla.de , 2006. 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Marcia Allass: " Monkey Business ", Interview with Colleen Coover on sequentialtart.com December of 2003.
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Profile of Colleen Coover ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on prismcomics.org . 
9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
10. ↑ Short autobiography of Paul Tobin ( memento of the original from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on shocktraumastudios.com . 
11. ↑ Reviews of issue no. 3 ( Memento of March 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and the special ( Memento of February 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on theaxis.com .
12. ↑ Cover motif with your photo (3rd line, 2nd column) on the Dark Horse Comics homepage (accessed on August 13, 2013)
13. ↑ Review on StarBulletin (accessed August 13, 2013)
14. ↑ Douglas Wolk: " Portland's Periscope Is Up ( Memento June 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )", in: Publishers Weekly , August 7, 2007.
15. ^ Joseph Gallivan, " Sun shines on art late into the night, " in: The Portland Tribune , June 5, 2007.
16. ↑ Shawn Patty: " http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/news/109265845477148.htm ( Memento of December 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) ", on: silverbulletcomicbooks.com , August 16, 2004. (archive version )
17. ↑ Announcement on prismcomics.com , August 13, 2004