Today in Comics History, July 24: Happy birthday, Colleen Doran!

Born on this day: writer/artist Colleen Doran, one of the major figures in indie comics (and comics for the Big Two or Three) since the 1980s (A Distant Soil, Wonder Woman, Comic Book Tattoo,Morrison Hotel, Mangaman, Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Amazing Fantastic Incredible: Stan Lee, The Sandman, American Gods, Orbiter, Snow, Glass, Apples, Spider-Man and many more!)


from A Distant Soil (1996 series) #35 (Image, November 2002)



Photos of Colleen! (The "me" in the caption of the bottom picture is Jeff Smith.)




from (top) A Distant Soil (1996 series) #25 (Image, June 1998),
(middle) A Distant Soil #35,
(bottom)from "A Moveable Pizza Party" in Bone: Coda (Cartoon Books, August 2016)
According to the authorized 2003 book Sandman: King of Dreams, Sandman's character Thessaly is based upon Colleen! She didn't draw Thessaly first (that was Shawn McManus)...


from Sandman (1989 series) #32 (DC, November 1991), script by Neil Gaiman, pencils and inks by Shawn McManus, colors by Daniel Vozzo, letters by Todd Klein
...but she did get to draw her later in the storyline!


from Sandman (1989 series) #34 (DC, November 1991), script by Neil Gaiman, pencils by Colleen Doran, inks by George Pratt and Dick Giordano, colors by Daniel Vozzo, letters by Todd Klein
Happy birthday, Colleen!