Colleen Coover
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Coover at Stumptown Comics Festival 2007
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| Born | Colleen Ann Coover July 14, 1969 Iowa |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Penciller |
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Notable works
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Small Favors Banana Sunday |
| http://www.CooverArt.com | |
Colleen Coover (born July 14, 1969) is a comic book artist and author based in Portland, Oregon and is known for creating 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.
Coover was born in Iowa on July 14, 1969. She identifies as bisexual. In a question and answer with comic book website Project Fanboy, Coover spoke of her long term involvement with Marvel Comics writer Paul Tobin, whom she met initially at a drama class and would go on to meet again at a local comic book store she regularly frequented. Coover and Tobin were married August 25, 2007. Now the two work together on the Eisner Award-winning series Bandette.
Coover grew up reading comics. She dropped out of art school and says that she is entirely self-taught as a comic book artist. She began drawing comics after meeting her husband.
She credits the Hernandez brothers, Milton Caniff, Wendy Pini, Seth's Palookaville, Peter Arno, Dan DeCarlo, Curt Swan, and Neal Adams as artistic influences.
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, and Dark Horse Comics.
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