Colleen Doran

Colleen Doran (born July 24, 1963) is an American comic book writer and artist, best known for her fantasy series A Distant Soil. Doran broke into the comic book industry when still a teenager, in the 1980s. A Distant Soil was originally published by Wendy and Richard Pini's WaRP Graphics, publishers of Elfquest, but Doran subsequently left the company due to an acrimonious dispute with Richard Pini, whom she alleged was attempting to claim copyr... more

Colleen Doran (born July 24, 1963) is an American comic book writer and artist, best known for her fantasy series A Distant Soil. Doran broke into the comic book industry when still a teenager, in the 1980s. A Distant Soil was originally published by Wendy and Richard Pini's WaRP Graphics, publishers of Elfquest, but Doran subsequently left the company due to an acrimonious dispute with Richard Pini, whom she alleged was attempting to claim copyright on her work. The WaRP version of the story was never reprinted, despite its unusual all-pencil style, although Colleen Doran did reprint a short Distant Soil story that had appeared in a WaRP anthology. Doran has since illustrated hundreds of comics, graphic novels, books and magazines and dozens of stories and articles. At the age of five, she won an art contest sponsored by the Walt Disney Company. Doran created her comic book series A Distant Soil at the age of twelve. She landed her first professional assignment for an advertising... less