One of my main gigs during the Covid Years was illustrations for the social media accounts of the Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns soccer clubs: subjects ranged from dunking on rival teams, to photo-realistic portraits of players in their new kits, to PSAs about social distancing.
And in my me time, I knit sweaters. A lot of sweaters.
Unofficial, Unsanctioned, Unsolicited. Done for fun. All characters the property of DC Comics.
Wow, I haven’t done one of these for eight years! See also:
Batman,
Batman: The Strip,
Boy Wonder & World’s Mightiest Maid,
Superman’s Ex-Girlfriend, Lana Lang (part one)
In this story, please assume that Lana Lang is unaware of Superman’s secret identity. Enjoy.
A new digital issue of Bandette arrives Wednesday, May 2 on ComiXology!
An improperly used table fork! A Chihuahua on wheels! Delicious crêpes! A deceptive tape recording! A stolen sports car! An explosive museum visit! An illicitly bestowed panic button! All this and more as Bandette and her rivals continue their race to hold… The Six Finger Secret!
Like all previous issues, Bandette #17 sells on ComiXology for a mere 99¢!
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Bandette has been nominated for an Eisner Award in the category for Best Digital Comic! Bandette has won in the category three times previously; in 2013, 2016, and 2017! The full list of nominees for Best Digital Comic are:
Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain/comiXology)
Barrier, by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin (Panel Syndicate)
The Carpet Merchant of Konstaniniyya, by Reimena Yee (reimenayee.com/the-carpet-merchant)
Contact High, by James F. Wright and Josh Eckert (gumroad.com/l/YnxSm)
Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost, by Harvey Kurtzman, Josh O’Neill, Shannon Wheeler, and Gideon Kendall (comiXology Originals/Kitchen, Lind & Associates)
Quince, by Sebastian Kadlecik, Kit Steinkellner, and Emma Steinkellner, translated by Valeria Tranier (Fanbase Press/comiXology)
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Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection has been nominated for an Eisner in the category for Best Graphic Album: Reprint! This is the first Eisner nomination for publisher Limerence Press, and it owes so, so much to the efforts of editor Ari Yarwood and designer Hilary Thompson! Here’s the full list of nominees:
Boundless, by Jillian Tamaki (Drawn & Quarterly)
Fantagraphics Studio Edition: Black Hole by Charles Burns, edited by Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)
Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection, by Colleen Coover (Oni/Limerence)
Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero, by Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
Unreal City, by D. J. Bryant (Fantagraphics)
New cover by Colleen Coover!
Paul Tobin and I are super excited to announce that Banana Sunday will be available again from its original publisher, Oni Press, on October 24, 2018! Originally released in 2006, the new edition has been remastered with spectacular colors by Rian Sygh, and it has been revised and edited for today’s readers! Also, we’ve changed the writer’s credit to Paul Tobin‘s name, rather than the pseudonym Root Nibot.
Banana Sunday is a comedy for readers of all ages that explores the themes of alienation, self-doubt, and the power of friendship. You know, high school. Banana Sunday was listed as one of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Great Graphic Novels for Teens for 2007.
We welcome this opportunity to share our early all-ages work with a new audience of readers, young and old!
“Kirby Steinberg is having a bit of trouble fitting into her new school. Sure, there’s the usual problems associated with being from “somewhere else,†but this time the new kid also happens to be the guardian for three talking primates. Chuck, the professorial orangutan. Knobby, the love-stricken spider monkey. Go-Go, the befuddled golden gorilla. These primates have learned to speak, thanks to the scientific processes of Kirby’s father. Or have they? What’s their real story? That’s what Nickels—Kirby’s new best friend and unfortunately dedicated school reporter—would like to discover. Can Kirby find time to develop a relationship with Martin, the dashing nerd? Steer clear of Skye, the high school’s #1 pillar of arrogance? Keep Knobby, Chuck and Go-Go from causing untold catastrophes? And, above all, will Kirby be able to hide the real origin of these three simians from Nickels? Oh, probably not.â€
New colors by Rian Sygh
The files for Bandette digital episode 16 have been uploaded and are being processed for release by ComiXology! Tentative release date is October 18!
Original Format
My 2012 homage to the horror tales of the comics of the 1970’s, “Rose’s Heart”, is back online! I’ve reformatted the 8-page comic into 3 parts and uploaded it to the comics app Webtoons.
Webtoons Scrolling Format
The scrolling format of Webtoons was totally new to me, so the reformatting process was a challenge I really dug! The app is free to all readers, so don’t hesitate to download it to your phone or mobile device (and then search for “Colleen Coover” to find my story). There’s some really good stuff on there!
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But that’s not all the news for “Rose’s Heart”! It has just been added to the freshly Kickstarter funded anthology Gothic Tales Of Haunted Love from Bedside Press!
Gothic Tales Of Haunted Love from Bedside Press. Cover art by Leslie Doyle
A modern re-imagining of this genre, the stories feature a diverse range of heroes and villains from some of comics finest talent, and will likely feature a few stories of a woman in a white dress running away from a scary house.
Gothic Tales Of Haunted Love is expected out in 2018!
It is our profound pleasure to announce that Bandette has been chosen Best Digital Comic in the 2017 Eisner Awards!
This is the third time Bandette has been so honored (previous years: 2013, 2016) and we could not be more proud. We thank our digital publishing company, Monkeybrain Comics, and our digital distributor, Comixology, for providing us with the platform to create the best comic we can make. We also thank Dark Horse Comics for producing beautiful hardcover print editions of Bandette.
Finally, we thank the brilliant artists who have contributed their work to the Urchin Stories series of 2-3 page backup comics, featuring the many secondary characters who populate Bandette’s world! These stories help flesh out Bandette’s friends, rivals, and enemies, and they are being posted on a weekly basis (until we run out) at Bandette.Net. Anyone wanting a taste of Bandette should navigate there immediately!
Digital issues of Bandette are available through the cross-platform Comixology app for 99¢ each!
The Dark Horse print editions are available from comic shops everywhere in the United States and Canada, as well as from your favorite online book vendors.
Bandette is available in Spanish from Aleta, and in French from Groupe Paquet.
We’re honored to announce that Bandette has been nominated for a 2017 Eisner Award in the category Best Digital Comic Book!
Here’s the full list of nominations in the category. Congratulations to all the nominees!
Be sure to check out Bandette on the Comixology app, the hardcover reprints from Dark Horse Comics, or see free previews of Bandette’s Urchin Stories at Bandette.Net!
Enjoy these free previews from the larger universe of Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover’s BANDETTE! Now being posted at their new internet home, www.Bandette.Net.
Bandette is the star of the show, but her world is populated by an abundance of other amusing characters. Who are they? Get to know all the supporting characters from Bandette in these short Urchin Stories: written by Paul Tobin, with art by a wealth of brilliant guest artists. Posting each Wednesday until we run out of strips.
We’re kicking off with “Theft At The Theatre!”: which is not technically an Urchin Story. The 8-page excerpt by Paul and me from Bandette #10 appeared first in Dark Horse Comic’s All Ages 2015 Free Comic Book Day offering. While the excerpt stands alone, it also serves as the first 8 pages of the Bandette story arc “The House Of The Green Maskâ€, reprinted in the hardcover Bandette Volume 3.
I was so busy on the day of release, I forgot to announce it on my blog!
Small Favors is once again in print, now in its entirety, as a beautiful hard bound edition from Limerence Press! If you’re in Portland, Oregon on Thursday May 4, we’re going to hold a book release party and art show at Floating World Comics starting at 6pm.
A new interview is up on CBR.com about the fast approaching release of the Small Favors Definitive Collection from Limerence Press!
Small Favors will arrive in comic shops on April 26, 2017!
Pre-order from Amazon for delivery May 9, 2017. (But don’t–get it thorough your local shop, if you can.)
Goofing around with a new software application. This drawing was created with Rebelle, which simulates wet and dry media,particularly watercolor, to astonishingly lifelike effect. It’s not perfect; I haven’t found if there’s a pressure sensitive brush stroke yet, and the dry media lines have a little more jitter than I’d like. But BOY, it’s cool, and I could see using it to color something in the future.
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