Colleen Doran is a New York Times bestselling cartoonist whose professional career began when she was a young teen. She illustrated work for the Eisner Award winning The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, as well as their graphic novel adaptations of his novels and short stories American Gods, Troll Bridge, and Norse Mythology. She also illustrated Stan Lee's New York Times bestselling autobiography Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible Stan Lee.
For Neil Gaiman’s Snow Glass Apples, which she adapted and illustrated, she won the Eisner Award for Best Adaptation, the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel from the Horror Writers Association, and the Ringo Award for Best Graphic Novel. Snow, Glass, Apples was also nominated for the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for Best Graphic Novel, The Tripwire Award, and received an Honorable Mention at the Rondo Hattan Classic Horror Awards for Best Graphic Novel, as well as Eisner and Ringo Award nominations for Best Penciler/Inker and Best Artist.
She was inducted into the Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 2007, and the Wizard World Hall of Legends in 2017.
Other books she has illustrated have won Eisner and Harvey Awards, and the International Horror Guild Award. Her essays appeared in the Hugo nominated Chicks Dig Comics. Art from the Troll Bridge graphic novel was selected for the Spectrum annual collection featuring the best science fiction and fantasy art of the year. She was Artist in Residence at the Smithsonian Institute and has lectured at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Design and the Australian Writers Association. Her work has been featured in numerous galleries and museum exhibits worldwide, including a solo exhibit this year at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco featuring the original art from Neil Gaiman's Chivalry.
Doran’s A Distant Soil, which she created and published as a teenager, is now published by Image Comic’s Shadowline imprint. Vector: The Journal of the British Science Fiction Association declared it “groundbreaking science fiction comics…ahead of its time.”
She worked with Alan Moore on an experimental animated webcomic Big Nemo based on the classic Winsor McCay comic strip. On The Vampire Diaries she contributed as writer and artist for the comic based on the hit television show. She wrote and/or drew stories for various Wonder Woman titles from DC Comics. She’s also illustrated the works of Margaret Atwood, Anne Rice, J Michael Straczynski, Clive Barker, and official graphic novel works for legendary rock band The Doors, as well as Blondie, Melissa Etheridge, and Tori Amos.
Other credits include Amazing Spider-Man, The Teen Titans, Captain America, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jessica Jones for Netflix, Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, and various Star Wars and Lord of the Rings projects.
