Colleen Doran is an illustrator, film conceptual artist, cartoonist, and writer whose published works number in the hundreds with clients such as The Walt Disney Company, Lucasfilm, Scholastic, Parker Brothers, Sony, Time/Warner, Harper Collins, Readers Digest, Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics Inc, Image Comics, The Cahners Group, Dark Horse Comics, and many others.

She has illustrated the works of Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Warren Ellis, Anne Rice, J Michael Straczynski, Peter David, and Tori Amos.

Her credits include: Amazing Spiderman, Sandman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, A Distant Soil, The Legion of Superheroes, The Teen Titans, Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Anne Rice's The Master of Rampling Gate, Clive Barker's Hellraiser, Clive Barker's Nightbreed, Manga Mania, Anime Mania, The Silver Surfer, Lucifer, and Tori Amos: Comic Book Tattoo.

She is currently illustrating the upcoming Stealth Tribes graphic novel for DC Comics' Vertigo division. Written by best-selling author Warren Ellis (known for his breakthrough works Transmetropolitan and Global Frequency) Stealth Tribes is a cutting edge, cyberpunk, science fiction tale. Doran and Ellis collaborated on the best selling graphic novel Orbiter, an inspiring story of mankind's return to space after a space shuttle disaster causes the world to lose faith in exploration.

Recent works also include illustrations for licensed The Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones products. Colleen is well known in Tolkien fandom and is often a guest at shows and exhibits. She sold dozens of prints and original art at the Lord of the Rings parties on Oscar night in Hollywood, raising thousands of dollars for charity. She also appears in the film Ringers, a documentary about the Lord of the Rings fan phenomenon.

She is also working on a series of children's licensed books, and developing a new graphic novel project.

Colleen has spent most of her life devoted to her epic science fiction/fantasy tale A Distant Soil, a complex space opera, the first of its kind in the USA, and possibly the first graphic novel solely produced by a female creator. She began writing the tale when she was twelve years old, and has now produced four graphic novel collections and nearly 40 comics. It is listed in The 101 Best Graphic Novels, by Stephen Weiner. She has just begun production on her fifth graphic novel, the tale that will finally bring the main storyline to its conclusion. For more information, go to http://www.adistantsoil.com

Colleen has traveled and lectured extensively in Singapore, Japan, Germany, England, and served as Artist in Residence at the Smithsonian Institute in 2006. She won a grant from the Delphi Institute to study American popular culture, and was chosen to represent the United States at the Japan/America manga/comics seminar in Tokyo, Japan along with Eisner award-winning cartoonist Jeff Smith, Pulitzer Prize and Oscar award-winning creator Jules Ffeiffer, Denys Cowan, and Nicole Hollander.

She has exhibited her work around the world at shows and galleries in Milan, Vienna, New York, San Francisco, and Tokyo. She has received many awards and honors for her work, but her favorites are those that show how much fans appreciate her.

Colleen has also been profiled and examined in a number of other books, magazines and film documentaries. She appears in the films Sex, Lies and Superheroes by Constantine Valhouli, and Mainstream Raw: Scenes From the Small Press by Rich Henn. Henn followed up with a solo film of Colleen and her work called Scenes From The Small Press: Colleen Doran.

Colleen is a dedicated and hard working artist who gladly works long days and seven day work weeks.

She enjoys spending free time with her family, hiking, gardening and working the land on the family estate.