Don't let the title fool you - this isn't your average collection of comics featuring impossibly proportioned vixens in spandex. This time around the sexy chix in question are the writers and artists behind the comics, representing some of the best and brightest talent contributing to the medium of comics and graphic novels today. With stories ranging from mainstream adventures to hilarious comic shorts to heart-wrenching autobiography, Sexy Chix is devoted to the under-recognized contingent of female cartoonists in an overwhelmingly male-oriented industry. It's about time these divinely talented creators get to tell the stories they want to, and the result is an exquisite variety of artistic visions and styles. Among the sexy chicks are New York Times best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates, Eisner Award-winning illustrator Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother), A Distant Soil writer/artist Colleen Doran, Bitchy Bitch creator Roberta Gregory, DC Comics writer Gail Simone, novelist Sarah Grace McCandless (Grosse Pointe Girl) and many, many more!
Colleen Doran is a writer, illustrator, conceptual designer, and outspoken creator rights advocate.
Colleen's most recent works include "Mangaman" with Barry Lyga for Houghton Mifflin (November 2011,) "Gone to Amerikay" with Eisner Award nominated author Derek McCulloch for DC/Vertigo (2012,) and Stealth Tribes with "Red" and "Transmetropolitan" author Warren Ellis (2012). She also signed with Dark Horse Comics for another graphic novel project (to be announced) for release in 2012.
Her credits include "Amazing Spiderman," "Sandman," "Captain America," "Wonder Woman," "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," "A Distant Soil," "The Silver Surfer," "Lucifer," and many others.
She was Artist in Residence at the Smithsonian Institution, and has exhibited and lectured in galleries, museums and exhibits around the world. Books featuring her work have received the Eisner Award, The International Horror Guild Award, and the Harvey Award. She writes and lectures on behalf of authors and artists, and has lobbied in Washington DC on behalf of creator rights.
Colleen lives on a farm in rural Appalachia. She likes to draw. A lot.
