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| Collen Doran in her studio |
I interviewed Colleen Doran back in the 1990s. She was a friend to our TitanTalk group, being a fan.
And, so, just recently, I discovered she had a PATREON.
Of course, she does.
I had trimmed my Patreon giving, but it has ballooned again due to COMIC BOOK CREATORS.
I am happy to support them, but I may have to re-examine my budget.
Fortunately, many have a $1 or $2 monthly level. You know that's a powerful thing. If 5000 people give $1 monthly, well, you can do that math.
Colleen posted this stuff the other day to her Patreon feed and I copied it all over with due credit here to my sources.
I have also included her Patreon video.
Consider supporting her work. She's making progress in completing her life's work: A Distant Soil.
It's a favorite of mine.
https://www.adistantsoil.com/
https://www.patreon.com/ColleenDoran/overview
Before Stan Lee passed away at the age of 95, he recorded content for a Superheroes Masterclass with his pal super-producer Michael Uslan! And you can take this class online for FREE!
The SmithsonianX course, titled "The Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact on Pop Culture," traces the history of the genre from the Golden Age of comic books to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Before his death, Stan Lee helped shape the curriculum as a virtual instructor. He's joined by instructors Michael Uslan, executive producer of The Dark Knight series; David Uslan, a comic book publisher and Michael's son; and Christopher Robichaud, a professor who writes about superheroes and philosophy.
As if that isn't cool enough, the nice people at Marvel Comics have dubbed me Comic Book Royalty, and invited me to talk about my favorite 1970's era comic books! Check out the article here!
COMICS
Published April 22, 2019
What's the Best Marvel Comic of
the 1970s?
Comics
legend Colleen Doran lists her favorite books in honor of Marvel's 80th
anniversary!
BY BEN MORSE
Each week, the Best of the Decade
column honors 80 years of comic book excellence by spotlighting a single issue
from the House of Ideas beloved by the best in the business!
Colleen Doran was born to create comics.
A prodigy who started
exploring her artistic influences as early as age five, the future architect of
her own epic works—not to mention a guest to Spider-Man’s friendly
neighborhood—credits a bout of childhood illness for lighting a fire in her.
“I read comics
sporadically when I was little, but I didn’t
catch the bug until I was about 12,” recalls Doran. “I got a really bad case of
pneumonia, and was bedridden for a long time. A friend of the family gave me a
big box of comics to read while I recuperated, and many of them were classic
Marvel tales, including the CAPTAIN AMERICA
storyline when he became Nomad, some early CONAN comics, DEFENDERS.
That’s when I decided to become a cartoonist.
From then on I just drew and drew comics, comics characters. I was hooked.”
In the years since, Colleen has collected awards and acclaim for her
art and recently illustrated an autobiography of the late great Stan Lee than
landed on the New
York Times bestseller list. We spoke with this member of comic book
royalty about a certain SON OF SATAN,
the experimentation of the 1970s, and how that decade cemented the modern
Marvel we know today…
Marvel.com: How did you come across the Marvel books of the
'70s?
Colleen Doran: I found a copy of CHAMBER
OF CHILLS #1 crumbled up into a little ball under the bleachers of my
elementary school. I’d never seen or read a
comic book before, and I was captivated. This issue featured a story entitled
“Delusion for a Dragonslayer” by the legendary Harlan Ellison. The
point sailed right over my head, but I was fascinated by it. We were really
poor when I was a kid, so there was no money to buy comics. I’d fish soda bottles out of the trash to redeem for money
so I could buy some from the 7-Eleven and I treasured every single one of them.
But my family moved away from the city when I was a little girl, and you just
couldn’t get comics in the country. There were no shops, no bookstores. I
didn’t see any comics again until I got sick: my parents tossed what few I’d
owned before when we moved. Rediscovering comics again, in that big box when I
was sick, that was a great gift. It changed my life.
Marvel.com: What sets the Marvel comics of the 1970s apart from
other eras?
Doran: That’s a
great question. Comics were just beginning to be taken seriously as an art form,
I think. Marvel was putting real effort into producing challenging story lines
about social issues, the changing world. I remember being fascinated by Peter
Parker’s struggles with simple daily challenges,
like getting a decent apartment, I loved stuff like that.
There
were some wild and weird experiments, like HOWARD THE DUCK, and books like [UNCANNY X-MEN] got revamped and became
incredibly popular. I didn’t
actually start reading X-Men until the 1980s, but all the set up for that
modern take on mutants began in the '70s.
It was
a great period for expansion because so much of what was being done in comics
at the time has simply never been done before. Creators were getting more
leeway to experiment, expand the boundaries in both art and story. So many
truly great cartoonists got going in the '70s. I know a lot of the great comics
were actually created in the '60s, everything from the FANTASTIC FOUR to DAREDEVIL, but I think they really hit their
strides in the '70s.
Marvel.com: What titles stood out to you as favorites from that
decade?
Doran: DEFENDERS. No doubt, I loved that book. I was
very fond of Valkyrie and used to wear my long blonde hair in a single side
ponytail to imitate her! THOR, of course. I loved ETERNALS, it was a huge influence on my own
space opera comics A Distant Soil. Completely bonkers, and full of that old
Erich von Daniken Chariots of the Gods stuff that was really popular back in
the day. DOCTOR STRANGE; I was always really interested
in the metaphysical comics, the stuff with magic. I liked comics with big,
cosmic story lines. AVENGERS ANNUAL #7, with Adam Warlock and
Thanos, that was stupendous. I mean, those story lines are still reverberating
around the world today: they’re
making movies out of them.
Marvel.com: If you had to pick one story or issue from the '70s
as your absolute favorite, what would it be?
Doran: Easy pick, I doubt it would be anyone else’s pick, but you gotta track down this comic: SON OF SATAN #8.
It is
amazing they got away with half what they were doing in a 1970s-era comic, but
this book is really something, in large part due to the amazing art of Russ
Heath. It is creepy and it is gorgeous. Heath was always one of the finest
draftsmen in comics, and he let it all out on this book. A couple of pages were
drawn by other people because some of the work didn’t pass muster with the Comics Code, but I think there’s a
collection with the original pages restored. It’s beautifully drawn work, very weird. He really knew how
to give a girl nightmares.
For classic Colleen Doran, read AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #326 today! Then dive
into these 1970s-favorites on Marvel
Unlimited! And visit Marvel.com's 80th anniversary hub page for
more
http://mentalfloss.com/article/581284/you-can-enroll-free-class-superheroes-virtually-instructed-stan-lee
You Can Enroll in a Free Class on Superheroes Virtually Instructed by Stan Lee
When Stan Lee died on November 12, 2018 at age 95, he left a hole in the world of superheroes that he helped create. He also left behind a few surprises: In addition to his posthumous cameos in Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame this year, the comic book writer contributed to a class on superheroes that's now available on edX.
The SmithsonianX course, titled "The Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact on Pop Culture," traces the history of the genre from the Golden Age of comic books to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Before his death, Stan Lee helped shape the curriculum as a virtual instructor. He's joined by instructors Michael Uslan, executive producer of The Dark Knight series; David Uslan, a comic book publisher and Michael's son; and Christopher Robichaud, a professor who writes about superheroes and philosophy.
While learning about the history of superheroes, students will get a lesson on American history at the same time: The class covers Word War II, the McCarthy Era, and globalization through a comic book-tinted lens.
You can enroll in the six-week course for free through edX, or pay $50 to pursue a verified certificate. Here are some more online courses you can sign up for in 2019.
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