Tori Amos Comics & Concert

Now this is cool: Image Comics will be releasing a graphic novel anthology with stories based on Tori Amos songs next summer! And Colleen Doran is illustrating one of the stories! (Her blog is where I heard about it.)

We went to Tori’s concert on Saturday at the Grove of Anaheim. The standing-room show was good, though there were some snafus getting to it, made worse by the fact that they opened the doors about 45 minutes late. So late, in fact, that they gave up on security checks and just started letting people in. By the time it started moving, the line snaked all the way along the side of the theater and down at least one side of the (rather spacious) parking lot.

Her current album, American Doll Posse, is based around a fictional quintet of singer/songwriters, each based on a different facet of her personality, and she performed as three different personas: Pip, Santa (no relation), and Tori. Which should have been more fun, but there was just a bit too much self-parody in the performance.

She brought a band again, which I think helps keep her from the slow-everything-down tendency she showed on the Originial Sinsuality tour (Katie calls it “elf disease,” after the way the elves of Lothlorien speak in the Lord of the Rings movies). Except for an endless vamp at the end of “Waitress,” this concert moved much more than the last two we’d seen.

It was good to hear stuff from Choirgirl Hotel again. It’s been notably missing from the last few concerts we’ve been to. And there was a surprising amount of stuff from her first two albums as well. (Full set list at Undented.)

I’ve seen Tori in concert 6 times: Once in 1999 at Irvine Meadows, when she toured on a double bill with Alanis Morissette, twice on the Scarlet’s Walk tour from 2002-2003 (Universal Amphitheater & the Pond), twice on the Original Sinsuality tour in 2005 (Royce Hall & the Greek), and this show at the Grove. My favorite was the Scarlet’s Walk tour. I reviewed the Universal show during the first few months of this blog, though I don’t seem to have written anything about the one at the Pond.

Update: The Beat has more on the comic project, including a title, Comic Book Tattoo and additional contributors.

#colleenDoran #concert #groveOfAnaheim #toriAmos

The Ghost Compendium Vol. 1 Available November 18

#horror – #horrorcomics – #TheGhost – #DarkHorseBooks – @DarkHorseComics – #EricLuke – #AdamHughes – #PaulGuinan – #ColleenDoran – #IvanReis – For the first time, collect the definitive saga of Ghost in two oversized trade paperback grap

#ad #AdamHughes(Illustrator) #ColleenDoran(Illustrator) #EricLuke(Author) #horror #IvanReis(Illustrator) #PaulGuinan(Illustrator) #Releases #TheGhost

https://horrornerdonline.com/2025/11/the-ghost-compendium-vol-1-available-november-18/

The Terry Pratchett estate has re-opened the refund window for Colleen Doran's almost-finished graphic novel of Good Omens and arranged that "Neil Gaiman will not receive any proceeds from the graphic novel Kickstarter."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dunmanifestin/good-omens/posts/4302179

#GoodOmens #GoodOmensGraphicNovel #comics #art #ColleenDoran #TerryPratchett #NeilGaiman

Norse Mythology Volume 3

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/06/17/norse-mythology-volume-3/

Public performance eats art.
True. 

Fame doesn’t rub off.
Also True.

Fame doesn’t always pay the bills.
Too True.

This industry doesn’t owe you a living, and it doesn’t pay you to dwell on the past.
Very True.

Most of the people in this industry are garage bands wondering why they’re not the Rolling Stones.
So Very Very True.

Don’t get into comics to get rich. Don’t get into comics for fame. Don’t get into comics for any reason except to make comics.

Fame and money are never a guarantee in the arts, no matter who you are or what you create.

Making your comic is about the truth of your love for the art.

Not about fame. Not about money.

If the audience comes, then yay.

If the audience doesn’t come, you made a comic.

And that’s the hard truth that makes you stronger.

— Colleen Doran, These Things Are True
https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/these-things-are-true

#Art #Career #Life #ColleenDoran

Just read #Chivalry by #NeilGaiman and #ColleenDoran and it’s perfect. The story made me smile and the art was a wonderful complement to the words.

I can see why you wanted to do this project Colleen and you did it justice!

#neilGaimanFan ##ColleenDoranFan #GraphicNovel #Art #Stories