Tomm Coker Explained

Birth Name:	Thomas Coker
Birth Date:	3 November 1972
Birth Place:	Sacramento, California, U.S.
Area:	Comics artist, film director/writer
Pencil:	y
Ink:	y
Alias:	Thomas L. Coker

Tomm Coker, also known as Thomas L. Coker (born November 3, 1972),^[1] is an American comic book artist and film director/writer.

Career

Coker's career started in the early nineties drawing comic books for Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Throughout the 1990s he worked on such titles as Gen 13 Bootleg, and Penthouse Comix.

After a short absence, he returned to comics in 2003, illustrating the popular Vertigo mini-series Blood & Water.^[2] This series also marked a stylistic change, in which his art evolved in a much more realistic direction.

His short film A Day Between premiered at the 2003 Sacramento International Film and Music Festival. His first feature-length film, Catacombs, starring Shannyn Sossamon and pop singer Pink, was released in 2007.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

In 2009, he drew MTV's "motion comic" series Audio Quest: A Captain Lights Adventure, starring the singer Lights.^{[7] [8]}

Works

Films

• A Day Between (2003)
• Catacombs (2007)

Comics

• (with writer Ford Lytle Gillmore, Homage Comics, 1999–2000)
• Blood & Water (with writer Judd Winick, 5-issue mini-series, Vertigo, 2003)
• Daredevil Noir (with writer Alexander Irvine, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 2009)
• (with writer LIGHTS)
• Undying Love (with Daniel Freedman, 4-issue mini-series, Image Comics, 2011)^{[9] [10]}
• Near Death (Ongoing Series, Covers #1-5, Image Comics, 2011)
• The Black Monday Murders (with writer Jonathan Hickman, ongoing series, 2016-...)^[11]

Role-playing games

• Eberron Campaign Setting (2004)^[12]
• (2004)

External links

• • • Web site: Tomm Coker :: Pen & Paper RPG Database . February 21, 2005 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050221212751/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=3411 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Thomas L. Coker. California Birth Index. January 3, 2017.
2. Brady, Matt. "Looking Back and Around with Tomm Coker", Newsarama, August 30, 2004
3. Brady, Matt. "Tomm Coker Talks Catacombs", Newsarama, March 11, 2005
4. (October 19, 2007). "Estrenos: Catacumbas", Mural, p. 8.
5. Markham-Smith, Ian (March 4, 2005). "Tickled Pink by film role", Daily Mirror, p. 14.
6. Mayne, Jane (May 23, 2008). "Catacombs", Cape Times, p. 6.
7. (November 28, 2009). "Global pulse: Lights on", Billboard 121 (47): 34–35.
8. Caldwell, Patrick (April 15, 2010). "Lighting up pop life", Austin American-Statesman, p. T8.
9. (January 6, 2012). "Screen talk", The Independent, p. 10.
10. (July 15, 2011). "Screen talk: True blood ways", The Independent.
11. Web site: Image Comics, The Black Monday Murders . May 18, 2016 . Image Comics . https://web.archive.org/web/20160909171503/https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/the-black-monday-murders . September 9, 2016 . live . September 9, 2016 . Archive requires scrolldown
12. Web site: Tomm Coker. https://web.archive.org/web/20050221212751/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=3411. February 21, 2005.