Colleen Douglas is a 2023 Ringo! Award nominee and a comic book creator, editor, and writer. She served as Editor-in-Chief for Amigo Comics and edited for Sally Books in Malaga from 2017 to 2020. Colleen is the Curation Editor for SHOOK! Vol. 2: Songs of the Dark Sirens, the sequel to the groundbreaking SHOOK! A Black Horror Anthology from Second Sight Publishing and Dark Horse Comics. She is historically the first Black woman to be published by Caliber Comics in its 35-year history.
Her editing credits include titles for Amigo Comics (Call of the Suicide Forest, Nancy in Hell, Tales of Rogues, The Apocalypse Girl Vol. 1, Ghost Wolf, and Phantasmagoria), Scout Comics (Commander Rao, The Greylock, Oswald and the Star Chaser, Cross Country, and Unicorn Vampire Hunter), and the AFROFUTURES magazine. As a writer, her published works include TITAN, GARGANTUAN (which reached the Top 500 Comics list), The Apocalypse Girl Vol. 2, Carmine, and various shorts for anthologies like Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Blood, Cthulhu Invades Wonderland, and Holiday Spirits.
Her project Silk Cotton, exploring Caribbean supernatural mythology, sold out at LUCCA 2022 and has since been released in English and Spanish editions. Colleen also contributed to Harvest of Horrors Vol. 3 for Caliber Comics and has written for Leviathan Labs, Ahoy Comics, Interpop Comics, and Advent Comics.
A passionate advocate for diversity and representation in comics, Colleen has spoken at events such as The Cartoon Museum in London and COMICA at the Century Club, and participated in panels including LibraryCon Live 2024. She continues her creative work as Collection Editor for SHOOK! Songs of the Dark Sirens and is developing Shakespeare’s Vampires for FairSquare Graphics.
Originally from Guyana and now based in West London, Colleen holds a PhD in Ancient Monetary Systems. Her eclectic interests include rock, metal, opera, cosmic jazz, funk, and all things supernatural, cosmic, esoteric, and strange.
