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BIOGRAPHY
Daniel Cooney is an accomplished comics writer, educator and illustrator of such books as Valentine and the soon-to-be-released The Tommy Gun Dolls. Cooney has established himself as an illustrator for various book publishers, and licensed properties of comics, television and film. Cooney resides in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and their newborn son Dashiell, where he teaches writing and drawing comics at the Academy of Art University.
BOOKS
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Valentine: Fully Loaded Spies get all the glory… but assassins? It’s just staying alive for a life of killing… Paperback: 160 pages |
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Valentine: Red Rain New problems abound for Valentine, bringing her past full circle with a decision that will change the outcome of her future… if she survives to have one first… Paperback: 120 pages |
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Valentine: The Killing Moon Injected with a deadly toxin that will release into her bloodstream in less than 36 hours, Dana has only one shot at the antidote. But before she can fix her future, she must face a past she left behind long ago… Paperback: 120 pages |
APPEARANCES
WonderCon
April 2 – 4
Moscone Center, San Francisco
Comic-Con International
July 21 – 25
San Diego Convention Center, San Diego
NEWS
Capital Public Radio – Radio Interview
Fanboy Radio – Radio Interview
PRAISE FOR THE VALENTINE SERIES
“…enthusiasm and an unpretentious approach… I definitely recommend you investigate.”
— Comic Book Galaxy
“Creator Dan Cooney has produced a gritty dark tale that features a female protagonist who could give Dirty Harry a run for his money in the bad ass category… This is a very edgy, hard-hitting series. There are no simple or easy answers.”
— SequentialTart.com
“Take equal parts Alias and La Femme Nikita, put them together on a comics page, and the result is Valentine, a fast paced action comic starring a heroine of refreshingly believable proportions — the female comics-reading public thanks you, Dan Cooney!”
— Trina Robbins, comics historian & writer/creator of GoGirl!
“Young, attractive, and uber-deadly, Dana Valentine has begun to morally question her life as an assassin…VALENTINE is a book that can give a reader a whole lot of cognitive issues… Between ALIAS, LE FEMME NIKITA, and the coming ELEKTRA, there’s a growing market and desire for female-driven spy/assassin stories… I suspect that agents across town would be sending their 20ish female clients in droves to try and get this part.”
— Marc Mason, MoviePoopShoot.com, October 28, 2003
“…the world’s deadliest female assassin with a killer smile.”
— BrokenFrontier.com, July 12, 2005
“Daniel Cooney (artist and writer: “Valentine”)… in our opinion, could be a big name soon… One of the more visually stunning booths was that of Daniel Cooney, whose Valentine character loomed behind him in stand-up poster form”
— Sfist.com, April 12, 2005
“Valentine never looks like a cookie-cutter comic heroine nor is she ever presented that way.”
— A David Lewis, PopMatters.com
“I thought Dana Valentine was an interesting lead, not unlike one of the stronger females in Greg Rucka’s novels. She engaged in a morally questionable profession, but she isn’t presented as inhuman. Instead, like Tony Soprano or Leon in The Professional, she’s a human with emotions and thoughts who is stuck in a job that most of us mentally ascribe to inhuman personalities. The dichotomy makes for an interesting hook… Valentine offers up an unusual premise, looking at the life of a female assassin not from the angle of the guns, explosions and assignments, but the after-effects on the psyche and the down-time persona.”
— TheFourthRail.com
“This sexy, bitchy killer provides for some classic comic entertainment. The new book, “The Killing Moon,” was unveiled at Comic-con, and it is very good, opening with Valentine crashing a car through some thugs’ living room and taking out the trash.”
— John Guilfoil, BlastMagazine.com
“I definitely recommend this comic book to everyone. Not because Daniel Cooney is from Sacramento like me, because this comic book is absolutely OUTSTANDING! Meet Dana Valentine, she is the deadliest assassin you will ever meet! She makes Vin Diesel’s Triple X character look like an amateur boyscout. Daniel Cooney takes you into a reality that completely absorbs you into the story. There is strong character development with all of the characters and I found myself getting attached to Dana… Plenty of action, adventure and intrigue in this story! Dana is absolutely gorgeous and even though she has plenty of scratches from her encounter with Sophia, she still is attractive… There is no time for a breather with this story, the story moves rapidly. Daniel is also a superb artist and you will not be disappointed as you move from panel to panel and admiring the fine details Daniel places in each drawing…After I finished reading this baby, it stuck in my mind a long time afterwards! This comic book gets a standing ovation!”
— Paul Dale Roberts, ComicsBulletin.com
“Scars never looked as good as they do on ex-CIA assassin Dana Valentine… ‘The Killing Moon’ promises even more bullets and bodies once Dana’s GTO crosses the New Mexico border”
— Tom McLean, Variety.com, August 24, 2005
“…the book is snazzy. You’ve got guns, you’ve got cars being driven through houses, disembowelments and a solid story. Cooney’s artwork is clean and his “shots” are nicely cinematic.”
— NeedCoffee.com, July 17, 2005
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Daniel Cooney Bibliography of Published Works
