Tomm Coker, also known as Thomas L. Coker (born November 3, 1972), is an American

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artist and film director/writer.

Career

Coker's career started in the early nineties drawing comic books for Image Comics,

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and

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. Throughout the 1990s he worked on such titles as ''

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'', '' Nightfall: The Black Chronicles'' and ''Penthouse Comix''. After a short absence, he returned to comics in 2003, illustrating the popular

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mini-series '' Blood & Water''. This series also marked a stylistic change, in which his art evolved in a much more realistic direction. His

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''A Day Between'' premiered at the 2003 Sacramento International Film and Music Festival. His first feature-length film, '' Catacombs'', starring

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and pop singer

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, was released in 2007. In 2009, he drew MTV's "motion comic" series ''Audio Quest: A Captain Lights Adventure'', starring the singer Lights.

Works

Films

*''A Day Between'' (2003) *'' Catacombs'' (2007)

Comics

*'' Nightfall: The Black Chronicles'' (with writer Ford Lytle Gillmore,

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, 1999–2000) *'' Blood & Water'' (with writer

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, 5-issue mini-series, Vertigo, 2003) *'' Daredevil Noir'' (with writer Alexander Irvine, 4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 2009) *'' Audio Quest: A Captain LIGHTS Adventure'' (with writer LIGHTS) *'' Undying Love'' (with Daniel Freedman, 4-issue mini-series, Image Comics, 2011) *'' Near Death'' (Ongoing Series, Covers #1-5, Image Comics, 2011) *''

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'' (with writer

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, ongoing series, 2016-...)

Role-playing games

*''

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'' (2004) *'' Sharn: City of Towers'' (2004)

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