About
Shobo Coker is a narrative designer and writer working across games, comics, screen and animation, and franchise worlds.
Eisner-nominated for Bronze Faces (BOOM! Studios, Best Limited Series), with shipped credits on Marvel's Black Panther, Magic: The Gathering, and The Witcher, alongside original creator-owned series with BOOM! Studios and Image Comics.
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What I do
My work spans two registers. Inside licensed worlds — Wakanda, Magic's multiverse, the Continent of The Witcher — I write canon-aware dialogue, lore, and material that holds up under franchise and editorial scrutiny. In original projects — Bronze Faces, New Masters, Buckhead, Crocodile Dance — I build character-driven speculative worlds rooted in mythology, history, and political imagination.
I'm equally comfortable inside someone else's canon and building one from scratch.
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Working style
Across games, comics, and screen development, I'm most useful where story has to survive collaboration — with designers, editors, artists, producers, directors, VO teams, and licensors. I like ambitious worlds, but I care about clarity, constraints, and what the audience actually experiences.
As narrative designer at Harebrained Schemes on The Lamplighters League, I wrote inside a four-person team shipping a Paradox title. As Creative Director at Endless Adventures Inc. under Jordan Weisman, I helped build an indie studio in the Asia-Pacific region from the ground up.
Both jobs taught me the same thing: the writers who survive production are the ones who solve problems, not the ones who defend prose.
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Background & perspective
I'm Nigerian-born and a naturalized US citizen, currently based in Prague. My original work is shaped by Yoruba mythology, Lagos as a future city, and the long shadow of colonial extraction — themes that thread through Bronze Faces, New Masters, Buckhead, and Crocodile Dance.
In 2019 I received the Creators for Creators Grant, selected by Robert Kirkman, Jonathan Hickman, Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Matt Fraction, and Kelly Sue DeConnick, in support of my early creator-owned work.
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Coker Co-Op
Most of my original work is developed through Coker Co-Op, the creative studio I run with my brother, artist and director, Shof Coker. Coker Co-Op develops Africanfuturist comics, animation, and games.
Bronze Faces, New Masters, Buckhead, and Crocodile Dance are all Coker Co-Op projects.
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Working with me
Based
Prague, Czech Republic
Employment Authorization
United States & European Union
Engagements
Contract, freelance, consulting, speaking & talks, employment —
remote or hybrid
Rates
Available on inquiry