The Many Faces of SPOCK

Artist Tony Shasteen wraps up his TREK TUESDAYS residency with an inside look at the collaborative effort behind this brilliant cover.

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Cyberspace, the Final Frontier. These are the Trek Tuesdays voyages of the website 13th Dimension. Its ongoing mission: to explore strange new stories about Star Trek, to seek out new angles and new ideas every week, to boldly go where plenty of people have gone before, but in a funky, fresh, interesting way…

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Tony Shasteen wraps up four weeks of showing off Spock covers — covering the current arc, Legacy of Spock — for IDW’s ongoing Star Trek monthly. This cover, for Issue #58, is due out in June. Tony’s been giving some offbeat glimpses at the creative process and this week, he shows just how collaborative creating comics is …

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By TONY SHASTEEN

Making a cover isn’t just about me sitting in a dark studio toiling away. This is a team effort, and Sarah Gaydos (editor) and Mike Johnson (writer) are my teammates in this geeky sport of funny-book making. Issue #58 is my 20th Trek issue with Mike and Sarah, so I’m giving you a peek into our process by way of email:

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For more of Tony’s contributions to TREK TUESDAYS — covering Issues #55-57 of IDW’s Star Trek ongoing — click here.

Author: Dan Greenfield

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