IDW Publishing
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IDW Publishing is the latest comic book publisher to have obtained the Star Trek licence. They did so in 2006 with the first comics published in January 2007. IDW's comics so far have been based either on The Original Series or The Next Generation. In their first year IDW tested the format with various innovative miniseries, in their second year they intend to push the line forward with the involvement of big names such as D.C. Fontana and Peter David, branding their output for the year Star Trek: Second Stage. [1]
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[edit] Format
IDW has so far released Star Trek comics in miniseries of four to six issues over several consecutive months. Each comic is thirty-two pages in length, twenty-two of which are actually story. The story pages flow uninterrupted with the final ten pages consisting of adverts, previews and interviews relating to other IDW projects, letters pages, and in some issues The Trek Life comic strips.
The inside front cover of each comic contains a title a credit page and sometimes an opening monologue like paragraph of text related to the miniseries or in the case of some part-stories a short paragraph of text to refresh the reader on the story so far.
Most of the comics have been available in several covers. Earlier comics tended to have more covers, while the most recent releases have had increasingly few, with issues being released in just one cover by May of 2008. "Against Their Nature", the first issue of the Klingons: Blood Will Tell miniseries has had to most covers to date, with a total of seven being available. For IDW's first year's worth of miniseries the back inside cover of each comic was used as a cover gallery for that issue. With the launch of the Second Stage titles the cover gallery was moved to the inside front cover occupying a smaller area using thumbnail images.
Once each miniseries is completed it is released as a paperback omnibus book.
After the first few issue of the first series IDW released two comics a month throughout their first year. With the launch of their Second Stage titles they upped production to four issues a month, intending to deliver a new comic almost every week.
[edit] Publications
- For a detailed breakdown of all IDW's miniseries (past, present, forthcoming and potential future series) see IDW Publishing publications. For a list of all IDW comics by publication order see IDW Publishing release order.
[edit] Completed series
| Title | Series | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | No. of issues | Published |
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| The Space Between | TNG | David Tischman | Casey Maloney | 6 | January-June 2007 |
| Klingons: Blood Will Tell | TOS | Scott & David Tipton | David Messina | 5 | April-August 2007 |
| Year Four | TOS | David Tischman | various | 6 | July-December 2007 |
| Alien Spotlight | TOS/TNG | 6 | September 2007 - February 2008 | ||
| Intelligence Gathering | TNG | Scott & David Tipton | David Messina | 5 | January-May 2008 |
| Turnaround | NF | Peter David | Stephen Thompson | 5 | March-July 2008 |
[edit] In production
| Title | Series | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | No. of issues | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment | TOS | D.C. Fontana & Derek Chester | Gordon Purcell & Terry Pallot | 5 | April-August 2008 |
| Assignment: Earth | TOS | 5 | May-September 2008 | ||
| Mirror Images | TOS | Scott & David Tipton | David Messina | 5 | June-November 2008 |
[edit] Forthcoming series
| Title | Series | Writer(s) | Artist(s) | No. of issues | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romulans: The Hollow Crown | TOS | 2 | September 2008 - October 2008 | ||
| The Last Generation | Myriad Universes/TNG | Andrew Steven Harris | Gordon Purcell | 5 | November 2008 - March 2009 |
| Alien Spotlight II | TOS/TNG | 6 | Early-2009 | ||
| Crew | TOS | 6 | Early-2009 | ||
| Assignment: Earth II | TOS | 5 | 2009 | ||
[edit] Creators
| IDW Publishing writers and editors | 
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| Writers | Mike W. Barr • John Byrne • Derek Chester • Peter David • Keith R.A. DeCandido • D.C. Fontana • Andrew Steven Harris • James Patrick • Chris Ryall • Paul D. Storrie • Scott & David Tipton • David Tischman | ||
| Editors | Scott Dunbier • Andrew Steven Harris • Chris Ryall • Dan Taylor • Denton J. Tipton | ||
| IDW Publishing artists |
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| Interior artists | Josep Maria Beroy • John Byrne • Elena Casagrande • Steve Conley • Drew Geraci • Gianluigi Gregorini • Aaron Leach • Casey Maloney • Jose Marzan Jr. • David Messina • Sean Murphy • Tom Nguyen • Leonard O'Grady • Terry Pallot • Stacie Ponder • Sara Pichelli • Gordon Purcell • Rob & Joe Sharp • Stephen Thompson | ||
| Cover artists | Josep Maria Beroy • John Byrne • Dennis Calero • Elena Casagrande • Steve Conley • Joe Corroney • Jeremy Geddes • Zach Howard • Ken Kelly • David Messina • Sean Murphy • Leonard O'Grady • Kelsey Shannon • Rob & Joe Sharp • Stephen Thompson • J.K. Woodward | ||
| Colorists | Mario Boon • Andrew Elder • John Hunt • Jason Jenson • Thompson Knox • Paolo Maddaleni • Leonard O'Grady • Mirco Pierfederici • Tom Smith • Ilaria Traversi • J.K. Woodward | ||
| Letterers | Robbie Robbins • Chris Mowry • Neil Uyetake | ||
[edit] Appendices
| Star Trek comics | ||
|---|---|---|
| By series | EV • TOS • TNG • DS9 • Voyager • SA | |
| By publisher | Gold Key • Marvel • DC • Malibu • Wildstorm • TokyoPop • IDW | |
[edit] External links
- IDW Publishing's website.
- IDW Publishing article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- IDW Publishing article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
