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John Byrne is a comic book artist and writer, notable for his extensive work on numerous major comic franchises since the 1970s. His first work on Star Trek comics came in 1987, with illustrations in DC Comics' Who's Who in Star Trek. It was not until 2008 that he created his first full Star Trek comic, for IDW Publishing, he has since gone on to produce numerous series of Star Trek comics for IDW.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Star Trek credits 2.1 Covers 2.2 Sketch covers 3 Appendices 3.1 External links

BiographyEdit

Byrne's first contribution to Star Trek comics was in 1987 when he provided illustrations for the articles on Harry Mudd, Sarek, David Bailey, Hortas, Iotians and Khan Noonien Singh in DC Comics’ Star Trek reference work, Who's Who in Star Trek.

Byrne had long been a fan of Star Trek, however during his career Byrne had a number of bad experiences with likeness approval on various TV and move tie-in comic franchises and became wary on working such comics. However in 2007 IDW Publishing editor Chris Ryall managed to convince Byrne to work on his first full Star trek comic, "Alien Spotlight: Romulans", which with its focus on Aliens rather than any of the primary cast of the Star Trek series freed Byrne from the concerns of likeness approval. That first foray "removed the cork from the bottle, and allowed the genii to escape" and Byrne has gone on to produce numerous Star Trek comics for IDW.^[1]

Byrne has so far produced five series for IDW; Assignment: Earth, focusing on Gary Seven; Romulans: The Hollow Crown and Romulans: Schism, sequels to his Romulan Alien Spotlight story (which collectively have been published in the omnibus Romulans: Pawns of War; Crew, a TOS prequel focusing on Number One; and Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor, a series featuring Doctor McCoy set prior to Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Byrne currently has three further Star Trek series green-lit by IDW. One of these will conclude at about the time Robert April takes command of the USS Enterprise, and the final of the three will be a second Assignment: Earth series.^[2][3]

Another idea Byrne had but has yet to develop, having pushed it back behind his other Star Trek series, is a miniseries exploring the adventures of Balok and David Bailey.^[4] One idea Byrne will not be able to realize was a crossover between Assignment: Earth and the series Doctor Who; unfortunately the BBC, who own the Doctor Who franchise, were not willing to go ahead with this.^[5]

Elsewhere in IDW's output, the artist J.K. Woodward created an homage to John Byrne's cover for the Uncanny X-Men comic "Days of Future Past" for his own cover for "Do Not Close Your Eyes", the first issue of the The Last Generation miniseries.

Star Trek creditsEdit

DC Comics

• Who's Who in Star Trek (select illustrations)

IDW Publishing

Artist, writer and cover credits for all issues:

• Alien Spotlight: "Romulans"
• Assignment: Earth:
  • "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns"
  • "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"
  • "My Name Is Legion"
  • "We Have Met The Enemy..."
    • "Isis"
  • "Too Many Presidents"
    • "Ah-Ha!"
• Romulans: The Hollow Crown
  • "The Hollow Crown, Issue 1"
  • "The Hollow Crown, Issue 2"
• Crew:
  • "Shakedown"
  • "The Bottle"
  • "Ghosts"
  • "Shadows of the Past"
  • "The Ends of Eternity"
• Romulans: Schism:
  • "Schism, Issue 1"
  • "Schism, Issue 2"
  • "Schism, Issue 3"
• Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor:
  • "Weeds"
  • "Error"
  • "Medics"
  • "Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor, Issue 4":
    • "Hosts"
    • "Scalpel"

CoversEdit

Sketch coversEdit

AppendicesEdit

IDW Publishing writers and editors
Writers	Mike W. Barr • John Byrne • Zander Cannon • Derek Chester • Peter David • Keith R.A. DeCandido • Ian Edginton • D.C. Fontana • Andrew Steven Harris • Tim Jones • Mike Johnson • Stuart Moore • James Patrick • Chris Ryall • Andy Schmidt • Arne Schmidt • Paul D. Storrie • David Tipton • Scott Tipton • David Tischman • Ty Templeton
Story credits	Harve Bennett • Alex Kurtzman • Roberto Orci • Rick Remender • Jack B. Sowards
Editors	Scott Dunbier • Andrew Steven Harris • Chris Ryall • Andy Schmidt • Dan Taylor • Denton J. Tipton

IDW Publishing artists
Interior artists	Bob Almond • Javier Aranda • Claudia Balboni • Josep Maria Beroy • John Byrne • Gaetano Carlucci • Elena Casagrande • Chee Yang Ong • Steve Conley • Arianna Florean • Drew Geraci • Gianluigi Gregorini • Mike Hawthorne • Aaron Leach • Casey Maloney • Federica Manfredi • Fabio Mantovani • Jose Marzan Jr. • David Messina • Stephen Molnar • Sean Murphy • Tom Nguyen • Leonard O'Grady • Augustin Padilla • Terry Pallot • Stacie Ponder • Sara Pichelli • Gordon Purcell • Wagner Reis • Marc Rueda • Rob & Joe Sharp • Bob Smith • Stephen Thompson • German Torres-Ruiz • J.K. Woodward
Cover artists	Robert Atkins • Josep Maria Beroy • James Brown • John Byrne • Dennis Calero • Elena Casagrande • Chee Yang Ong • Steve Conley • Joe Corroney • David Deitrick • Jeremy Geddes • Zach Howard • Ken Kelly • Kevin Maguire • David Messina • Sean Murphy • Leonard O'Grady • Augustin Padilla • Bob Peak • Pablo Raimondi • Brian Reber • Nick Runge • Kelsey Shannon • Rob & Joe Sharp • Stephen Thompson • David Williams • J.K. Woodward
Colorists	2B Studio • Davide Amici • Jennifer Baumann • Moose Baumann • Mario Boon • Chiara Cinabro • Andrew Elder • Mike Hawthorne • John Hunt • Jason Jenson • Lovern Kindzierski • Thompson Knox • Paolo Maddaleni • Giovanna Niro • Leonard O'Grady • Mirco Pierfederici • Priscila Ribeiro • Chris Sotomayor • Tom Smith • Ilaria Traversi • J.K. Woodward
Letterers	Robbie Robbins • Chris Mowry • Richard Starkings • Neil Uyetake

External linksEdit

• John Byrne article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• John Byrne article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• Byrne Robotics, John Byrne's website