Entries by Ron Randall

A Halloween Treat: Zombies, Trekkers included!

I’m thrilled to announce in collaboration with my co-conspirator Karl Kesel that starting today as special tricky treat, a brand-new, full color, zombie-infested TREKKER story is up and running today at Thrillbent.com. This is the firsr of a two-part Trekker/Johnny Zombie team-up! Part Two will post in two short weeks. “City of the Dead” was […]

Ron’s Fall Conventions Wanderings

Still jazzed from the great time I had this past weekend at the extremely well-run very first Rose City Comic-Con, it’s time to post here my next two conventions. First up is the fabulous New York Comic Con, held October 11-14. And the following weekend, I’m looking forward to attending the cozy Bellingham, WA convention […]

Duoshades of Gray

The pages currently posting over at the Trekkercomic website were done in a now-defunct media called Duo-shade. Duo-shade was a method for generating gray tones in the pre-digital age when standard comics cold not print actual gray areas. You had to create gray values only with line patterns and textures. In earlier Trekker stories, I […]

The Peak of the Mountain: Joe Kubert

One of the galvanizing moments of my evolution as a comics fan and aspiring artist myself was when my eyes crossed this cover on the comic spinner rack back in 1972. I’d been aware of Joe’s work on Sgt. Rock, of course– it was inescapable to like comics back then and NOT be affected by […]

Family Resemblances?

It’s been pointed out to me that since the debut of Trekker, many female action sci-fi characters have been popping up in the culture. It got me thinking, and then sketching. Here are a couple of “Trekker cousins”, Miranda from Mass Effect and Samus from Metroid– I believe I can see a certain resemblance. .