The Wake

written by Jeffrey Lang
art and letters by Steve Lieber
colours by Wildstorm FX

A Star Trek comic story I drew in 2000. It was published in 2001. Jeff Lang’s script was sweet and sad and I tried my best to live up to it in the drawing. My line art in those days was all analog- just ink on paper. 

Wildstorm editorial was remarkably hands-off. They asked for a few redraws on my Leonard Nimoy likenesses, and requested that I soften my drawings of McCoy. He was on his deathbed in the story, and was probably over 140 years old, so I had initially drawn him looking pretty rough. But my editor explained that they had to run the art past DeForest Kelley’s family for approval, and I was more than happy to rework a few panels.