Ron Randall has been an illustrator and storyteller for over 20
years. He has worked for most major publishers Marvel Comics, DC
Comics, Dark Horse, Virgin, and Image Comics, and many
others.
In 1986 Dark Horse came to Ron Randall to create his own series. He set out to create a strong, compelling
female lead, a sci-fi setting that would blend the romance of Flash Gordon with
the grit of BladeRunner. This became
Trekker. It is about Mercy St. Clair
bounty hunter living in the violent future of 2226.
Ron has decided to continue the adventures of Mercy St.
Clair. He will start with reprints and
then the new stories. These will be
open and fully accessible to readers at www.trekkercomic.com
beginning on Monday, September 26.
Ron’s webpage is at ronrandall.com.
===PRESS RELEASE===
Trekkercomic.Com Launches With The Return of Ron Randall’s Classic
Sci-Fi Adventure Strip “TREKKER”
PORTLAND, Oregon--This Monday, September 26, 2011 marks the
launch of www.trekkercomic.com,
a new site which will feature weekly postings from the pages of Ron
Randall’s classic, acclaimed sci-fi comic Trekker.
Randall, who is both writer and artist for the series, first
created Trekker and its protagonist,
Mercy St.Clair, for Dark Horse Comics during the rise of the independent
publishing. Now he will also assume web publishing duties, beginning with
the 8-page chapter that first introduced Trekker to the
comics world.
Each Monday will mark the posting of an installment from the
Trekker archives,
in chronological order of their original publication. Once all existing
stories have posted, Randall will go on to post completely new, ongoing Trekker tales chronicling the life
and times of Mercy St. Clair.
Trekker first
came on the scene in 1986, when Dark Horse approached Randall to create a
new series for their catalogue. He was given complete creative freedom
to determine the content and look of the series, as well as full ownership
of the property. “It was virtually an unheard-of opportunity at the time,
and, of course, I could not resist,”says Randall. He went about putting
together the visual and story elements that most appealed to him, and Trekker was born. Randall has
since enjoyed a long and diverse career, but he notes that “Trekker has always
inspired the very best of my efforts, and to this day it remains the most
personal work I’ve produced.”
Trekker is the
story of Mercy Ct. Clair, a brash, extraordinarily gifted young female
bounty hunter living in the violent future of 2226. The strip
follows Mercy’s life and personal “arc” as she pursues the hardened
criminals that operate beyond the reach of an over-taxed law force. The
existing stories open on the gritty, crumbling streets of New Gelaph, and
gradually follow Mercy as she pursues the criminal element into the ruined
lands beyond city lines. Ultimately Mercy’s journey will lead her out
into the stars, where a restless humanity is striving for new hope.
Randall hints that it’s on this grand stage that Mercy will discover her
own surprising destiny.
Until recently, the existing Trekker
stories have only been fitfully collected for print—short stories
in Dark Horse Presents, the original Dark Horse series, and in various
“Special” single issues, and for years fans have clamored for a complete,
accessible collection of Mercy’s adventures. Trekkercomic.com aims to be
exactly that definitive repository. Luckily for fans, Randall “clung
faithfully onto every page of the original Trekker stories,”
and so www.trekkercomic.com
will feature fully-restored, high-quality images of the entire series.
Stories that originally appeared in black and white will
remain faithful to the original, but later color stories will be
completely re-colored to take advantage of recent refinements in digital
coloring technique.
The site will also contain an exclusive “making of” image
gallery containing never-before-seen Trekker-related
designs, sketches and drawings.
Randall reports that every convention has brought questions
from fans eager for the return of Trekker. His
standard reply was that he had the entire series planned, and was only waiting
for the appropriate venue to come along. He notes that “with www.trekkercomic.com, it’s
finally the right time.”
The continuing adventures of Mercy St. Clair will be open
and fully accessible to readers at www.trekkercomic.com
beginning on Monday, September 26.
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