David Ralph Deitrick is a comic book cover artist, an American illustrator who lives in Alaska. Deitrick's Star Trek artwork spans three decades.
Biography
In the 1980s, he produced a variety of covers and interior artwork for FASA's Star Trek: The Role Playing Game, beginning with the adventure module Denial of Destiny, which he painted in July 1983. [1] He also designed the bladeship USS Claymore that appeared on his cover to the Star Fleet Intelligence Manual. [2]
In 1994, he drew ten starships for the Galactic Encounters subset of the Star Trek - Master Series II trading card set by SkyBox, including the Klingon bird-of-prey and the K't'inga-class and Vor'cha-class battlecruisers. His favorite illustrations were for the Web Spinner-class and Romulan bird-of-prey. [3]
In 2009, for IDW Publishing he provided covers for each issue of their Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan adaptation; his covers were used as retail incentives for the series.
Outside of Star Trek, he is known for his work on Traveller and BattleTech.
Star Trek bibliography
FASA cover artist
- Denial of Destiny (1983)
- The Vanished (1983)
- Stardate Magazine Issue 3/4 (Volume 1): "Back Cover: Vulcan Engineer" (1985)
- The Outcasts (1985)
- A Matter of Priorities (1985)
- The Triangle Campaign (1985)
- Where Has All the Glory Gone? (1985)
- A Doomsday Like Any Other (1986)
- The Mines of Selka (1986)
- Decision at Midnight (1986)
- Return to Axanar (1986)
- An Imbalance of Power (1986)
- Old Soldiers Never Die (1986)
- Conflict of Interests (1986)
- The Dixie Gambit (1986)
- Trader Captains and Merchant Princes (1987, second edition)
- Star Fleet Intelligence Manual (1987)
- The Strider Incident (1987)
- The Orions: Book of Common Knowledge / The Orions: Book of Deep Knowledge (1987)
SkyBox trading card artist
- Star Trek - Master Series II, Galactic Encounters subset (1994, SkyBox)
IDW cover artist
- "The Wrath of Khan, Issue 1" (June 2009)
- "The Wrath of Khan, Issue 2" (17 June 2009)
- "The Wrath of Khan, Issue 3" (1 July 2009)
Appendices
Star Trek covers
Connections
References
- ↑ Denial of Destiny article at David Deitrick's blog.
- ↑ Star Fleet Intelligence Manual article at David Deitrick's blog.
- ↑ Star Trek SkyBox Cards article at David Deitrick's blog.
External links
- David Deitrick article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- David Deitrick's website
- David R. Deitrick article at the InterGalactic Medicine Show blog.
- David Deitrick article at the BattleTech Wiki.
- David Deitrick article at the Traveller RPG Wiki.