Mike: In 1996, Andy discovered an opportunity to write Star Trek comics for Tim Tuohy at Marvel he called me for assistance (his primary media space-opera expertise was in Star Wars), and our writing partnership took off from there, starting with a very strange tribble story that ended up in issue #14 in our half-year run on Marvel’s Deep Space 9 title. We’ve now been writing Star Trek (and a trio of Roswell books) together for a decade! Knowing that Michael Martin wanted to break into writing professionally, AND he was a walking encyclopedia of Star Trek lore, AND we got along well, I asked if he wanted to co-write the story with me. When I was writing articles for Marvel Vision magazine, I asked the editor, Tim Tuohy, if I could do a fill-in on any of his comics. DC paid me for it, but it went through several editors and then faded away.

In the early 90s I got back into it and the stuff started selling in 1995.Īndy: I had never worked with a co-writer before, but a previous Star Trek story I did for DC had been scuttled when a Next Generation story gutted the premise of my two-parter. Mike: I began writing terrible little short s-f stories way back in junior high, then got sidetracked and drifted out of the habit of fiction composition during college. From there, I wrote for lots of magazines, eventually moving into comic book work, and then books – both non-fiction and fiction! I got my two year art degree, but started selling articles to Fantasgraphics for Amazing Heroes magazine, and discovered in my third year that I really hated doing art on deadline, but writing was very easy for me. They were kind enough to participate in The Ten.Īndy: I actually went to college to get an art degree to draw comics.

Their work extends outside the scope of Star Trek, including short stories, comics, and DVDs. Their books include The Sundered, Mission Gamma Book Three: Cathedral, and the Star Trek: Titan novels Taking Wing (a USA Today Bestseller book) and The Red King, among others. Martin and Andy Mangels are some of the most popular writers for the Star Trek novel range.

The Red King by Andy Mangels