Star Trek comic group editor Sarah Gaydos, who has been helming the Trek comic imprint at IDW Publishing for the last few years, announced today that she’ll be leaving the publisher for a new role as Editorial Director of Licensed Publishing at Oregon-based Oni Press.
Gaydos’ first contributions to the Trek comic line at IDW began with Star Trek: Ongoing #25 in 2013, and over the past few years has overseen the flagship Trek titles Star Trek: Ongoing and Star Trek: Boldly Go set in the Kelvin Timeline, crossover series bridging Trek and Green Lantern and Planet of the Apes, as well as mini-series runs Starfleet Academy, Star Trek: Mirror Broken, and the Star Trek: Waypoint anthology — and of course, the recent Star Trek: Discovery comics as well.
Gaydos’ final involvement with IDW’s Star Trek titles will be for this spring and summer’s releases, the upcoming TNG Mirror Universe miniseries Through the Mirror and Terra Incognita, as well as the next Discovery miniseries, Succession, which focuses on the USS Discovery crew’s Mirror Universe counterparts. The first Star Trek: Discovery Annual longform graphic novel releases this week as well, which Gaydos oversaw.
If you missed it, we covered all the IDW news on these upcoming stories last weekend from the publisher’s panel at Wondercon Anaheim.
This surprise news is the latest in a round of notable departures from IDW Publishing impacting Star Trek releases of late, with IDW Editor in Chief Chris Ryall announcing his exit from the company last month, and the news that legendary comic scribe John Byrne would be ending his New Visions Original Series photocomic series this year as well.
There’s not yet been any announcement on who will be taking over the Star Trek comic line following Gaydos, but we’ve reached out to IDW and will update our reporting as soon as they’ve announced her replacement.
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