John Cassaday artists and cover artist for Marvel’s Star Wars comic series announced on Facebook that he will be leaving the title after issue number 6. No word yet if there will be any other shake ups on the comic. Cassaday also gives his thoughts on creating the cover for Star Wars number 1
While wrapping up my final issue (#6) and the first arc of STAR WARS, I thought I’d be remiss to not show the process of our very first cover.
With this being the first issue, I needed to show the cast but didn’t want to go the movie poster montage route (of course, there’d be time for that later). There was a lot to fit in, so I went with what reminds me a lot of the publicity shots the cast did, especially for the first two films. Action poses from all, sort of backed into a corner and essentially contained to the space of an 8X10 glossy… Maximum impact in a small space.