Real world article
(written from a production point of view)
Kazuhiko Sano (17 July 1952 – 31 May 2011; age 59) was an artist born in Tokyo, Japan, where he also studied oil painting. In 1975, he moved to San Francisco in the United States to study illustration. He began painting movie posters, advertising, and book covers. Some companies he worked for include Disney, Paramount, Lucasfilm, American Express, IBM, and Coca Cola. He published several books collecting his artwork and illustrations, and won numerous awards for both his art and his books.
He painted a large number of reprint covers for the Star Trek books.
Sano passed away 31 May 2011. [1](X) [2]
Cover work[]
- Death's Angel
- World Without End
- Spock, Messiah!
- Spock Must Die!
- Mudd's Angels (aka Mudd's Enterprise)
- The Galactic Whirlpool
- Perry's Planet
- The New Voyages
- The New Voyages 2
- The Starless World
- Trek to Madworld
- The Fate of the Phoenix
- Vulcan!
- Planet of Judgment
External links[]
- KazuSano.com – official site
- Kazuhiko Sano at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works