Ernie Colón
Ernie Colón  was a  artist from Puerto Rico.

He broke into the industry with Harvey Comics as a letterer, but quickly transferred to the art production department as he was a better artist then letterer. While there, he worked on a variety of books including Richie Rich and Caspar the Friendly Ghost. While there, his main editor was Sid Jacobson.

Once Harvey Comics folded in the early 1980s, he moved on and worked for DC and Marvel Comics on titles such as Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Flash, Arak, Son of Thunder, Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld, Doom 2099, and Spider-Man. During this period he also worked on the US Star Trek comic strip, on which he was the original primary artist on the 17th story arc, "Goodbye to Spock".

After meeting Jacobson, the two men began collaborating together. Their first collaboration was a graphic novel version of the 9/11 Commission Report titled "The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation". They followed this up with "After 9/11: America's War on Terror". Further collaborations included graphic novel biographies of Ché Guevara and Anne Frank.

He died in Huntington, New York on 8 August 2019, at the age of 88, of colorectal cancer diagnosed the previous year, leaving behind his fourth wife Ruth Ashby and his four daughters Amanda, Suzan and Luisa Colón, and Rebecca Ashby-Colón.

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Star Trek comic strip artists