The studio
We started because the cosmic issues on the shelf had no empty numbers left.
Maeve Quinn kept a short box of Guardians of the Galaxy comics in a Glascote terrace and a smaller folder of NFT comic receipts that did not match the paper. The digital copies were readable. They did not feel like issues she had sat with. In 2023 she cleared the front room at 58 Nith Street, bought a lightbox, and asked Ilya Rahman — who had been lettering small-press books in Birmingham — to keep a ledger if she drew original cosmic one-shots.
Engine Trackcore is that room. We commission original plots in the Guardians tradition: crew arguing in a galley, Knowhere market light, Kyln quiet. We mint the finished issue as a numbered NFT comic and bind a proof for the person who paid for the bench. Marvel’s house titles remain Marvel’s. Our wall is the work we inked here.
How we work
Scripts are read aloud before colour. Cover B is designed to survive a table lamp. Edition size defaults to eight because eight still feels like a short box. We will not rotoscope film stills. We will argue about silent pages.
Who you meet
Maeve Quinn
Script, pencils, lettering. Learned balloon timing on photocopied zines before she touched a cosmic cover. Signs reservation cards and colophons.
Ilya Rahman
Inks, colour, the issue ledger, sittings. Photographs paper proofs on the lightbox. Writes dossiers in a hand you can still read when the ink dries.
What we will not claim
We are not an official Marvel imprint. We do not sell film props. We do not grade other people’s houses for a marketplace score. If you want a sitting about Marvel cosmic-issue NFT comics you already hold, we will read the public listing with you and write down what it actually shows.