David Messina is an Italian comic artist who is currently working with IDW Publishing on their comic book lines, including Star Trek.

Messina's Star Trek comics have so far been written by two sets of authors: Messina has worked on several series and one-shots written by Scott and David Tipton, starting with the five part TOS miniseries Klingons: Blood Will Tell in 2007. Following this series he and Tipton's produced the first issue of the Alien Spotlight series, and later the miniseries Intelligence Gathering, Mirror Images and Spock: Reflections. In 2009 Messina began working on tie-in comics for the new movie Star Trek, starting with Countdown, written by Mike Johnson and Tim Jones, then the aforementioned Spock: Reflections by the Tiptons, Nero and the Star Trek Movie Adaptation, both by Johnson and Jones.

Messina has also produced covers for most of his comics, the one exception being the Mirror Images series for which he only provided a cover for the first issue.

Prior to becoming a comic book artist Messina worked in animation, on storyboarding and character design. Messina's other credits in IDW comics include extensive work on comics based on the series Angel.

CreditsEdit

• Klingons: Blood Will Tell
  • #1: Against Their Nature
  • #2: Beneath the Skin
  • #3: The Order of Things
  • #4: Blood Reign O'er Me
  • #5: Losses
• Alien Spotlight: Gorn
• Intelligence Gathering
  • #1: Valued Intelligence
  • #2: A Matter of Dates
  • #3: Chasing Shadows
  • #4: Matters of the Mind
  • #5: Disgrace
• Mirror Images
  • "Mirror Images, Issue 1"
  • "Mirror Images, Issue 2"
  • "Mirror Images, Issue 3"
  • "Mirror Images, Issue 4"
  • "Mirror Images, Issue 5"
• Countdown
  • "Countdown, Number One" (art and coloring credits)
  • "Countdown, Number Two"
  • "Countdown, Number Three"
  • "Countdown, Number Four"
• Spock: Reflections (layout credit, with finishes by Federica Manfredi)
  • "Spock: Reflections, Issue 1"
  • "Spock: Reflections, Issue 2"
  • "Spock: Reflections, Issue 3"
  • "Spock: Reflections, Issue 4"
• Nero
  • "Nero, Number One"
  • "Nero, Number Two"
  • "Nero, Number Three"
  • "Nero, Number Four"
• Star Trek Movie Adaptation (pencils)
  • "Star Trek Movie Adaptation, Number One"
  • "Star Trek Movie Adaptation, Number Two"
  • "Star Trek Movie Adaptation, Number Three"
  • "Star Trek Movie Adaptation, Number Four" (with Claudia Balboni)
  • "Star Trek Movie Adaptation, Number Five" (with Claudia Balboni)
  • "Star Trek Movie Adaptation, Number Six" (with Claudia Balboni)

CoversEdit

Against Their Nature

Beneath the Skin

The Order of Things

Blood Reign O'er Me

Losses

Alien Spotlight: The Gorn

Valued Intelligence

A Matter of Dates

Chasing Shadows

Matters of the Mind

Disgrace

German Intelligence Gathering omnibus

Mirror Images, Issue 1 wraparound cover

German Mirror Images omnibus

Countdown, Number One

Countdown, Number Two

Countdown, Number Three

Countdown, Number Four

Spock: Reflections, Issue 1

Spock: Reflections, Issue 2

Spock: Reflections, Issue 3

Spock: Reflections, Issue 4

Spock: Reflections omnibus

German Spock: Reflections paperback omnibus

German Spock: Reflections hardcover omnibus

Nero, Number One

Nero, Number Two

Nero, Number Three

Nero, Number Four

Nero omnibus

German Nero paperback omnibus

German Nero hardcover omnibus

Fool's Gold, Issue 1

Fool's Gold, Issue 2

Fool's Gold, Issue 3

Fool's Gold, Issue 4

Star Trek Movie Adaptation, Number One

Star Trek Movie Adaptation, Number Two

Star Trek Movie Adaptation, Number Three

Star Trek Movie Adaptation, Number Four

Star Trek Movie Adaptation, Number Five

Star Trek Movie Adaptation, Number Six

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AppendicesEdit

IDW Publishing artists
Interior artists	Bob Almond • Javier Aranda • Claudia Balboni • Josep Maria Beroy • John Byrne • Gaetano Carlucci • Elena Casagrande • Chee Yang Ong • Steve Conley • Arianna Florean • Drew Geraci • Gianluigi Gregorini • Mike Hawthorne • Aaron Leach • Casey Maloney • Federica Manfredi • Fabio Mantovani • Jose Marzan Jr. • David Messina • Stephen Molnar • Sean Murphy • Tom Nguyen • Leonard O'Grady • Augustin Padilla • Terry Pallot • Stacie Ponder • Sara Pichelli • Gordon Purcell • Wagner Reis • Marc Rueda • Rob & Joe Sharp • Bob Smith • Stephen Thompson • German Torres-Ruiz • J.K. Woodward
Cover artists	Robert Atkins • Josep Maria Beroy • James Brown • John Byrne • Dennis Calero • Elena Casagrande • Chee Yang Ong • Steve Conley • Joe Corroney • David Deitrick • Jeremy Geddes • Zach Howard • Ken Kelly • Kevin Maguire • David Messina • Sean Murphy • Leonard O'Grady • Augustin Padilla • Bob Peak • Pablo Raimondi • Brian Reber • Nick Runge • Kelsey Shannon • Rob & Joe Sharp • Stephen Thompson • David Williams • J.K. Woodward
Colorists	2B Studio • Davide Amici • Jennifer Baumann • Moose Baumann • Mario Boon • Chiara Cinabro • Andrew Elder • Mike Hawthorne • John Hunt • Jason Jenson • Lovern Kindzierski • Thompson Knox • Paolo Maddaleni • Giovanna Niro • Leonard O'Grady • Mirco Pierfederici • Priscila Ribeiro • Chris Sotomayor • Tom Smith • Ilaria Traversi • J.K. Woodward
Letterers	Robbie Robbins • Chris Mowry • Richard Starkings • Neil Uyetake

External linksEdit

• David Messina article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Spider Behind the Mirror, David Messina's blog.
• David Messina article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.