David Reddick is the creator of the comic strip "
The Trek Life" for the official
Star Trek Web site STARTREK.COM. Since July of 2005, "The Trek Life" has been growing in popularity as it appears weekly on STARTREK.COM, as well as a regular feature in the officially-licensed "Star Trek Magazine," published by Titan Publishing in the US and UK and distributed worldwide, and now as a regular backup comic book page feature in IDW Publishing's officially licensed Star Trek comic books. "The Trek Life" is also featured on a full line of popular products, from t-shirts to coffee mugs to mousepads and beyond in the
STARTREK.COM Shop, and original "The Trek Life" comic strips are available in the official CBS
Star Trek Store. One of The Trek Life's characters, Kate Stevens, now even has her own advice column on STARTREK.COM, called "Ask Kate," which appears every other Wednesday.
"The Trek Life" has also been gaining international attention through not only its home at the Star Trek Website, but through genre fan sites worldwide, newspaper and magazine articles, the esteemed Editor & Publisher magazine, and various interviews, such as with Chase Masterson (Leeta from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) on the popular sci-fi/pop-culture Web site, TheFandom.com, along with Bobbi Sue Luther, the green Orion woman from Star Trek: Enterprise. David is also now being invited to Star Trek and Sci-Fi conventions around the country, such as his recent visit to Creation Entertainment's official 40th anniversary Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, where he was a guest and stage speaker. David is also a regular artist for such notable convention hosts as Creation Entertainment, Vulkon Entertainment and Starbase Indy as well.
An extreme Star Trek fan since childhood, "The Trek Life" represents a merging of David's two greatest passions into one, cartooning and Star Trek. David is also an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and books nationwide, including Nickelodeon magazine, The New York Times Upfront, Woman's World, and First for Women, to name a few. His cartoons have been distributed to hundreds of newspapers nationwide by the Scripps Howard News Service, CNHI News Service, American Publishing's National News Syndicate, worldwide through Artizans Syndicate, and in King Features Syndicate's "The New Breed."
David spent six years as the award-winning staff cartoonist and newsroom artist for a daily newspaper in Indiana before joining the staff of Paws, Inc., where he now writes and draws for the world-famous "Garfield" comic strip, as well as works as an artist and writer for worldwide Garfield licensing, publishing and merchandise.
David's first cartoon book of single-panel cartoons, titled "Reddick's Rhetoric: A Cartoon Collection by David Reddick" was published in 2002.
David is also a painter, and has painted wall murals in Florida and Japan, and has held several exhibitions of his paintings and original cartoons in galleries ranging from Anderson and Indianapolis, Indiana, to Florida, Michigan, England and France. One of his original paintings and three original cartoons are included in the permanent collection of the Muskegon Museum of Art.
David studied art at The Herron School of Art before deciding to see the world and joining the U.S. Navy for four years, three of which were spent in Okinawa, Japan. Upon discovering David's art ability while drawing a scathing caricature of one of his Company Commanders in boot camp, David was rewarded with 250 push-ups and 250 sit-ups before being asked to paint a mural on the Command Center wall. Thereafter, David spent most of his Navy time creating paintings and special art assignments for Captains, Commanders and Superiors, earning him two Letters of Appreciation and one Letter of Commendation from The U.S. Navy at 22 years old.
