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John Rauch (born 21 September 1980; age 44) is a comic book artist specializing in color art. He broke into the industry in mid-2003 doing work for Image Comics before moving to Marvel Comics in early 2005 and working on titles such as Fantastic Four and Spider-Man. In 2006 he began working for IDW Publishing coloring their Transformers: Infiltration series, drawn by E.J. Su. He continued working for Marvel on their Dark Reign and Fear Itself crossover series, while also doing a number of covers for IDW.
He began working as the color artist on IDW's Star Trek: Ongoing series in late 2011.