Transforce 2004 - Saturday August 28th 2004 - The UK's biggest
Transformers convention. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Robots
in Disguise
Martin Griffiths, Simon
Furman and Geoff Senior at Transforce 2002
Bryan
Hitch
Bryan Hitch is well known for his art on The Authority, and The Ultimates.
Bryan is currently working as a designer on the new Dr Who television
series for the BBC.
Bryan's Transformers work included epics such as The Legacy of Unicron
and Space Pirates.
Jeff Anderson Jeff is highly
regarded for his work on the UK comic, including stories such as 'Target
2006', 'Prey', 'Fallen Angel', 'Vicious Circle' and 'Grudge Match' among
many more. Jeff has also worked on titles such as Judge Dredd, Mstech
Wars, Shadow's Edge, and of course his epic 'The Graphic Bible'. The Transformers
work Jeff is most proud of is the page that introduced the original Galvatron
in 'Target 2006'.
"We didn't have the refs for him, so I had to draw
him from the toy. A few days later we got the refs from the film and he
looked completely different. Pros that we were we just said 'it'll do'
and left it". We're glad you did Jeff. This will be Jeff's first appearance
at a Transformers convention.
Steve White
Steve is currently the editior for Titan Publishing. In the past he has
worked in a considerable number of roles within the comic industry. Steve
has written Action Force, Ghostbusters and Knights of Pendragon, Hypersonic
(for Dark Horse), among others, as well as edited Death's Head, The Punisher
and Action Force. He was colourist for Transformers, Action Force, Dragon's
Claws and Sonic the Hedgehog. Steve has also provided covers for 2000AD
and cards for Magic the Gathering. Lew Stringer based his character 'Semi-automatic
Steve' on Steve White, or so he says.
Simon
Williams
Unfortunately, Simon will not be able to make it this year, however
you can see some of this work on his website.
Many thanks to Simon for his support.
Simon is a relative newcomer to Transformers. He was a strip and cover
artist on the UK Armada comic, sharing the load with Lee Sullivan
and Andrew Wildman. Simon is currently working on Spectacular Spiderman
for Panini and artwork for the Transformers Season 3/4 boxed set for
Metrodome as well as his own very entertaining Discotronic
Funk Commandos.
Simon Furman
is a
writer for comics and animation. He has been associated with Transformers
for 20 years now, from his position as writer on the original UK generation
1 comic, to generation 2, Beast Wars and Alignment. More recently Simon
has written the War Within, Armada and Energon for Dreamwave. Other than
Transformers, Simon's work includes Death’s Head, Alpha Flight, Turok,
Robocop and What If? He has written for animated TV shows such as Beast
Wars, Dan Dare, Roswell Conspiracies and X-Men: Evolution and the upcoming
Legend of the Dragon. On top of this Simon still finds time to edit the
range of Titan Transformers reprints and Wallace & Gromit graphic novels.
His recent writing work includes Doll, a manga title for Tokyopop; Transformers:
The Ultimate Guide for Dorling Kindersley, a and a Dr. Who audio adventure
for Big Finish.
Andrew Wildman
first started work in the realm of comics on UK titles such as Ghostbusters,
Thundercats and Galaxy Rangers. Eventually he moved on to UK, and eventually
and US Transformers where he became the series permanent artist. Andrew
worked on a variety of othe Marvel US titles, including Spider-Man, Spider-Man
2099, GI Joe, X-Men Adventures, The Hulk, Venom and Fantastic Four Unplugged.
Andrew worked for a while at UK based computer game company Rebellion.
Andrew recently drew Transformers Armada for Marvel UK (Panini) and Transformers
The War Within for Dreamwave productions. He is also currently working
on a new childrens TV animated series, Legend of The Dragon.
Lew Stringer
produced the popular "back up" strips for several of the Marvel UK
weeklies. Captain Wally and Snail-Man appeared in Spider-Man, and
Robo Capers featured in Transformers. When Action Force joined the
Transformers weekly, Combat
Colin replaced Robo Capers. Combat Colin is to date still Lew's
favourite creation. Currently Lew is producing Suburban Satanists
for Herman Hedning comic (Sweden and Norway), "Team Toxic" for TOXIC
magazine, "Horror Bags" for LUCKY BAG COMIC, the infamous "Tranny
Magnet" (and sometimes others) for VIZ. Also artwork for Ronald McDonald
Magazine (Free in McDonalds with kids meals). Lew produced a brand
new Combat Colin story for Transforce 2000.
Lew Stringer
at Transforce 2000
Metrodome produce
the UK's Transformers DVDs. So far they have been responsible for the
re-release of Transformers: The Movie and Season 1, 2 and forthcoming
season 3 boxed sets of the Generation 1 TV series.
Jack Lawrence
Jack Lawrence first appeared in 1995, illustrating several TMUK (Transmasters
UK) fanzines, including CG2, Beast Wars and Transmasters UK. After spending
a few years as an animator and character designer for a UK based New Media
company, Jack made the transition to professional comic creator in May
2003, with the launch of his creator-owned title, Darkham Vale, which
is published by the UK's leading comic book company, APComics.
Jack writes Darkham Vale, as well as providing the art, colours and letters.
Alongside his comic book work, Jack is involved with character, vehicle
and prop designs for UK based Treehouse Animations. He is currently working
on the second volume of Darkham Vale.
One lucky preregistrant will automatically have a chance to a 20th Anniversary
Optimus Prime.
Metrodome will have their camera out at Transforce 2004, will you appear
in the background on a forthcoming DVD?
