Dan Reed
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Dan Reed is an American artist who worked on the Marvel UK Transformers comic book series while living in France (convoluted!). Perhaps the most unconventional artist to work on the series, Reed was known for his "wobbly" Transformers, rendered in an organic style that was either loved or despised by readers.
His first strip work was issue 115's Burning Sky!. Story arcs either partially or entirely illustrated by Reed include The Legacy of Unicron!, City of Fear!, Space Pirates!, and Time Wars.
He was also the first "UK" artist to work on the US comic, beating out both Geoff Senior and Andrew Wildman by doing the cover of issue #56.
Reed's French residence meant that the art would always arrive at the eleventh hour. One time, it got so late that Dan Reed jumped on a ferry to bring it in personally—only to be stopped by customs for not having money with him and have his art seized! ("Everybody in the office is watching the colour drain from my face," recounted Furman) Even after his release, one of the pages 'went walkies' in Customs and Reed had to redraw the whole thing at Marvel's office while the rest was being coloured and lettered. <ref>Furman and Wildman interview at Fractal Images (archived)</ref>
Illustrator
[edit]Comic art
[edit]Marvel UK
[edit]- Art for The Transformers issues 115, 119, 133, 137, 148-149, 164-165, 170-171, 182-183, 202-203, 219-220, the Transformers Annual 1989 story "All in the Minds!" and the Transformers Annual 1990 story "The Chain Gang!"
- Pencils for The Transformers issue 132 and the Transformers Annual 1990 story "Dreadwing Down!"
Marvel US
[edit]- Inks for The Transformers issue 64
Cover art
[edit]Marvel UK
[edit]Marvel US
[edit]- The Transformers issue 56
Gallery
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RAWRRRR. -
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Dan Reed, you perv.
Notes
[edit]- Dan Reed appears to have drawn himself into a crowd scene in "Deadly Games!", where he was colored in shade of blue.
