Nick Roche

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Nick Roche (born September 5, 1979 <ref>"The Twenty-Nine Club"</ref>) is an Irish comic book artist and writer for IDW Publishing. He is awesome.

Nick Roche is a native of County Wexford, but currently resides in Dublin, Ireland. Having always been a massive Transformers fan, Roche's produced artwork for fan fiction, including the Transmasters UK (TMUK) group, and UK convention publications, gaining a healthy fanbase within the UK, but remaining almost entirely unknown outside of the tight-knit UK fandom.

He pitched his work to Dreamwave Productions but had no response, something he's glad about in hindsight; he notes "at the time, I'd have worked for free but it turns out everyone else at Dreamwave was doing that anyway".<ref name="Moonbase Two">Nick Roche interview with Moonbase Two</ref> Nick finally got his break into Transformers when IDW Publishing acquired the Transformers license. A friend of Nick's by the name of Dave Hendrick sent IDW supremo Chris Ryall Nick's samples.

Twenty minutes later there was an email back from Chris.

Nick started on the "Chrischarger" art before being given Spotlights, then more Spotlights (and a Devastation fill-in) before being given the Maximum Dinobots mini-series. He's also penciled numerous covers for the different Transformers series, including a piece for the Target 2006 reprints featuring the original team of Wreckers, the covers for the Metrodome DVD sets of Super-God Masterforce and Victory, and a special comic and a piece of artwork packed with Madman Entertainment's Generation 1 DVD set. Nick has also worked on the new Transformers UK comic book (issue 2) and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic for Titan.

If that wasn't enough, Nick drew and wrote Spotlight: Kup, which also has the distinction of being the first issue in the IDW G1 continuity written by someone other than Simon Furman. He co-wrote and drew the incredibly well-received Last Stand of the Wreckers with James Roberts. He's even made the jump to TV, becoming a character designer for Transformers: EarthSpark. And he also writes panto!<ref name="Moonbase Two" />

Look: you can't comprehend the scale of trouser destruction that will occur. The current financial crisis? Pffah! There will be people wandering around this Christmas with next to no trouser coverage. And as for the potentially countless children who will lose their sight and sense of decency from flying pant-shards...well, it doesn't bear thinking about. No gusset is safe this Christmas.{{#if:|{{{quote2}}}}}{{#if:|{{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}|}}|}}

Writing

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Nick's writing often tackles or addresses the concept of change within Cybertronians, both as a shapeshifting race and a culture left in stasis by millennia of war. Many of his stories have unflinching and graphic robotic violence—dismemberment, decapitation, bodily mutilation, and copious amounts of blood, among other things. Like Roberts, he also has a tendency to use characters with little or no previous media appearances—Last Stand of the Wreckers featured a cast almost entirely composed of European toy-exclusives and obscure Japanese characters, while Sins of the Wreckers introduced many characters from the Beast Era as antagonists. Also, he put Tidal Wave into the IDWverse, because that's just how cool he is.

Comic book art

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Roche's art style is instantly recognizable in a comic due to his strong shapes, exaggerated proportions and bold, simple character designs. According to him, he just "makes the hands bigger and the pointy bits pointier", and he would like to draw with "Senior's energy, Wildman's expressiveness and Yaniger's chins!". According to Roche, he finds he does change his art style automatically depending on the story; such as upping the cartooniness for "Spotlight: Hot Rod" and toning it down for a story from Prowl's point of view.<ref name="Moonbase Two" />

A lesser-known variation on the spelling of Nick's name.

IDW Publishing

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Madman Entertainment

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Titan Books

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Character design

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EarthSpark

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Toy design

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Nick Roche was contracted to draw the initial designs for a handful of toys.<ref>{{#if: @fearmylaserface Sandstorm I actually did the design-work for...Coupla heads on TFCC CD&RW. Homagey-ish ROTF Guzzle. Otherwise, you got 'em! |"@fearmylaserface Sandstorm I actually did the design-work for...Coupla heads on TFCC CD&RW. Homagey-ish ROTF Guzzle. Otherwise, you got 'em!"—|}}{{#if: https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/566974332816334848 |NickRoche|NickRoche}}{{#if: Twitter |, Twitter|}}{{#if: |, ""|}}{{#if: 2015 |, 2015{{#if: 2 |/{{#switch:{{#len:2}}|1=02|2}}{{#if: 15|/{{#switch:{{#len:15}}|1=015|15}}|}}}}|}}{{#if: https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/566974332816334848 ||}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/566974332816334848%7C7%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/566974332816334848%7C8%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/566974332816334848%7C7%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/566974332816334848%7C8%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#if: | (dead link)}}</ref><ref>{{#if: And, by very kind permission from Hasbro, here's some concept artwork for Generations Voyager Sandstorm. http://t.co/2ai25Fm7S7 |"And, by very kind permission from Hasbro, here's some concept artwork for Generations Voyager Sandstorm. http://t.co/2ai25Fm7S7"—|}}{{#if: https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/364780908349366273 |NickRoche|NickRoche}}{{#if: Twitter |, Twitter|}}{{#if: |, ""|}}{{#if: 2013 |, 2013{{#if: 8 |/{{#switch:{{#len:8}}|1=08|8}}{{#if: 6|/{{#switch:{{#len:6}}|1=06|6}}|}}}}|}}{{#if: https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/364780908349366273 ||}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/364780908349366273%7C7%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/364780908349366273%7C8%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/364780908349366273%7C7%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/364780908349366273%7C8%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#if: | (dead link)}}</ref>

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Timelines

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DVD cover art

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Metrodome

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Convention appearances

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Notes

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Fiction

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2005 IDW continuity

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Nick was sitting at a signing table at Auto Assembly 2009 when Grimlock barged his way past Gregg Berger and Liam Shalloo, complaining about his absence from All Hail Megatron. All Hail Megatron #13 cover One year later, Auto Assembly 2010 attendees could apparently "buy Nick's pants" at Swindle's charity auction and tombola. The Transformers #9 cover

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Interviews

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References

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