Editing Nelson Yomtov

'''Nelson Yomtov''' (born [[February 29]], 19??) was the colourist of every single issue of the Generation 1 Marvel US Transformers comic book.  He is usually credited as '''Nel Yomtov.'''

Outside of Transformers, Yomtov was also an editor, and writer; writing several books about baseball and conspiracy-based concepts like UFOs.

==Contributions to Transformers==
Yomtov coloured all 80 issues of the original Marvel US comics series, and all the miniseries; Universe, Headmasters, Movie, vs. G.I. Joe. In fact, until its revival in Generation 2, Nel Yomtov was the only colorist at all on any Marvel US Transformers comics, including the two issues reprinted from Marvel UK. He was also the only creative talent to stay with the book for its entire original run -- a lengthy run of 7 years. This makes Nel Yomtov one of the most consistent creative forces in Transformers comics history.

[[Image:Earlymegatron.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Marvel Megatron's helmet wasn't blue just 'cuz Yomtov felt like it.]]

Because he was the only colorist ever credited on Transformers, Yomtov has also been given credit for many creative color choices that made the Marvel comics stand out from its cartoon counterpart.  Many of these coloring choices, however, are artifacts of production material that would be revised before use in the cartoon.  For example, Yomtov colored Megatron's helmet blue or black throughout the comic's run because the first [[character model]]s for Megatron did so, but the cartoon would change the head's color to silver like the rest of his body.  These circumstances similarly affected Yomtov's color schemes for Soundwave and Starscream.  

He even made decisions which seperated the US comics from their UK counterparts. For example, his Emirate Xaaron was solid yellow, instead of his more varied UK color scheme.

Though Yomtov can be given credit for the colors of all of the internal art, this is not true of the covers, some of which were done in a painterly style by the original artist.  Even for those covers which weren't painted, credits for cover art at the time were fairly slapdash, so it is difficult to discern.  

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Image:Starscreamdisintegratedcircuits.jpg|Early preproduction material gave Starscream a black chest, hence Starscream's blues
Image:TreadshotMarvel.jpg|Likewise, the first commercial for Soundwave colored him up in lavender.
Image:Galvatron2vsmegatron.jpg|Both Yomtov and the UK colorists used Galvatron's toy colors.  
Image:Xaarondelbo.jpg|Though apparently Xaaron lost all his non-yellow colors sometime around 1989.
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==Criticism of Yomtov's work==
[[Image:Scorponokbase-interior2.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Transformers like to bleach their technology.]]
Despite the volume of Nel Yomtov's work on Transformers, its quality has often been called into question. Yomtov made many coloring errors -- coloring characters the wrong way, making up entirely new color schemes for guys he didn't know, coloring one character as another character and even coloring characters based on their Pretender shells or secondary components.

His colors have often been criticised for laziness, due to Yomtov's fondness for coloring group scenes or backgrounds in block colors. His extensive use of white in later Cybertron scenes, and his love of mono-chrome (all green! all pink!) flashbacks have also come under criticism.  Yomtov's supporters note that many of these techniques are perfectly valid artistic techniques, used to make scenes easier to read or more interesting, or to create higher contrast in an image.

Yomtov has been quoted as saying that it was quite a challenge to keep up with all the new characters that were constantly being introduced at Hasbro's insistence. {{fact}}

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