Kei Zama

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Kei Zama (座間 慧 Zama Kei) is a Japanese comic artist and metalhead. After discovering Last Stand of the Wreckers, they fell hard for Transformers and started hunting down every Western comic they could, with Geoff Senior and Derek Yaniger being faves and influences for their "powerful and aggressive" styles.

Starting as a regular cover artist for IDW Publishing, they became the regular artist on Optimus Prime in late 2016.

As well as Transformers, they've drawn for their fan-fave 2000 AD: starting with those other war robots, ABC Warriors, for a 2017 Free Comic Book Day special. They were unsure about doing it at the same time as starting their ongoing Optimus Prime gig but John Barber, their co-creator, talked them into it.

Published work

IDW Publishing

Interiors

• Optimus Prime #1–3, #5–6, #9, #10 (5 pages), #11 (3 pages), #15–17, #20, #21 (9 pages), #25
• Transformers: Unicron #6 (9 pages)

Covers

• The Transformers: Windblade (vol.2) #7
• The Transformers (vol.2) #45, #56
• The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye #45
• Optimus Prime #1–25

verse Comics

• Optimus Prime T-shirt art.
• Megatron T-shirt art.

Villagebooks

• The Transformers: Megatron Origin (Japanese reprint cover)

Gallery

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Extended Kei Zama gallery

External links

• Kei Zama's Twitter feed
• Kei Zama's website

Interviews

• December 2016—Comicosity (with John Barber)