The Ark series

The name or term "Ark" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Ark (disambiguation).

The Ark series is a series of non-fiction guidebooks chronicling Transformers character models produced by Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster beginning in the year 2007.

Despite being a specialty product caters to a fantastically small audience printed on heavy-stock premium paper, the series has sold absurdly well.

The Ark Series

• 2007 — The Ark: A Complete Compendium of Character Designs — Character models for the US cartoon.
• 2008 — The Ark II — A Compendium of Japanese Character Designs — Character models for the Japanese cartoon
• 2009 — Transformers: The Complete Ark — Omnibus addition of v1 and v2, with edits, additions, corrections and new content to replace pages that were dropped because they overlapped between the two volumes.

The Ark Addendum

In addition to the Ark book series, Jim Sorenson has published several Ark Adendums on his blog, featuring character models too trivial to include in the book, or expanded profiles (such as weapon details) which simply could not fit in the print edition.

• July 7, 2009 — Ark Addendum: MegaZarak Transforms (redux)
• July 14, 2009 — Ark Addendum: Darkwings Combined
• July 20, 2009 — Ark Addendum: Galvatron's Transform
• July 28, 2009 — Ark Addendum: The Shadow Emperor, Scorponok

• September 1, 2009 — Ark Addendum: Unicron
• September 8, 2009 — Ark Addendum: Ginrai's Interior
• September 22, 2009 — Ark Addendum: Fire in the Sky
• Sept 29, 2009 — Ark Addendum: Darkwings' Weapons

Related

• 2009 — Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac
• Untitled Allspark Almanac v2 — tentative