Nick Roche

The man himself...

Nick Roche is an Irish comic book artist for IDW Publishing who currently does interiors and alternate covers for the Transformers Spotlight series of comic book one shots. 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 and UK convention publications, gaining a healthy fanbase within the UK, but remaining almost entirely unknown outside of the tight-knit UK fandom.

Nick got his break into Transformers when IDW Publishing acquired the Transformers license after Dreamwave Comics folded. 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 mainly drew 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.

Shattered trousers are usually left in his wake.

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.Nick on the imminent release of Maximum Dinobots # 1

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

Writing

• Spotlight: Kup

Comic book art

IDW Publishing

• Spotlight: Shockwave
• Spotlight: Hot Rod
• Spotlight: Kup
• Beast Wars Sourcebook #1, #2 (select pages)
• Devastation #3
• Spotlight: Hardhead
• Maximum Dinobots

Madman Entertainment

• Transformers Generation 1 Complete Collection DVD set (pack-in comic book and Matrix chamber artwork with Don Figueroa and Josh Burcham)

Titan Books

• Transformers Comic #2

DVD cover art

Metrodome

• Transformers Takara Collection Super-God Masterforce
• Transformers Takara Collection Victory

Convention appearances

• BotCon (2009)
• Auto Assembly (2009)

External links

• Nick Roche's blog