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Nick started on the "Chrischarger" art before being given ''Spotlight''s, then ''more'' ''Spotlight''s (and a ''[[Devastation (IDW)|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 | Nick started on the "Chrischarger" art before being given ''Spotlight''s, then ''more'' ''Spotlight''s (and a ''[[Devastation (IDW)|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 (IDW)|Target 2006]]'' reprints featuring the original team of [[Wrecker]]s, the covers for the [[Metrodome]] DVD sets of ''[[Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Super-God Masterforce]]'' and ''[[Victory (cartoon)|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 ([[Transformers Comic issue 2|issue 2]]) and the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' comic for [[Titan Books|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]]. In 2010, he's | 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]]. In 2010, he's writing and drawing [[Last Stand of the Wreckers|a Wreckers miniseries]]. And he also writes panto!<ref name="Moonbase Two" /> | ||
Shattered trousers are usually left in his wake. | Shattered trousers are usually left in his wake. | ||
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==Writing== | ==Writing== | ||
* | * "[[Spotlight: Kup]]" | ||
* | * [[All Hail Megatron issue 15|''All Hail Megatron'' #15]] story 1: "Everything in Its Right Place" | ||
*''[[Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' ( | * ''[[Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' (in production) | ||
[[Image:FerreroRocher.jpg|right|158px|thumb|A lesser-known variation on the spelling of Nick's name.]] | [[Image:FerreroRocher.jpg|right|158px|thumb|A lesser-known variation on the spelling of Nick's name.]] | ||
==Comic book art== | ==Comic book art== | ||
===IDW Publishing=== | ===IDW Publishing=== | ||
* | * "[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]" | ||
* | * "[[Spotlight: Hot Rod]]" | ||
* | * "[[Spotlight: Kup]]" | ||
* [[Beast Wars Sourcebook|''Beast Wars'' Sourcebook]] #1, #2 (select pages) | * [[Beast Wars Sourcebook|''Beast Wars'' Sourcebook]] #1, #2 (select pages) | ||
*''[[Devastation (IDW)|Devastation]]'' [[Devastation issue 3|#3]] | * ''[[Devastation (IDW)|Devastation]]'' [[Devastation issue 3|#3]] | ||
* | * "[[Spotlight: Hardhead]]" | ||
*''[[Maximum Dinobots]]'' | * ''[[Maximum Dinobots]]'' | ||
* | * [[All Hail Megatron issue 15|''All Hail Megatron'' #15]] story 1: "Everything in Its Right Place" | ||
*''[[Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' | * ''[[Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' | ||
===Madman Entertainment=== | ===Madman Entertainment=== | ||
* ''Transformers Generation 1'' Complete Collection DVD set ([[The Transformers (Madman)|pack-in comic book]] and [[Matrix]] chamber artwork with [[Don Figueroa]] and [[Josh Burcham]]) | * ''Transformers Generation 1'' Complete Collection DVD set ([[The Transformers (Madman)|pack-in comic book]] and [[Matrix of Leadership]] chamber artwork with [[Don Figueroa]] and [[Josh Burcham]]) | ||
===Titan Books=== | ===Titan Books=== | ||
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2|Transformers | *[[Transformers Comic issue 2|Titan ''Transformers'' comic #2]] | ||
==DVD cover art== | ==DVD cover art== | ||
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==Convention appearances== | ==Convention appearances== | ||
* [[BotCon]] ([[BotCon 2009|2009]]) | * [[BotCon]] ([[BotCon 2009|2009]]) | ||
* [[Auto Assembly]] (2009) | * [[Unofficial conventions|Auto Assembly]] (2009) | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
* Nick Roche's art style is instantly recognizable in a comic due to his semi-stylized lines. According to him, he just "makes the hands bigger and the pointy bits pointier", and he would like to draw with "[[Geoff Senior|Senior's]] energy, [[Andrew Wildman|Wildman's]] expressiveness and [[Derek Yaniger|Yaniger's]] chins!". He is also noted for being able to change his drawing style. He says he finds he does change it automatically depending on the story, such as upping the cartooniness for | * Nick Roche's art style is instantly recognizable in a comic due to his semi-stylized lines. According to him, he just "makes the hands bigger and the pointy bits pointier", and he would like to draw with "[[Geoff Senior|Senior's]] energy, [[Andrew Wildman|Wildman's]] expressiveness and [[Derek Yaniger|Yaniger's]] chins!". He is also noted for being able to change his drawing style. He says he finds he does change it automatically depending on the story, such as upping the cartooniness for "Spotlight Hot Rod" and toning it down for a story from [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl's]] point of view.<ref name="Moonbase Two" /> | ||
* The cover for #1 of ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' shows three early-90s European G1 characters (toys out when Roche was young) and a recurring Marvel UK guy (who Roche would've grown up reading).<ref>[http://dcjosh.deviantart.com/art/Last-Stand-of-the-Wreckers-130852263 Last Stand of the Wreckers #1 cover]</ref> Nostalgia! (And in two cases, this'll be the first fictional appearance these guys ever got!) | * The cover for #1 of ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' shows three early-90s European G1 characters (toys out when Roche was young) and a recurring Marvel UK guy (who Roche would've grown up reading).<ref>[http://dcjosh.deviantart.com/art/Last-Stand-of-the-Wreckers-130852263 Last Stand of the Wreckers #1 cover]</ref> Nostalgia! (And in two cases, this'll be the first fictional appearance these guys ever got!) | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<center><gallery> | <center><gallery> | ||
Image:SpotlightHotRod rush.jpg|[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] enjoys freefalling to a planet in [[Spotlight: Hot Rod]]. | Image:SpotlightHotRod rush.jpg|[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] enjoys freefalling to a planet in "[[Spotlight: Hot Rod]]". | ||
Image:TFGenerations12.jpg|[[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]]'s never looked this cool before or since. Cover art for [[Generations (comic reprints)|Transformers: Generations]] issue #12. | Image:TFGenerations12.jpg|[[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]]'s never looked this cool before or since. Cover art for ''[[Generations (comic reprints)|Transformers: Generations]]'' issue #12. | ||
Image:SpotlightHardhead HardheadsHeadshot.jpg|[[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]]'s got a hard head in [[Spotlight: Hardhead]]. | Image:SpotlightHardhead HardheadsHeadshot.jpg|[[Hardhead (G1)|Hardhead]]'s got a hard head in "[[Spotlight: Hardhead]]". | ||
Image:AHM15 SpringerpunchesProwl.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] is [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]'s personal punching bag in [[All Hail Megatron issue 15|''All Hail Megatron'' #15]] | Image:AHM15 SpringerpunchesProwl.jpg|[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] is [[Springer (G1)|Springer]]'s personal punching bag in [[All Hail Megatron issue 15|''All Hail Megatron'' #15]] | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
*''[[:Category:Images by Nick Roche|Extended Nick Roche gallery]]''</center> | * ''[[:Category:Images by Nick Roche|Extended Nick Roche gallery]]''</center> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 07:30, 30 January 2010
Nick Roche 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 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".[1] 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. In 2010, he's writing and drawing a Wreckers miniseries. And he also writes panto![1]
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[2]
Writing
- "Spotlight: Kup"
- All Hail Megatron #15 story 1: "Everything in Its Right Place"
- Last Stand of the Wreckers (in production)
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
- All Hail Megatron #15 story 1: "Everything in Its Right Place"
- Last Stand of the Wreckers
Madman Entertainment
- Transformers Generation 1 Complete Collection DVD set (pack-in comic book and Matrix of Leadership chamber artwork with Don Figueroa and Josh Burcham)
Titan Books
DVD cover art
Convention appearances
- BotCon (2009)
- Auto Assembly (2009)
Notes
- Nick Roche's art style is instantly recognizable in a comic due to his semi-stylized lines. 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!". He is also noted for being able to change his drawing style. He says he finds he does change it 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.[1]
- The cover for #1 of Last Stand of the Wreckers shows three early-90s European G1 characters (toys out when Roche was young) and a recurring Marvel UK guy (who Roche would've grown up reading).[3] Nostalgia! (And in two cases, this'll be the first fictional appearance these guys ever got!)
Gallery
-
Hot Rod enjoys freefalling to a planet in "Spotlight: Hot Rod". -
Buster Witwicky's never looked this cool before or since. Cover art for Transformers: Generations issue #12. -
Hardhead's got a hard head in "Spotlight: Hardhead". -
