José Delbo

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Pictured: Delbo receiving an award for Most Adorable Man.

José Delbo (born December 9, 1933) is an Argentinian-born artist who worked in the American comics field for over 30 years. He joined the original Marvel Transformers comic series from 1988 as its penciller and continued through 1990.

After working on Transformers, he reunited with Transformers scribe Simon Furman for the four-issue limited series Brute Force, also published by Marvel Comics.

José Delbo is frequently credited as 'Jose Delbo' due to English speakers' difficulty with diacriticals.

Illustrator

Comic art

Cover art pencils

  • "Toy Soldiers!"
  • "The Desert Island of Space!"
  • "Pretender to the Throne!"
  • "Totaled!"
  • "People Power!"
  • "The Flames of Boltax!"
  • "Cold War!"
  • "Dark Star"
  • "The Man in the Machine!"
  • "Guess Who the Mecannibals Are Having for Dinner?"
  • "King Con!"
  • "The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship!"
  • "The Resurrection Gambit!"
  • "All the Familiar Faces!"
  • "Skin Deep"
  • "Yesterday's Heroes!"

Notes

Van Gogh-Bot.
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina, was one of three Earth cities that the Underbase-enhanced super-Starscream chose to destroy at the climax of the Underbase Saga. This seemingly random choice (the other two cities, New York and Tokyo, are two of the most populous on Earth, but Buenos Aires is far from #3) was actually a nod to José Delbo’s birthplace.
  • Delbo was often very literal with his translations of the Transformers characters, occasionally copying their appearance and pose directly from their Transformers Universe profile art. Sometimes this backfired on him. In the original profile art, Starscream’s right "ear" is blocked from view by his shoulder intake. Delbo consistently interpreted this as Starscream having only one “ear.”
  • Sometimes Delbo wasn't literal enough with his interpretations of Transformers character art, like when he drew Slingshot with a jet nosecone over each shoulder! Slingshot's Transformers Universe art draws him at such an angle that it looks like the jet nosecone was over his left shoulder, and Delbo extrapolated there must have been an unseen nosecone mirrored on the other side.
  • He also liked to reuse his own compositions a lot, though to his credit they were always completely redrawn.
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