Don Figueroa

The DON, artist, designer and a career batting average of 99.94

Don Allan Figueroa is a Filipino American artist and a toy designer. Originally, he was the writer and artist of the fan-comic series "Macromasters," which featured his original designs, of which he would build transformable, scratch-built toys. When Dreamwave Productions received the Transformers comic book license, Figueroa was initially signed on to illustrate packaging art for the Armada toy line, and subsequently he would pencil The War Within miniseries. For the latter, Figueroa designed a pre-Earth mode for every single character (with the exception of Megatron, whose design was done by Pat Lee) that appeared in the series. Aaron Archer took notice of his talents, and Figueroa helped design toys for Hasbro, most notably the Titanium and Classics series, as well as contributing art to IDW Publishing's new range of Transformers comics.

He has recently left the Transformers franchise as his primary creative work, said to be taking an indefinite break.

Everyone still loves him though.

Don's 'secret file' sketches for the The War Within collections include the login 'Maraudimus Prime,' one of his screen names.

Comic book art

Dreamwave

• The War Within #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6
• Armada #14, #15, #16, #17
• Generation One ongoing #0, #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10
• Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Profile books

IDW Publishing

• The Gathering #1, #2, #3, #4
• Stormbringer #1, #2, #3, #4
• The Animated Movie #1, #2, #3, #4
• Movie Prequel #1, #2, #3, #4
• Spotlight: Optimus Prime
• The Ascending #1, #2, #3
• Beast Wars Sourcebook, part 1 (select pages)
• Beast Wars Sourcebook, part 2 (select pages)

Titan Magazines

• Transformers Comic issue 4

DVD cover art

Madman Entertainment

• The Transformers: The Movie (2003 Australian DVD release)

Sony Wonder

• The Transformers: The Movie 20th Anniversary Edition DVD

Transformers packaging art

Armada

• Adventure Mini-Con Team
• Blurr
• Hoist
• Powerlinx Hot Shot
• Galvatron
• Nemesis Prime
• Powerlinx Optimus Prime
• Skywarp
• Starscream
• Street Speed Mini-Con Team
• Thundercracker
• Tidal Wave
• Unicron
• Wheeljack

Energon

• Hot Shot
• Inferno
• Ironhide
• Megatron
• Scorponok
• Tidal Wave

Timelines

• Games of Deception

Transformers toy designs

Titanium

• All 6" Titanium figures

Classics

• Optimus Prime
• Rodimus
• Starscream

Despite popular opinion to the contrary, Don did not actually design Classics Jetfire. According to him, he had seen the design some time before the public did, and decided to use it in IDW Publishing's Stormbringer mini-series.

Trivia

• According to Transformers screenwriter Roberto Orci, the surname of Jorge Figueroa refers to both a friend of the writer and Don Figueroa.[1]

External links

• Interview with Don Figueroa at TFW2005.com
  
  
  From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.