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Lists are fun! Here's my Top 8...

1) GEOFF SENIOR - far and away my favourite. His storytelling is unsurpassed. Genius.

2) WILLIAM JOHNSON - if I remember correctly he only did two US issues (#7 and 8) but he was, bar Senior, the best artist the Marvel run ever had. Wonderfully natural lines. Such a shame he wasn't on the book more regularly.

3) E.J. SU - love, love, love his stuff. By far the best of the recent crop of artists. Clear, crisp storytelling, great designs - and he can draw both humans and robots, unlike most of the Dreamwave bunch and some of IDW's other guys. Draws headlights like nobody's business.

4) BRYAN HITCH - he's only gotten better since his TF days but his early stuff is fantastic. Cyclonus and Scourge attacking a fighter jet... ah, brilliant. And wasn't he about 10 when he joined the team?

5) JOHN RIDGEWAY - another Marvel UK alumnus. Man Of Iron, Enemy Within. Again, great at humans and robots. Stuck pretty close to the toy designs but gave the Transformers a real alien quality and sense of scale.

6) DON FIGUEROA - I'm begrudgingly including him in this list... He can draw a mean Transformer, no doubt about it, and the level of detail he puts in is admirable (if sometimes obscured by overbearing colouring), but he can't draw people to save his life. He's no all rounder, then, but if you want fantastic robots...

7) RON SMITH - did only one UK issue (#82), for shame. A great artist whose style suited TF to a tee. Does superb mouths. Love his stuff.

8) FRANK SPRINGER - one of the pioneers. Sure, his stuff's kind of scrappy and the model designs are all over the place, but it was early days and it doesn't really matter as his work had a crackling energy and real sense of the size of the Transformers as they tear through town.

Don Figueroa and Pat Lee FTW. all the more for Don because he's my countrymate. cheers.

In no particular order:

Guido Guido
Don Figueroa
Goeff Senior
E.J. Su

All have contributed much to Transformers artwork, and to be honest I could not care less how they draw squishies, its the giant transforming robots that matter.

My top 3

3) Guido Guidi
2) Pat Lee
1) Don Figueroa

These guys got me to buying the tf comics and that's saying a lot coming from me.

Shinobi Rendar wrote:My top 3

3) Guido Guidi
2) Pat Lee
1) Don Figueroa

These guys got me to buying the tf comics and that's saying a lot coming from me.

I think that Fig guy in the Transformers movie was named after that artist. In the book it's the same name, and his nickname is Fig.

One more:

9) Jerry Paris: only did UK covers, #150 among them. Shame he never did any strip work, as his art was stunning. Look at that Unicron on the back of #150's wraparound! Amazing stuff.

At the top of the head, here's my top 4:
#1 - gotta go with Don the man! Awesome TFs
#2 - Guido, love his cartoon style!
#3 - NGboy, that's for doing a great job in UMagnus MTMTE/ WWI
#4 - Musso, great work in the Magnus Spotlight. Now the Ramjet art looks even more superb.