I’ve been selling prints at conventions for some time, but now they can also be ordered at MattDrawsRobots.com! All the pieces I have prints of are there. And the Tumblr posts of those pieces now have links to their store pages. Enjoy!
TRANSFORMERS 30th Anniversary Prints by Guido Guidi
Celebrate 30 years of TRANSFORMERS with these amazing G1 inspired prints by Guido Guidi! Finally we can show the world this amazing collectable set. Guido is widely known in the world of TRANSFORMERS for his comic book work and many other accolades related to TRANSFORMERS. We were extremely excited to have him work with us on this release. Many of your favorite AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS and portrayed in a classic throwback retro style. The regular editions will be professionally printed Giclee fineart prints, printed by the amazing staff over at GicleeToday.com. The variant editions will feature Glow in the Darkand will be screen printed by D&L Screenprinting. See more details about the release below!
Available for purchase at www.acidfreegallery.com
Produced by Acidfree Gallery
Officially Licensed by Hasbro
Printed by D&L Screen Printing
Stay tuned to our facebook and twitter to see a preview of the glow in the dark effect!
Lord Imperious Delirious: Transformers by ZeroMayhem
Medusa: Transformers by ZeroMayhem
Lord Imperious Delirious, leader of the Destructons, and Medusa profile art from the Transformers Collectors’ Club Magazine #59!
Line art by the fantastic Casey W. Coller!
Colors and character original color schemes by me!
Transformers (C) Takara Tomy/Hasbro
Lord Imperious Delirious DGE: Transformers by ZeroMayhem
Destructons: Transformers by ZeroMayhem
Here’s the full art from the Transformers Collector’s Club Magazine #60 cover.
http://www.transformersclub.com/_images/ish_60.jpg
As if a mere cover could contain the terrifying majesty of Lord Imperious Delirious, Destructon God Emperor!
Featured with their leader is of course Bruton, the cinereal behemoth, Medusa, the sinuous elegance, and Psychokhan, the thunderous ōdachi.
Tremendous line art by Naoto Tsushima
Colors by me! I had the privilege to create each of their color schemes (since they only appeared in black and white before) to accompany Naoto Tsushima’s design updates.
Transformers (C) Takara Tomy/Hasbro
Now up on the Shapeways store, daggers based on the Transformers: Power of the Primes Dinobot Slash concept art!
Continuing this new mini-series about the development of the original Transformers character designs!
Earl Norem passed away last week. He was the illustrator of a bunch of Transformers storybooks I read as a child. Of visual note, his Transformers, when drawn in car mode, had eyeballs in place of their headlights, and even though he’d paint on the robots’ faction insignias, for some reason stock clip-art of the sigil was stamped on top of it.
He was such a huge part of my childhood that when M Sipher asked me and Graham “Liquid Velcro!” Weaver to write an Axiom Nexus-based story as part of a pitch they were putting together for Fun Publications way back in 2009 or so, I threw in his version of Kup. Above is my first illustration for that never-published story, and you can see my attempt to replicate the stamp-on-top-of-painted-symbol deal on Kup’s chest.
(I guess now that I no longer do stuff for Fun Publications, I can probably put that story up somewhere.)
Earl Norem was the best. Double thumbs up.
No April Fools’ gags from us today! Instead, here’s a short history of Transformers April Fools!
- In “Snow Fun!” (Transformers UK #267, April 1990), the Dinobots introduced Grimlock to April Fools’ Day by tricking him into thinking Shockwave was calling him out for a one-on-one duel. He didn’t take it well! Art by Jeff Anderson!
- In 2008, Fun Publications allowed a three-page “preview” of that year’s BotCon comic to “leak”, introducing the world to “Shattered Glass”. It was supposed to be a parody of the idea, but was so well-liked that it led the actual comic to be partially re-written, and proved hugely influential on the general tone of nearly all future Shattered Glass stories. Art by siphersaysstuff and Trent Troop!
- In 2009, during season 3 of Animated, art director Derrick J. Wyatt released this picture of upcoming characters that would be in the show, plus six “fake” characters that wouldn’t. We’d list them for you, but it doesn’t matter any more - they were all made official in The Allpark Almanac II!
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So you’re young and queer and everything you know about sex has come from porn because nobody’s teaching it to you at school and frankly some of what you’ve witnessed is terrifying. You’re intrigued by sex and your hormones are raging and you want to have sex but you don’t want to get fisted while someone beats you with a cheese grater. You’re young and your baseline state of being is *uncomfortable* and *powerless* and you just want some semblance of control and something resembling comfort and you want to find people who don’t make you feel so weird all the time. You see queer people reveling in being weird, and you’re panicking that people think you’re like that because the last thing you want is to be seen as weird. You’re gay but you’re not gay-gay, you’re normal if you can just ignore this one small difference.
And then here comes a group of people who commiserate with you, but only on the surface. They, too, hate how weird Pride is, how weird queer culture is, how terrifying queer sexuality is, how awful kink is. They tell you that your discomfort is actually a form of harm, that nobody should ever make you think about the things you don’t want to think about, that you should be protected from it. They use the language of social justice and it feels like social justice to you. People are doing things to you! Without your consent! It’s psychic rape! How dare they?
But then you get older and you scratch beneath the surface and remove the masks and find that underneath, those people who told you that you were being harmed were intense homophobes, who found queer sexuality terrifying because they found queer people terrifying. They don’t “consent” to queers being sexy or kinky because they don’t “consent” to queers existing. They consider all sex bad, and queer people as inherently sexual, so queer people are inherently bad unless they go out of their way to desexualize themselves as much as possible. And you find that they’re transphobes and terfs and they consider trans identities to be fetishes and this is why they want to hide fetish. As soon as they’re done driving all the sexy, kinky, trans queers into hiding with your help, they can move onto the less outrageous queers. They’re moving onto you, even though you’d never call yourself queer because you’re young and uncomfortable and afraid of being weird. They’re uncomfortable and they learned that their discomfort was harm and they never sat down to examine those feelings. They’re the Karens of the world calling the cops on black folks for just existing in their vicinity. They think children should be completely sheltered from all that liberal nonsense.
And the queer elders try to speak up, try to tell the young ones about our history, but it’s so hard when we keep getting entire generations wiped out in the holocaust and the AIDS crisis. Our books burned and our people left for dead. Half of those left only survived through assimilation and internalizing that they needed to shed all of their queerness and become plastic Barbies and Kens, perfect and sexless, and this worked for them, in a way, in that they survived, so they think that this is a reasonable solution. Just cover up and get married and live quietly. Disown the loud queers, the ones still demanding more, the ones still pushing boundaries, the ones who don’t want to hide, who question the rules. They rewrite history to say gay rights were won when marriage was won and now the fight is over and anyone who is still complaining should shut up, lest our overlords hear and take away what little we were allowed to have.
The truth of the matter is that people are more naked at the beach than at Pride. Kink harnesses are normalized in fashion everywhere. Overt displays of heterosexual sexuality are everywhere. Children are not harmed by this. They will not be harmed by all of this in a queer context. No one will be harmed by this because discomfort is not harm and it was never about that. It was about hijacking discomfort for an anti-queer agenda. It’s being driven largely by sheltered teens and homophobes taking advantage of them. But the internet is a big stew where those people have the same platform and reach as queer historians and activists and hot takes spread faster than research and knowledge. We don’t have to engage. It’s settled. It’s done. Wear your gimp mask to Pride. The kids are alright.
