Geoff Senior

Geoff Senior self-portrait

Geoff Senior (born 1960) is an artist who worked on both the original Marvel UK and US Transformers comic books and was made secondary artist for Marvel Comics' Generation 2 comics, starting with issue #10, after Derek Yaniger failed to meet deadlines. His first strip work was in UK issue #42. At one point, he lived in Carlisle, England.

He studied at the Cumbria School of Art and Design but had no idea of what to do after. Luckily for us, one of his teachers introduced him to his neighbour Steve Parkhouse and that got him into comics.^[1]

He is like unto a living god.

Sadly, he has largely departed comics, and now works in the advertising field producing storyboards.

In July of 2007 he returned to Transformers with #1 of a new series, providing the art for a Transformers movie prelude. He expressed bemusement that because the CGI model sheets he was given only show the front, he had no idea what the back of the characters looked like and couldn't make out their faces.^[2] He would return every so often afterwards for convention comics, the odd page, and various covers. Long may this continue!

Illustrator

Comic art

Marvel UK

• Pencils for The Transformers 42-43, 83-84, 86, 98, 101, 113, 116, 120, 125 (continued in Action Force 24-27), 134, 138, 146-147, 233, 235, 239, 244, 247
• Pencils for The Transformers Annual 1986 story: "Victory!"
• Ink assists for The Transformers issue 151

Marvel USA

• Pencils for The Transformers issues 61, 62, 65, 66, 75
• Pencils for Transformers: Generation 2 issues 0, 10, 11, 12

Hasbro

• Beast Wars: Transformers video game advertising comic

3H Productions

• Terminus

Titan Magazines

IDW Publishing

• The Transformers: Regeneration One
  • Issue 0 (pg 2-6)
  • Issue 100 (pg 11-20)

• Transformers: Requiem of the Wreckers (pg 4-5, 17-18, 30-31)

Cover art pencils

Marvel UK

• The Transformers issues 49, 51, 59, 64, 72, 88, 97, 102, 104, 113, 117, 130, 209, 223, 224, 227, 229, 234, 235, 237, 239, 241, 244, 248, 260
• Transformers Annual 1991
• Transformers Collected Comics #5 and 6

Marvel USA

• The Transformers 75
• Transformers: Generation 2 0

3H Productions

• Terminus dinner variant

Panini

• Transformers: Armada issue #1, #3

Titans Books

• Transformers: All Fall Down BotCon 2001-exclusive cover
• Transformers: Target: 2006
• Transformers: Fallen Angel
• Transformers: Legacy of Unicron
• Transformers: City of Fear
• Transformers: Space Pirates
• Transformers: Time Wars

IDW Publishing

• The Transformers: Regeneration One all issues, cover RI

• The Transformers: Lost Light 21, 22, 23, 24 cover B

Gallery

References

1. ↑ The Transformers Classics UK Volume 2 page 21-22
2. ↑ Panel Borders (click "Download This Episode Now" link as others go to the wrong podcast)

External links

• Geoff Senior's homepage
• Geoff Senior online portfolio
• BBC story on Death's Head, mentions advertising work (archived link)
• Geoff Senior comes out of retirement to tour, draw things (archived link)

Interviews

• August 2007—TransFans.co.uk
• August 2011—Auto Assembly (with Simon Furman)
• August 2013—Auto Assembly (with Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman, Stephen Baskerville, John-Paul Bove, and Jason Cardy)
• August 2016—TFNation (with Simon Furman and James Roberts)