British artist (born 1960)
Geoff Senior (born 1960) is a British
artist, best known for his work in the
comic book field in the 1980s, mainly for
Marvel UK. Senior is perhaps best remembered for his art for the Marvel
Transformers series.
Biography
Senior illustrated the 1985 book
Space Assassin. He debuted on the British Transformers title drawing #42, and became one of the title's most prolific and popular artists (always inking his own pencils), thanks to his geometric style, which perfectly suited the dynamics of the series. He worked on a number of other titles for Marvel UK, including
Doctor Who Magazine (1988),
Dragon's Claws (which he co-created with
Simon Furman, and drew all ten issues of),
Death's Head (another character he helped create, initially as a guest star for Transformers) and
Action Force Weekly, as well as several Marvel UK annuals. He followed Furman across to Marvel USA in 1989, drawing Transformers US #61, and four more issues before the title's cancellation, including the classic #75. He drew several other titles in the early 1990s, including Hell's Angel (later renamed as Dark Angel) and several issues of What If...?, as well as returning to Transformers for the final few issues of Transformers Generation 2.
Since then, Senior has largely worked in advertising, though he has returned to Transformers on occasion, for the 1997 BotCon convention comic Reaching the Omega Point, two illustrations for the Transforce convention book Alignment, several covers for Titan Publishing's series of Transformers trade paperbacks, and the cover of issue 1 for
Panini's 2003 UK title Transformers Armada.
The Senior/Furman team returned for the first issue of Titan Comics' (UK) Transformers in August 2007, in which Senior produced the art for a new story based on the live-action movie characters and events (subsequently reprinted by IDW Publishing in the US).
From 2012 to 2014, Senior provided retailer-incentive variant covers for IDW's Transformers: Regeneration One comics, which continued the Marvel U.S. Transformers series, and was a contributing interior artist to Regeneration One #0.
In 2019 Senior and
Simon Furman started their own company, Forged by Fire Productions, for the purpose of publishing their own comic,
To the Death.
Bibliography
Comics include:
-
Doctor Who (
Marvel UK):
- "The Fabulous Idiot" (with
Steve Parkhouse in
Doctor Who Magazine Special Summer 1982)
- "The Crossroads of Time" (with
Simon Furman in Doctor Who Magazine #135)
- "Once in a Lifetime" (with
John Freeman, in The Incredible Hulk Presents #1, Marvel UK, 1989)
- "A Switch in Time!" (with John Freeman, in The Incredible Hulk Presents #6, Marvel UK, 1989)
- "Slimmer" (with
Mike Collins and Tim Robins, in The Incredible Hulk Presents #11, Marvel UK, 1989)
- The Spiral Path (with
Steve Parkhouse, in
Warrior #3, 1982)
-
Time Twisters: "Jogging" (with
Alan Grant, in 2000 AD #348, 1983)
-
Tharg's Future Shocks:
- "The Castaway" (with
Peter Milligan, in 2000 AD #390, 1984)
- "The Revenge of the Yallop Cringe" (with
Peter Milligan, in 2000 AD #438, 1985)
- "Mind How You Go" (with Oleh Stepaniuk, in 2000 AD #444, 1985)
- "Hotel Harry Felix" (with
Grant Morrison, in 2000 AD #463, 1986)
- "Video" (with
John Smith, in 2000 AD #478, 1986)
- "Wheels of Fury" (with
Grant Morrison, in 2000 AD #481, 1986)
- "Brief Encounter" (with
Alex Stewart, in 2000 AD #513, 1987)
-
Transformers UK #42-43, 83-84, 86, 98, 101, 113, 116, 120, 125, 134, 138, 146-147, 233, 235, 239, 244, 247, 1986 Annual (with
Simon Furman, Marvel UK, 1986–1990)
-
Zoids (with
Grant Morrison, Marvel UK):
- "Old Soldiers Never Die" (in Spider-Man and Zoids #19, 1986)
- "Deserts" (in Spider-Man and Zoids #30, 1986)
-
Action Force #24-27 (1987)
-
Dragon's Claws #1-10 (with
Simon Furman, Marvel UK, 1988–1989)
-
Death's Head #9 (with
Simon Furman, with some pencils by
John Higgins, Marvel UK, 1989)
-
Transformers #61-62, 65-66, 75 (with Simon Furman, Marvel Comics, 1989-1990)
-
Harlem Heroes: "Death Sport" (with
Michael Fleisher, in
2000 AD #745-749, 1991)
-
Judge Dredd:
- "The Sleeper" (with
John Wagner, in Judge Dredd Yearbook 1992, 1991)
- "Heatwave" (with
Simon Furman, in Judge Dredd: Lawman of the Future #1-2, 1995)
- "Block War" (with
Gordon Rennie, in Judge Dredd: Lawman of the Future #9-10, 1995)
- "Perp Running" (with
Gordon Rennie, in Judge Dredd: Lawman of the Future #10-11, 1995)
- "In Cold Blood" (with
Simon Furman, in Judge Dredd: Lawman of the Future #11-12, 1995)
- "Cybernetic Jungle" (with
Robbie Morrison, in Judge Dredd: Lawman of the Future #15-17, 1996)
- "Wish You Were Here" (with John O'Donoghue, in Judge Dredd: Lawman of the Future #17, 1996)
- "First Strike" (with
Gordon Rennie, in Judge Dredd: Lawman of the Future #18-20, 1996)
- "Invasion" (with
Gordon Rennie, in Judge Dredd: Lawman of the Future #21-23, 1995)
-
Hell's Angel #1-5 (with writer Bernie Jaye and sharing art duties with
Bryan Hitch, Marvel UK, 1992)
-
Warheads #3 (with
John Freeman, Marvel UK, 1992)
- Battletide (with
Dan Abnett/
Andy Lanning):
- Battletide (4-issue mini-series, Marvel UK, 1992)
- Battletide II (4-issue mini-series, Marvel UK, 1993)
-
Transformers: Generation 2 #0, 10-12 (with Simon Furman, Marvel Comics, 1993-1994)
-
War Machine #9-10 (pencils, with writer Len Kaminski and inks by Pam Eklund,
Marvel Comics, 1994)
-
Nova vol 2 #8-11 (with writer and co-penciller Chris Marrinan and some inking by Mark Stegbauer, Marvel Comics, 1994)
-
Transformers: Saga of the Allspark #1: "
Optimus Prime" (with
Simon Furman,
IDW Publishing, 2008)
- To the Death #1–10 (with Simon Furman, 2019)
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