Transfans interviews Don Figueroa!

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:58 pm

Here it is...

Let us know what you think...

Many thanks to Don, and the members of Transfans staff who've been working furiously behind the scenes to bring you this... (Special credit to the REAL Professor Smooth)

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:11 pm

Sweeeet

Don just seems like the nicest guy ever.

I was also assured everything was cool when I saw Pat in Oklahoma a month prior to the closing. We even talked about really exciting stuff planned for the next year and beyond, I guess this is one of those "too good to be true" moments because less than a month later, poof! everything's gone... and I had to hear the bad news from Espen. Nobody bothered to tell me to stop working, if I had known, I probably wouldn't have sent in the Beast Wars pages, and now some of them are gone, probably looted from the office.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:39 pm

hes very diplomatic isnt he?

I love how he explains he wanted to work on his own style then copying Pats big boobs optimus style

Post by **Kaylee** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:27 pm

Very intriguing, and it looks like most of our ideas about how DW ran were completely accurate.

Darth Aux · Post by **Darth Aux** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:59 pm

Thankyou Don, you the man!

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:46 pm

Great insight brought to light by great and well worded questions.

I wish DDP could hurry up and snatch the franchise and start making comics again already!

A multitude of thanks and gratitude to Prof. Smooth and Best First.

And I thought for sure it was going to be cupcakes.

veritech · Post by **veritech** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:04 pm

How was Wildman's art modified "to the point of butchery" in WW2: The Dark Ages? This is news to me, although his art in WW2 didn't look anything like his original style . . . I guess I just thought that maybe he had changed styles, you know?

How was it modified?

Dead Head · Post by **Dead Head** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:21 pm

Nice interview (good questions).

Don Figueroa wrote:TF wise, I think they did a pretty good job.

I disagree with him here. Dreamwave did a poor job, most glaringly in the flagship Transformers title. The story is key, and they produced poor stories, no matter the quality of the accompanying artwork.

Post by **Denyer** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:15 am

spiderfrommars wrote:Special credit to the REAL Professor Smooth

Is there a fake Kev?

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:20 am

He says Pat Lee is probably the richest person he knows, I find that disturbing as several of employees remain unpaid. What a ****

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:06 am

Hound wrote:He says Pat Lee is probably the richest person he knows, I find that disturbing as several of employees remain unpaid. What a ****

Not to mention his own parents.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:53 am

hes clearly being sarcastic here - ie suggesting that Pat made a few bucks off of this all, whilst some ppl go unpaid meaing pat = kent

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:04 am

Denyer wrote:
spiderfrommars wrote:Special credit to the REAL Professor Smooth
Is there a fake Kev?

There was for awhile.

jboyler · Post by **jboyler** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:20 am

I always tend to draw my humans in a more western style, so when I did that Armada Free comic book, they told me that my humans needed to be more "anime" so they altered the faces to conform with the house style.

I went back and looked at some of my G1 and Energon comics today. The robot art is mostly good, but most of the human faces stand out as being just glaringly awful.

But if they think snagging a glance from 8-year old Pokemon fans is worth it...

Blacksword · Post by **Blacksword** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:25 am

veritech wrote:How was Wildman's art modified "to the point of butchery" in WW2: The Dark Ages? This is news to me, although his art in WW2 didn't look anything like his original style . . . I guess I just thought that maybe he had changed styles, you know?

How was it modified?

The issue here is that Wildman's art depends heavily on appropraite inking and colouring. Think back to his first issue on the US Marvel TF book and compare it to all the rest of his stuff on the title thereafter. Changing inkers made a huge difference. DW's computer colouring with no inking made Andy's stuff look like ****. Plus (though I'd have to look up the pencils again) it is reasonable to assume the pencils were altered a bit to fit the house style - especially given what Don said in the interview.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:53 am

I noticed that Andy was actually inked by Rob Armstrong-- who traditionally inked Pat Lee's pencils-- rather than Elaine To, who inked Figueroa's pencils. I think she oculd have done a better job.

Seems good. I like how he says, as many others do, that Simon Furman is such a nice guy. If only there could be a monthly Devil's Due G1 comic written by Furman and drawn by Figueroa.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:53 am

Shanti418 wrote: A multitude of thanks and gratitude to Prof. Smooth and Best First.

can't take much credit on this one, it was all Smooth.

Transfans rocks.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:09 am

You noticed how Rob Ruffolo tried to enforce Pat's style on Don? Seems he was Pats right hand man, kinda understanable now how he got the Micro title...

Post by **Best First** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:08 am

nothing will mak eme understand ho whe got that title

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:04 pm

Best First wrote:nothing will mak eme understand ho whe got that title

speaking of understanding...

Post by **Best First** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:53 pm

its such a simple code to crack!

just replace teh words with ones that are spelt correctly.

Snowcat · Post by **Snowcat** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:48 pm

Great guy, let`s hope DDP get the licence, and he can do what he does best: draw kick ass Transformers.