September 11, 2005 – a plucky Irish newcomer named Nick Roche sent me this image 12 years ago today to see if he could ever find work as a Transformers artist. I felt like it showed promise and we used it as a cover.
A dozen years later, Nicky’s logged well over a decade of TF work, as well as Doctor Who, Monsters Motors, plenty of covers for other things, written his own Transformers series, and is currently drawing three issues of Spider-Man. And has remained the same floppy-haired, eager, and ultra-talented sort he was in 2005. Only moreso.
A Force Sensitive Phasesixer 