Bob Budiansky

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name = Bob Budiansky


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Bob Budiansky is an American comic book writer, best known for his work on Marvel's "Transformers" comic. He also created the Marvel character "Sleepwalker" and wrote all 33 issues of that comic.

Biography

Budiansky's first published work was "Superrunt" — a comic strip collaboration with Charles "Sparky" Alzamora. This was published in the University of Buffalo newspaper " [http://spectrum.buffalo.edu/ The Spectrum] " while he was a student there.

Budiansky is considered the "father" of Transformers lore, being part of the birth of the line of both toys and comics, responsible for much of writing of the original Marvel "Transformer" comic. Budiansky went on to become a legend among Transformers fans, having conceived the names of most of the original, most iconic Transformers, including Decepticon leader Megatron, Autobot medic Ratchet, and Decepticon Ravage.Fact|date=October 2007 He also wrote the vast majority of the descriptive "tech spec" biographies printed on each Transformers toy package, giving each figure unique personality quirks.

Budiansky is also an accomplished penciller as well, his art defining the final years of the Johnny Blaze/Zarathos interpretation of the Ghost Rider.

After a long hiatus from the Transformers mythos, Budiansky scripted a new adaptation of the original 1986 "" for IDW Publishing in honor of the film's 20th anniversary.

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

*"Sleepwalker" #1-33 (with artists Bret Blevins, Rick Leonardi, Joe Quesada and Kelly Krantz, Marvel Comics, 1991-1994)

References

*comicbookdb|type=creator|id=1305|title=Bob Budiansky

External links

* [http://www.comicbook-art.com Official Representative for commissions]
* [http://transfans.net/interviews_budiansky.php Interview at Transfans.net]
* [http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2007/09/looking-back-with-bob-budiansky.html 2007 retrospective interview]

succession box | title=Marvel Comics Group Editor-in-Chiefs, Spider-Man titles;
Mark Gruenwald, Avengers titles;
Bob Harras, mutant titles;
Bob Budiansky, Spider-Man titles;
Bobbie Chase, Marvel Edge titles;
Carl Potts, licensed-property titles| before=Tom DeFalco| after=Bob Harras
years=1994–1995
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