It can be impossible to find all the sketch and variant covers published for IDW's line of Transformers comics, so we're here to help the fans! In The Art of IDW's Transformers you'll find each and every limited edition or sketch cover IDW published for Beast Wars, Generations, Infiltration, Spotlights, Escalation, Stormbringer and Evolutions, collected together in one hardcover, oversized volume. The perfect addition to any Transformers collection, this volume also includes sketches from fan-favorite artists E.J. Su and Don Figueroa!
Book Description
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not everything,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Art Of IDW's Transformers (Hardcover)
THE GOOD: There's a large selection of very nice art, handsomely reproduced, on very good paper (matte, not glossy stock, alas). Some nice pullouts of work by Don Figueroa and my personal favorite, EJ Su.
Also a few great covers by others, including Ashley Wood, whose conceptual, abtsracted approach to mecha designs expands the range of possibilities regarding Transformers imagery. Some nice interviews with IDW's main Tf artists (the non-Japanese ones anyway). Looks nice on a shelf or coffee table. THE BAD: The product solicitation is wrong, this isn't every alternate cover or pinup by IDW as of mid-2007, it's not even half of it (ex: The excellent Graham Crackers Seekers alternate cover for Infiltration). Moreover many of the images are merely blown-up panels or page fragments from the interior IDW comics art, reprinted without reference or context, which would've helped if they wanted to promote their individual stories. Images are simply plopped unto the page with no accompanying information: appeared, the dates, the context, character names, the stories, etc. Didn't know what I was looking at half the time. I would've preferred having only cover and pinup/poster art, and perhaps character designs, rather than slivers of stories I have no intention of reading and/ or have seen elsewhere. Also, the cover you see here is not the actual book cover, much to my disappointment. The actual cover is a detail from Don Figueroa's Stormbringer super-cover, which is impressive but somewhat less iconic. Annoyingly, the white-bottomed dust jacket catches dirt easily due to the thin matte coating. VERDICT: Overall a good purchase for fans of the IDW universe and mecha art in general, but perhaps not crucial for the general 1980's fan who isn't into the IDW interpretations. Not very informative either. I'm a bit angry that the book profiled in the description is not the book this ultimately turned out to be. Still, a handsome purchase.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
what's with quality these days???,
By Video Game History "Gamer 4 life" (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Art of IDW's Transformers (Paperback)
not a bad book, just not complete! I would echo the other amazon reviews, so I won't waste your time....
but seriously, what's up with the quality of products these days? 5 stars for the effort, but the final product pales.... =(
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
no no no,
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Art of IDW's Transformers (Paperback)
It' s not a real art book the way I mean: only few pictures are "previously unreleased", most of them are covers or (especially) pages from various comic books from IDW. Only few pictures are displayed in different versions (pencils + inks + coloured final picture). The images themselves chosen for the books are not the best from all the available Transformers material....
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
