TFW2005 member Masabon has shared something extremely cool with us. An artbook, More than Just a Geek Spark, was available at Japanese comic festival, Comic Market 89.
The artbook is a celebration of many eras of Transformers, and features art by a lot of notable artists, including Transformers comics and cartoons alumni Hayato Sakamoto (More than Meets the Eye), Akira Amemiya (Q Transformers), Alex Milne (More than Meets the Eye), Josh Perez (Megatron: Origins, Reign of Starscream, Dreamwave Transformers Energon), Matt Youngberg (Transformers Animated), and Derrick J Wyatt (Transformers Animated). That is not all, though, as the artbook also features the work of Hiroyuki Imaishi, Atsushi Nishigori, Yo Yoshinari, and Masaru Sakamoto (all of whom worked on Gurren Lagann for studio Gainax), Yuji Kaneko (Puella Magi Madoka Magica), Yuto Kaneto (Kill La Kill), Shigeto Koyama (Heroman), and Grant Alexander (Pixar).
It is a truly impressive looking artbook judging just by these few images that have been shared with us. Check them out after the break, and give thanks to Masabon for sharing them with us!
Black Convoy
Nightrain
I didn’t know about this.
Fallout
are we really complaining cuz someone posted high quality scans of an obscure book of awesome fanart? because that's how we stop getting cool artists to do shit like this.
Cardion
Klaatu Barada N… necktie… nectar… nickel… noodle. It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word! Klaatu… Barada… N…(cough, cough, cough)
On a related note, when can we get a collab using the Army of Darkness car?
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SG Roadbuster
Did somebody read the Necronomicon out loud? Cuz there's been an awful lot of Zombie threads lately.
Lucas35
This link has high-quality scans:
More Than Just A Geek Spark
General Tekno
If you can get it for a good price, go for it; it's still a whole ton of original art in there by some great artists (it's nuts how many Gainax people contributed). The Mandarake prices for it were pretty reasonable; a few people I know got it as well.
Lumpy
Hmmm, so nothing really that hasn't been seen. It looks cool and all, but I don't think I want to spend that much on something that looks like it's just a quick magazine.
General Tekno
Pretty neat. All the artwork's already been mirrored here but it's still a solid book all the same.
Lumpy
Did anyone end up getting this? How is it?
stprime
So is it a book or a high quality magazine?
GizmoTron
Seems to be the going rate, a little pricey but I doubt this book will ever see print again so it's worth it.
stprime
Got my shipping notice.
stprime
Already recieved the request and paid. 3000 book, 500 handling, and 1000 shipping so roughly $38.
General Tekno
Yep; that's basically how they work. Took a day or two for me to get a payment request on mine.
Pravus Prime
Wow, that's a lot of great art. Thanks Masabon!
stprime
Ok, I ordered, I think….
"Thank you for making the requests.
order number is 1639444.
Invoice with the payment link including shipping fee will be sent within 3 days for available item(s)"
General Tekno
WAY cheaper on Mandarake, if there's still stores that have it.
robotmel
Blimey!
Anyone got a spare $100?
Transformers Doujinshi More Than Just A Geek Spark Full Color Art Book 48PAGES | eBay
Acteon
A lot more than 2000JPY – dammit, I'm in Japan a month a year, why didn't I think of Mandarake? *bangs head on desk*
Doh.