Alex Milne is a Canadian
comic book
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artist, best known for his work on various ''
Transformers
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'' comic books.
Career
Graduating from
Sheridan College
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (formerly Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology) is a public polytechnic institute of technology located in the west- Greater Toronto Area in Ontario, Canada.
Founded i ...
, Milne debuted on the comics scene after being hired by
Dreamwave Productions
Dreamwave Productions was a Canadian art design studio and comic book publisher founded in 1996. Best known for its comic book adaptations of Transformers, the company shut down on January 4, 2005.
History
Brothers Pat Lee and Roger Lee founde ...
to pencil their ''
Transformers: Energon'' series. He would also work on ''
Transformers Armada: More Than Meets the Eye'', and the
box art
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for the Alternators
Jazz
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and
Grimlock
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during his time there. After the collapse of Dreamwave, Milne was hired by
UDON
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to work on
Devil's Due Publishing
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's
third ''G.I. Joe vs the Transformers'' comic. After its completion, Milne was hired by
IDW Publishing to pencil and ink the official adaptation of the
2007 Transformers movie, released in June, 2007, a month before the release of the movie.
Other major projects have included IDW's ''
The Transformers: Megatron Origin'' and ''
The Transformers: Spotlight'' issue on
Arcee as well as ''
Transformers: Timelines'' for
Fun Publications
Fun Publications was a publishing company that ran the Transformers Collectors Club and the G.I. Joe Collectors Club under license from Hasbro. Besides releasing comics, Fun Publications released exclusive toys and ran conventions for their clubs ...
and the
TFcon
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Toronto 2007 "Alternated Masterpiece" and 2009 "Universe Divided" lithographs. He also created the box art for the 2008 and 2009
BotCon exclusives as well as the 2009
Botcon Transformers 25th Anniversary Lithograph. Milne also drew the 2007
Botcon comic ''Games of Decepticon'', and drew the cover for the 2009 ''Wings of Honor'' comic. Milne was the principal artist on the ''Transformers Movie'' sequel comic: ''
Transformers: The Reign of Starscream''. He has worked on the ''
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'', ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Movie Prequel: Alliance'', covers for ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Movie Prequel: Defiance'', and the third issue of the comic adaptation for the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie adaptation.
Milne served as the primary artist alongside writer
James Roberts for
IDW Publishing's ''
The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye'' comic, which ran for 57 issues from January 2012 to September 2016.
Controversy
Comic Book Resources
''Comic Book Resources'', also known by the initialism CBR, is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic bookârelated news and discussion.
History
Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1995 as a development of the Kingdom Co ...
disclosed that much of the work credited to Dreamwave founder
Pat Lee was in fact drawn by Milne, who received only a fragment of Lee's payment for work on ''
Cyber Force''. When
Top Cow
Top Cow Productions is an American comics publisher, an imprint of Image Comics founded by Marc Silvestri in 1992.
History
During the early years of Image Comics, which was founded in 1992, co-founder Marc Silvestri shared a studio with Jim ...
discovered this, Lee stopped paying Milne entirely.
Milne later confirmed this in an interview.
References
External links
MarkerGuru- Alex Milne's
DeviantArt
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DeviantArt, ...
page
TransformersCon- 2007 guests (Archive)
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Sheridan College alumni
Living people
Canadian comics artists
Year of birth missing (living people)