Guido Guidi is an Italian
comic book artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...
and
penciller. He is best known for his work on
Transformers comics.
Dreamwave Productions
A longtime Transformers fan, Guidi was brought in by
Dreamwave Productions to be artist for their ''
Transformers: Armada'' comic, doing issues #8-13 and returning for #18 after a four issue run by
Don Figueroa. When the title changed to ''
Transformers: Energon'' he drew the first two issues (#19-20) and #22. He also contributed heavily to both the G1 and Armada ''More Than Meets the Eye'' series. He was scheduled to take over from Figueroa as artist on Dreamwave's G1 ongoing series,
but Dreamwave went out of business before his work could be published.
IDW Publishing
Along with other Dreamwave era artists like Figueroa and
James Raiz, Guidi was brought in by
IDW Publishing
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when they acquired the Transformers licence in 2005. After some alternative covers for their flagship G1 series ''
The Transformers: Infiltration'', he was the principal artist on ''
The Transformers: Evolutions'' tale ''Hearts of Steel''. His more recent work includes ''
The Transformers: Spotlight'' issues on
Galvatron and
Mirage
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, profile art for the ''
Beast Wars: Sourcebook'' series and the final issue of ''
Beast Wars: The Ascending'', as well as work on issue 5 of Titan UK's Transformers magazine. His most recent work has been as the principal artist on the ''All Hail Megatron'' maxi-series.
References
External links
Guido Guidi's Deviantart Page
Italian comics artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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