Bob Budiansky

Bob Budiansky

Budiansky at the 2015 East Coast Comicon in Secaucus, New Jersey
Born March 15, 1954 (1954-03-15) (age 62)[1][2]
The Bronx, New York[2][3]
Nationality American
Area(s) Writer, Penciller, Editor
Notable works
 The Transformers
Sleepwalker

Bob Budiansky (born March 15,[1] 1954[2]) is an American comic book writer, editor, and penciller, 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.

Early life

Budiansky was born in The Bronx, New York, where he attended public school, then went on to the State University of New York at Buffalo.[3] He was "reintroduced" to comics while in college during the early 1970s.[4] His first published work was Superrunt — a comic strip collaboration with Charles "Sparky" Alzamora, published in the University at Buffalo newspaper The Spectrum while he was a student there.

Career

Budiansky worked at Marvel Comics for approximately 20 years.[5] He is responsible for much of the writing of the original Marvel Transformer comic, and conceived the names of most of the original Transformers, including Decepticon leader Megatron, Autobot medic Ratchet, and Decepticon Ravage. He also wrote the vast majority of the descriptive "tech spec" biographies printed on the Transformers toy packages that Hasbro produced in the 1980s, giving each figure unique personality quirks.[6]

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

Budiansky is also a penciller. He drew the final years of the Johnny Blaze/Zarathos version of Ghost Rider, including drawing the majority of Ghost Rider covers from 1978 to 1983.

From 1983 till 1996, Budiansky was on staff at Marvel as an editor. During this period, Budiansky oversaw such titles as Fantastic Four and Daredevil[7] and the Spider-Man Clone Saga.

Honors

At BotCon 2010, Hasbro named Budiansky as one of the first four human inductees in the Transformers Hall of Fame for his contributions in creating the franchise.[8]

Personal life

Budiansky married Angela Goldman in August 1991.[9] Budiansky has two children: Emma (21) and David (7).

Partial bibliography

As artist

As writer

As inker

As colorist

As letterer

Notes

  1. 1 2 Miller, John Jackson (June 10, 2005). "Comics Industry Birthdays". Comics Buyer's Guide. Archived from the original on October 29, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 "Bob Budiansky". Comic Book DB.
  3. 1 2 Best, Daniel (September 24, 2007). "Looking Back With Bob Budiansky".
  4. ↑ Karpowich, Matthew; Sorohan, Andrew (July 26, 2004). "A Little Q&A With... Bob Budiansky". AlteredStatesMag.com.
  5. ↑ "Transcript of Bob Budiansky/Don Figueroa pannel at Iacon One". July 8, 2006.
  6. ↑ ROBOTECH.COM - The Official Robotech Web Site!, www.robotech.com
  7. ↑ Shooter, Jim. "Bullpen Bulletins," Marvel comics cover-dated November 1983.
  8. ↑ "Transformers Hall of Fame Humans". Hasbro.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2010.
  9. ↑ "Bullpen Bulletins", Marvel Comics. March 1992.

References

External links

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Preceded by
Tom DeFalco		 Marvel Comics Group Editor-in-Chiefs, Spider-Man titles;

Mark Gruenwald, Universe titles; Bob Harras, mutant titles; Bob Budiansky, Spider-Man titles; Bobbie Chase, Marvel Edge titles; Carl Potts, licensed-property titles
1994–1995

Succeeded by
Bob Harras
Preceded by
David Michelinie		 Avengers writer
1981
(with Danny Fingeroth) 		Succeeded by
Jim Shooter
Preceded by
Don Perlin		 Ghost Rider penciler
1981–1983 		Succeeded by
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