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Andrew Turnbull
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Cartoonist, Head of Creative for TFNation, Europe's largest & most inclusive Transformers convention.
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Artists! Quote with your horn art!
The Liege Maximo a character from Transformers Generation 2. Purported to be the first Decepticon. A green giant creature whose left arm is a massive gun, which he his holding as if it was a massive veiny cock and its glowing yellow as it's about to go off. His eyes are glowing red.
January 18, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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A terrible rabbit hole has been fallen down and money has been spent...
A photo of 2 Dapol Doctor Who figures sealed on card - a 7th Doctor with a grey coat and red umbrella and Davros. This is one with only one hand, not the variant with 2 hands that was produced.
January 11, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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A wee snippet from the page drawn the other night, good old Jugger Morph and human chum deep in conversation.
A panel of comic art - library only on the left of the panel is a small human in a puffy winter jacket, they are gesticulating with their arms standing atop the legs of the giant robot Jugger Morph, who is looking down towards them staring intently
January 9, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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any excuse to go to bat for Scott's best outfit bar none...
a photo of X-factor 67 drawn by Whilce Portacio and Art Thibert. It has Cyclops in his blue and yellow outfit, one fist clenched and his other arm raised, following behind him charging into battle are The Beast, Karnak, Gorgon, Iceman, Black Bolt, Archangel and Jean Grey
January 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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So you are repainting Lio Convoy in G2 Cybertronian colours. I will get my wallet, you pack of bastards.
Takara promotional pic with the English text New Product Series Start and beneath that Transformers New Legends. The toy pictured is Lio Convoy bit in a fetching green, pale blue and off white combo.
January 6, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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Ask and ye shall receive...
My hand holding up a copy of Marvel UK's James Bond Jr issue 7 priced 65 pence and cover dated for 27 December 1993. The image has James in a Santa costume holding a sack of presents.
January 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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First Transformers related acquisition of 2026.
A photo of my hand, the left if detail is important to you. Holding a VHS tape, specifically the toy exclusive promo of Beast Wars Season 3 episode one Optimal Situation with Optimal Optimus on the cover. Behind said tape is a very messy desk, again I know some people like details. The episode was billed as Never seen before on TV. They are cross selling and staying volumes 1 and 2 are available to buy. The VHS was free when you spent £9.00 on any Beast Wars toy.
January 2, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go

Well if we are talking UK mine's is the Bambi reissue. US it's Police Academy 3- Back in Training (which i saw in the cinema a little later that year).

Not sure what either means for my year...
image of Walt Disney's Bambi with Bambi on a white background. Film poster for Police Academy 3 - Back In Training
December 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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This arrived today, thanks @pauljonmilne.bsky.social it's a big beefy slab of comics. Going to enjoy reading this later
A photo of my hand holding up the cover of Suture by Paul Jon Milne. A massive slab of comic goodness
December 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Suki has the right idea on how to deal with today.
My teacup chihuahua Suki curled up in her bed, with her back to me.
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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You will be visited by three spirits
a comic panel from Marvel UK Transformers issue 153 showing the three Deception Firecons, Sparkstalker, Cindersaur and Flamefeather in monster mode running towards the reader. Drawn by Jeff Anderson and Stephen Baskerville.
December 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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I'm going to have to break this out again - there's nothing left to settle.
Some foul language ahead. A rough sketchy version of the scene from Transformers the Movie where Frenzy and Rumble are smashing the windows of the autobot communications tower. It's a worms eye view looking up from beneath the glass roof. On the left, the red and black one is shouting "HA HA HA! We're smashing your windae's in!". There is a caption that says "rumble", to the right of him is the blue and purple one he is shoutinf "Ya pack o' fannies!" there is a caption beside him which says "Other Rumble." Beneath him is another caption which says "Don't come the cunt now.".
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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No Black Friday sales pitch, if you want to read 2 lost (until last Saturday) issues of Transformers Energon free now you can. Issue 31 is complete, 32 lettered from the scans of the pencil art from @markerguru.bsky.social

drive.google.com/file/d/1TUyZ...
drive.google.com/file/d/1V974...
Image showing the Transformers Energon Logo and beneath it text saying "Scan the QR code to get the PDF" and beneath that are two separate QR codes labelled Issue 31 and 32.
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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My bit of art to accompany The Secrets of Cybertron presented by @davidw140.bsky.social at last weekend's @tfnationltd.bsky.social Reading Mini-Con. I was originally going to use Don's Primus design from the War Within, but as I started realised it wasn't Sunbow enough so went my own way.
A scene set in space showing the world of Cybertron, home planet of the Transformers transformed into a robot form - Primus, patterened on the Rodimus Prime toy, instead of a chest flames there is a matrix of leadership marking. The outer shell of the planet forming giant wings, his left, is tattered and damaged at the bottom, just as the planet is in the cartoon. He wields a massive giant blade, the pommel is Vector Sigma, the crossguard and opened matrix case one half on each side and the base of the sword is the key to vector sigma. The blade is glowing, because I wanted it to. He is holding the blade in his both hands, close to his body and pointing upwards towards the demonic robot Unicron who is running towards him.
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Took great delight in picking this up from @nickroche.bsky.social at @tfnationltd.bsky.social Minicon Reading and giving it immediately to Toy-Fu's own Ralph as an early Christmas present, much to the amusement of everyone other than him. IYKYK
A drawing of the best Autobot Pretender Longtooth with a jaunty Christmas hat on.
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Train to Edinburgh, the second last leg of the journey home after an excellent Mini-Con, time to enjoy one of the classics
A Microsoft surface duo, the best phone of the last decade, ruined by Microsoft playing Transformers the Movie on a table pulled down from the back of a train seat
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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I have done my duty. Honour is satisfied @wordmonger.bsky.social @edpirrie.bsky.social @katcardy.bsky.social
A photo of my hand holding a copy of the UK Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles comic second issue.
November 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I had to clean up the image, so pulled it into Illustrator and just built up the shapes in various layers before back into photoshop for mucking around and back into InDesign to finish it off. And I clearly missed a trick which I fixed and labelled this Modem Classics.
A cover aping the Penguin Modern Classics layout. The credits read Bob Budiansky, Don Perlin, Ian Akin & Brian Garvey, Janice Chiang and Nel Yomtov, who produced the issue and the title Afterdeath is at the top of the white masthead. The image beneath is aof a circuit board, dark green background, with light green traces. Overlayed on this is the bust of Optimus Prime drawn in his Marvel comics style as that's where the story is from. However, there are no lines just coloured transparences as we have the red of his chest, the dark blue of his helmet, and the lighter blue of his faceplate. These are all opaque and we can see the circuit pattern clearly. The head is angled looking from right to left but looking downward and within the head, we can see the shape of the skull beneath.
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Just had the idea in my head and had to get it down and out. It's a bit messy in places, but i do like the effect and yes, Optimus Prime sacrificing his life for computer games characters is absolutely on brand and makes perfect sense. An absolute classic story. #transformers #maccadam
A cover aping the Penguin Modern Classics layout. Bob Budiansky and Afterdeath is at the top of the white masthead. The image beneath is aof a circuit board, dark green background, with light green traces. Overlayed on this is the bust of Optimus Prime drawn in his Marvel comics style as that's where the story is from. However, there are no lines just coloured transparences as we have the red of his chest, the dark blue of his helmet, and the lighter blue of his faceplate. These are all opaque and we can see the circuit pattern clearly. The head is angled looking from right to left but looking downward and within the head, we can see the shape of the skull beneath.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Steel yourself...
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Probably the best stab at Sunbow Optimus I think I have ever managed. Not bad for half assing around on the remarkable while listening to Crystal Lake Memories
Sunbow Style Optimus Prime bust.
November 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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the first X-Man, Cyclops in his best duds.
Scott Summers aka Cyclops of the X-Men and X-Factor in his snazzy Whilce Portacio designed X-Factor duds
November 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Springer, one of my favourite Autobots and I don't care what anyone says I like the toy. Remarkable tablet once again
A digital sketch of the Autobot Springer, based on his toy incarnation. He looks stern.
November 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Void from Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.S. another remarkable sketch (the tablet, not the quality)
A digital sketch of Void from Jim Lee's WildC.A.T.S. she is looking off to the side with a halo of energy around her
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Last remarkable sketch of the night.
Digital pencil sketch, the Transformer, Hot Rod. A toy based interpretation and he is saying THIS IS THE END OF THE ROAD GALVATRON.
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM