Simon Furman is a writer for comic books and TV animation, his name inextricably linked to Transformers, the 80s toy phenomenon. He has written literally hundreds of stories about the war-torn "robots in disguise," for Marvel Comics (US and UK), Dreamwave, and IDW Publishing. His titles for the latter include Transformers: Infiltration , Escalation , Devastation & Revelation ; Maximum Dinobots ; Beast Wars: The Gathering & The Ascending ; Transformers: Stormbringer , Transformers: Nefarious and Transformers: Spotlight . His other comic book credits include Doctor Who , Death's Head , Death's Head 3.0 , Alpha Flight , Turok , She-Hulk , Robocop , What If? , StarCraft , Wallace & Gromit , and Torchwood . In the TV animation field, Furman has written on shows including Beast Wars , Dan Dare , X-Men: Evolution , and A.T.O.

M. , and served as lead writer and script supervisor on The Matt Hatter Chronicles . Editorially, Furman worked on Titan Books' range of Transformers titles and their "Comics Creators" series. He is also the author of numerous books, including Rad Robots , Transformers: The Ultimate Guide , You Can Draw Transformers and a Doctor Who audio adventure ("The Axis of Insanity").