Andrew Wildman

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Andrew Wildman (sometimes credited as Andy Wildman) is a British artist, best known for his work in comics, mainly for Marvel Comics. Wildman cut his teeth on Marvel UK's titles in the late 1980s, including Galaxy Rangers, Thundercats, The Real Ghostbusters and, perhaps most notably, Transformers. His first strip work on Transformers came in #198 for the story Cold Comfort and Joy. He would rapidly ascend to being one of the key members of the title's art team, often working with inker Stephen Baskerville.

Wildman and Baskerville would follow writer Simon Furman to the American Transformers title soon afterwards, and would draw issues #69-74 and #76-80 - the final issues. His artwork, which often applied human characteristics to the robotic protagonists, was divisive amongst some fans, but generally lauded for capturing the emotion of Furman's scripts. After the title was cancelled, he continued to work for Marvel on various series, including X-Men Adventures (adaptations of the storylines from the popular 1990s cartoon series) and G.I. Joe. He would only briefly work on Transformers: Generation 2, drawing three pages of Transformers: Generation 2 #2 as a favour to Furman and editor Rob Tokar when the original artist, Derek Yaniger, fell behind. Further work for Marvel US included Spider-man: The Archnis Project, a six issue mini series featuring Venom, Venom: Carnage Unleashed, writen by GIJoe scribe, Larry Hama and a four issue Black Catseries. This work was followed by a significant run on the Marvel title Spider-man 2099

He returned to the Transformers franchise in 2002, drawing numerous covers for Titan's series of TPB reprints. This was followed by Wildman working for Dreamwave Productions in 2003 to draw Transformers - The War Within: The Dark Ages, a six-part mini-series written by Furman and cover artist for subsequent licence holders IDW. He also contributed art to Panini's Transformers Armada UK series, for issues #3 to #9. His work for issue #10 went unpublished when the title was cancelled. In 2007, he returned to the world of GI Joe and the Transformers as he provided the artwork for Devil's Due Publishing's GI Joe/Transformers IV miniseries.

Wildman has continued his partnership with Furman. The pair regularly appear at Transformers conventions together including the UK event Auto Assembly and created an online Macromedia Flash comic called The Engine: Industrial Strength with UK New Media expert Adam Jennings.
Further projects include concept work for computer games development company NiK NaK as well as the children's 'Paranormal Western' comic book adventure, Frontier with cult writer, Jason Cobley

In 2005 after undertaking the Landmark Education 'Curriculum for Living' Wildman created the charity project Draw the World Together. The project continues to go from strength to strength in partnership with computer games company NCsoft as it raises funds to benefit street children around the world and create healthcare and education possibilities.