Simon Furman

Simon Christopher Francis Furman (more usually known as Simon Furman, or occasionally as Chris Francis) is a British comics writer particularly well known for his lengthy association with the Transformers franchise, beginning with the long running Marvel UK series (though he has since also written stories about the heroic Autobots and their Decepticon foes for Marvel Comics, Dreamwave and IDW in the US, and for Titan Magazines in the UK). He broke into the industry with a story in the third issue of IPC's Scream! in 1984, and aside from his work for Marvel UK (which includes work on ThunderCats, Action Force, Dragon's Claws, Doctor Who Magazine and the creation of the mechanoid bounty hunter Death's Head) and Marvel US, he has also written Judge Dredd stories for both 2000 AD and the American DC Comics Dredd series, and contributed to Titan's Torchwood Magazine and Panini's Marvel Heroes Vol 1.