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James Raiz is a Canadian comic book artist. Originally a background artist for Dreamwave, he moved on to full illustration duties when they acquired the Transformers license. Before and since Dreamwave folded, he has also provided Hasbro with packaging art, and currently does covers for IDW's Transformers books. His other work includes DC Comics' Birds of Prey and Wonder Woman, and Marvel Comics' Hulk. He also works in the special effects industry as a visual effects artist and matte painter.

Raiz would have done more work for Dreamwave but he gave up Armada for a planned Optimus Prime miniseries, which didn't happen, and was then put on the G1 ongoing, which was delayed by War and Peace. Unable to wait that long for another gig, he left Dreamwave to work for DC's Wildstorm imprint. He came back in 2004 to be offered the next Transformers: The War Within but by then it was too obvious that Dreamwave was strapped for cash, so he turned them down (and a very smart decision that was).[1]

Contents

Comic book art

Dreamwave Productions

IDW Publishing

3H Productions

Hasbro

Devil's Due Press

Gallery

  • Armada minicomic 1.jpg
  • DWArmada2 Megatronlaughing.jpg
  • Shockwave V Dynos.jpg
  • Thegathering2d.jpg

References

  1. ↑ "Blame Optimus Prime. Let me explain… Myself, Adam Fortier, Pat, Roger and Chris Sarracini went to Midtown comics in New York for a signing. There we talked about getting Armada back on schedule. We decided it was best to have Pat do a couple of fill-ins and I would jump straight into issue 8. But Chris and I talked about the possibilities of an Optimus Prime mini-series. He came up with an amazing idea that would have let me go design crazy!! So we came to Adam and Pat and told them that we wanted to do this series instead. So they decided to give Armada to Guido, and Chris and I started preparing for our Prime series. A week or so later, they talked to us and instead of a Prime series, they wanted us to do more of a G2 mini instead. Not that we had anything against G2, but Chris and I were really stoked about Prime. Then they threw us the ultimate curve ball – they offered us the G1 ongoing series. We were like – sure! But then things didn’t fall our way. Pat Lee was supposed to draw Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but for some reason that fell through. So they decided to do a G1 Volume 2 with Pat, and pushed the Ongoing until the next year. They told me that they would keep me busy with stuff until then. A few days later, I was then told that I would no longer be drawing the first arc but rather the second – starting from issue 6. So at that time, I wouldn’t be drawing Transformers for another year! I couldn’t do that. I was getting married, and I needed money. So I emailed my friend Warren Ellis, and he got me a gig at Wildstorm/DC comics doing Tokyo Storm Warning, and I left Dreamwave. I came back for a little bit in 2004, and they wanted me to do the next War Within with Simon Furman, which would have been a blast. But at the time, the company’s financial difficulties were so apparent, I couldn’t risk committing myself to a project that long. Turned out to be a great move on my part – I’m one of the very few who came out of Dreamwave with all my money."—James Raiz, TransFans, 2005 (archive link)

External links

Interviews

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