Andrew Griffith

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Well now, take down your fishing pole
And meet me at the fishing hole

Andrew Griffith (born September 23, 1976) is an American comic book artist at IDW Publishing. He is one of the fans whose work was brought to the attention of IDW through their comic cover contest.

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"Flames of Yesterday" (lineart)

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Notes

A Spotlight: Cosmos was announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2008 for release in 2009, with art by Andrew Griffith, to be written by Chris Mowry.^[1]^[2]^[3] Later, though, Mowry announced on a (now defunct) IDW forum thread that the project was likely postponed or cancelled altogether, citing demotivation as a result of fan backlash towards IDW's output at the time.^[4] Now, the cover art is the only piece of this we've officially seen... but in May 2009, the unofficial Transformers: Mosaic strip "I Am..." was released, created by Mowry and Griffith. How exactly this was related is unknown.^[5]

References

↑ "If you're a comics or Transformers fan (or both) you may have seen this shown at Comic-Con. Well, I've finally decided to post it here. Just think of it as a preview..."—Andrew Griffith, deviantART, 2008/09/06
↑ "After a not so revealing IDW panel today at SDCC, there were only a few new tidbits of upcoming releases by IDW. They confirmed that a Spotlight Cosmos is in the works, and they talked about the upcoming Spotlight Blurr a little."—Skalor, Seibertron, "IDW News From SDCC (Spotlight Cosmos!)", 2008/07/25
↑ "Spotlight: Cosmos Chris Mowry and Andrew Griffith art. Some time in 2009. Tie in with Acsention / All Hail timelines"—BaCon, TFormers, "SDCC 2008 Day 2 - IDW Transformers & GI Joe Panel", 2008/07/25
↑ "If it's done, it will be made to fit into the "universe" as neatly as possible. But in all honesty, the reaction to things as of late with G1-related stories really has me not interested in doing this at all. There seems to be a "bash it before you see it" epidemic as of late, so I really have to ask myself "why bother?" I've said it before, I'm a lucky guy who has been given some incredible opportunities. But this isn't my main job, I don't NEED to do this. Recent events have really made me take a closer look at this. We all have a right to express our opinions, but the blatant disrespect and rudeness that people have—and continue to show—towards creators or the fans that speak up for them, is really discouraging. We'll see, though. I've got a few other things to finish up first, and Andrew and I do have a rough outline of where we want this to go. If it's going to happen, you'll hear it here first. But in our minds, Cosmos is absolutely clunky. We're not going to make him a secret agent or anything. On second thought...."—Chris Mowry, the IDW forums (dead link)
↑ Transformers: Mosaic, deviantART, "I Am...", 2009/05/27

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Interviews

March 2011—The Underbase
July 2011—The Underbase (with James Roberts)
2012—transformers2015
May 2013—The Underbase (with John Barber)
September 2013—Auto Assembly (with James Roberts, Alex Milne, and Nick Roche)
October 2013—Newsarama (with Mairghread Scott and Livio Ramondelli)
June 2014—BotCon (with John Barber, James Roberts, Mairghread Scott, Saren Stone, and Livio Ramondelli)
August 2014—Moonbase 2
August 2015—Auto Assembly (with Andrew Hall and Kei Zama)
September 2016—Moonbase 2
October 2017—TransMissions (with James Roberts, Casey Coller, and Josh Burcham)
October 2019—New York Comic Con (with Jim Sorenson, Michael Kelly, and Livio Ramondelli)
August 2020—TransMissions (with John Barber)
July 2021—Ia-Con (with Shane McCarthy and Livio Ramondelli)

[0] "If you're a comics or Transformers fan (or both) you may have seen this shown at Comic-Con. Well, I've finally decided to post it here. Just think of it as a preview..."—Andrew Griffith, deviantART, 2008/09/06

[1] "After a not so revealing IDW panel today at SDCC, there were only a few new tidbits of upcoming releases by IDW. They confirmed that a Spotlight Cosmos is in the works, and they talked about the upcoming Spotlight Blurr a little."—Skalor, Seibertron, "IDW News From SDCC (Spotlight Cosmos!)", 2008/07/25

[2] "Spotlight: Cosmos Chris Mowry and Andrew Griffith art. Some time in 2009. Tie in with Acsention / All Hail timelines"—BaCon, TFormers, "SDCC 2008 Day 2 - IDW Transformers & GI Joe Panel", 2008/07/25

[3] "If it's done, it will be made to fit into the "universe" as neatly as possible. But in all honesty, the reaction to things as of late with G1-related stories really has me not interested in doing this at all. There seems to be a "bash it before you see it" epidemic as of late, so I really have to ask myself "why bother?" I've said it before, I'm a lucky guy who has been given some incredible opportunities. But this isn't my main job, I don't NEED to do this. Recent events have really made me take a closer look at this. We all have a right to express our opinions, but the blatant disrespect and rudeness that people have—and continue to show—towards creators or the fans that speak up for them, is really discouraging. We'll see, though. I've got a few other things to finish up first, and Andrew and I do have a rough outline of where we want this to go. If it's going to happen, you'll hear it here first. But in our minds, Cosmos is absolutely clunky. We're not going to make him a secret agent or anything. On second thought...."—Chris Mowry, the IDW forums (dead link)

[4] Transformers: Mosaic, deviantART, "I Am...", 2009/05/27

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