Dreamwave Productions: Difference between revisions

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In 1996, [[Pat Lee]] and [[Roger Lee]] founded Dreamwave Productions under the [[Image Comics]] imprint and published their first miniseries, [[Darkminds]], quickly making their [[manga]]-influenced style their trademark, merging the look of an [[animated film]] with [[sequential art]].

In 2002, Dreamwave splintered off from Image and became a publishing company in their own right following their attainment of the lisencelicense to the popular [[Hasbro]] toyline, [[Transformers (toyline)|Transformers]]. The first miniseries, featuring art by Lee and writing by Chris Sarracini, based on the classic Transformers "G1" characters, was the top-selling book on the sales charts for it'sits entire run. More series followed, expanding their G1 stories to shape a brand new universe, covering the current toyline, ''[[Transformers: Armada]]'', and famed Transformers scibe [[Simon Furman]] came on board to produce [[The War Within]], a series detailing prevously-undocumented aspects of the Transformers' past. Many artistic members of the fan community, such as [[Don Figueroa]] and [[Guido Guidi]] were hired by the company, entering the professional word of comics via their hobby.

Three years later, signs of trouble began to appear when [[James McDonough]] and [[Adam Patyk]] left the company over pay disputes. Subsequently, despite plans for their replacement, it was announced that Dreamwave had gone out of business, citing "the shrinking comic book market combined with a weak U.S. dollar" as the cause of their closure in January 2005, after a month of rumours and speculation had all but made this a foregone conclusion amongst readers.