Simon Furman is a writer for comic books and TV animation, with a major involvement in Transformers, the '80s toy phenomenon. He has written literally hundreds of stories about the war-torn 'robots in disguise'. His other comic book credits include Doctor Who, Dragon's Claws, Death's Head, Alpha Flight, Turok, She-Hulk, Robocop, and What If? In the TV animation field, Simon has written for shows such as Beast Wars, Roswell Conspiracies, Dan Dare, X-Men: Evolution, Alien Racers and A.T.O.M.. Simon's recent/current writing work includes StarCraft, Transformers: Nefarious, Terminator - Revolution, Ronan and Death's Head 3.0, Transformers UK, Wallace & Gromit and Torchwood. He is also the author of numerous books and is currently the lead writer and script supervisor for the animated TV show The Matt Hatter Chronicles.