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 has been the script supervisor for the animated TV show The Matt Hatter Chronicles.