Livio Ramondelli, the artist from th  "Chaos" story arc in IDW's Transformers 2011 ongoing comic, has announced via Twitter that he will be attending BotCon 2012.

Click here to see Livio Ramondelli's tweet

BotCon 2012 takes place April 26-29 in Dallas, Texas.

PreviewsWorld has updated with a preview of IDW's Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime. This special is­sue, the 125th Transformers comic published by IDW, is written by  James Roberts and John Barber, with art by Nick Roche.  This new team will be looking after the comics from January.

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Newsarama is reporting that rather than directly start on Transformers Issue 81, Simon Furman will be starting with Transformers Issue 80.5 as a way for old fans to remember details long forgotten and for new fans to catch up.

Transformers 81 is due for release in 2012.

IDW has annouced more details of it's interlicence cross over which will see Zombies invade the universes of Transformers, GI Joe, Star Trek and Ghostbusters.

Comic Book Resource has more information.

Derrick Wyatt has updated his blog with a new post regarding the IDW Transformers Animated comic character The Wraith.  

"I was lucky enough to have a tiny bit of spare time a while back where I got to design The Wraith for the IDW comic Transformers Animated The Arrival, written by TFA's own Marty Isenberg. I really jumped at the chance to draw him because Marty has had the idea for this character right from the get go of our show. It was also fun just to get to do an old school HB-esque super hero." writes Derrick who also posts a design sheet image in his article.

In related news Jim Sorenson has put up a new blog that is dedicated to Transformers design models that did not make it into the two volumes of The Ark that he Bill Forster did for IDW.   You can view his blog, Disciples of Boltax, at http://boltax.blogspot.com/.

Transformers Hispanos have posted an interview with IDW Publishing Editor Denton J. Tipton. Denton talks about a variety of subjects including Transformers Animated, featuring a Dinobot story (from Simon Furman and Nick Roche).

To view the complete interview, click here.

Thanks to Seibertron for the spot

Seibertron are reporting that IDW have annouced that they will be reprinting the Titan UK Transformers Movie comic stories from July.

Originally Posted by STL
Hopefully IDW reprint the inside stuff later on.

We will be, starting this July.

Amazon have updated their product listings for Transformers Animated Paperback Volume 1 and Volume 2 to include the proper images of the covers. We're mirrored the images below.

Simon Furman has updated his blog with a post Dublin Sub-Con entry that contains a little bit more infomration on Transformers Mosaic as well as a few comments on future entries to his blog.

On Transformers Mosaic's Simon comments "the news finally broke while I was away that I’ll be contributing a one-page story to the fan project Transformers Mosaic (go here for the full Newsarama interview with Josh Van Reyk and Shaun Knowler, the driving force behind Mosaic), which showcases new (one-page) strips by budding writers and artists, and is well worth your time to check out. The stories can be from any era or incarnation of Transformers and the one-page format makes for some pithy and unique storytelling. Anyway, I’m writing (or actually, have written) a story called ‘Hail and Farewell’ which sits very much in the current IDW/TF continuity. It’s set a year or two ahead of where we are now (in Devastation) and features Hunter O’Nion and Sunstreaker. Can’t tell you any more, as it’s very difficult to tease here without giving too much away. But it touches on stuff that the main series will expand on big time. It’s being drawn by two guys who are new to Transformers but have comics careers that span a decade or more (and also happen to be good friends of mine, which is always handy when there’s no money involved!), Steve Buccellato and Don Hudson."

Simon also comments that Death’s Head vol 2, Transformers Devastation #1, Beast Wars The Ascending #1 and Beast Wars Sourcebook #1 are all out now with Titan’s Transformers #4 coming out next week. Speaking on Titans Transformers Issue 4, Simon mentions that he will have a full trailer next week

Future posts will include a report on the Dublin Sub-Con event, more on the Forbidden Planet London signing (Thursday October 25th from 6PM) and a Script Wrap on Transformers (UK) #7, the first full in-movie continuity issue.

To read the post in full, visit Simon's blog.

.. keep in mind this was mentioned at a rumor site. There's no deal in place, but people have been talking about this one from the start, simply because Simon Furman is writing both books. I think it'd be cool and feel organic to what we've been doing for that reason, but there's nothing signed or scheduled, it's just talk, the same way the JLA one was a year ago. But either way, I can't see how a crossover is weakening the brand.

That was Chris Ryall's comments posted on the IDW Publishing forums in response to the rumours started on Comic Book Resource and then reported on TFWorld2005.