We are beyond thrilled to welcome Simon Furman as our first guest of honour at RetCon 2026 – and for the first time in six years, he returns to Sweden!
Simon Furman
… is a writer for comic books, games & TV animation, his name indelibly linked to Transformers, the 80s toy phenomenon (in 2012 Furman was inducted into Hasbro’s official Transformers Hall of Fame). He is the co-creator of Marvel’s Death’s Head and Dragon’s Claws.
His past Transformers credits includes numerous stories for Marvel UK (among them Target: 2006, Dinobot Hunt and The Legacy of Unicron), Marvel US (from #56-80), Transformers: Generation 2 (#1-12), Dreamwave’s The War Within and IDW’s Infiltration, Escalation & Devastation, and more recently Transformers: Regeneration One and Transformers ’84.
Screen credits include the final episode of the Beast Wars animated TV series, Nemesis pt2. For games, Furman continues to contribute storylines for mobile build & battle game Transformers: Earth Wars and is lead writer on Transformers EarthSpark: Expedition and several upcoming and TBA games projects. To celebrate the 40th Anniversary year of TRANSFORMERS, Dynamite Entertainment released a trading card set featuring creator cards by Furman, and the recent Skybound Kickstarter that collects Furman’s TRANSFORMERS work for Marvel Comics raised a staggering $4.8 million.
He is the author of Transformers: The Ultimate Guide, You Can Draw Transformers, Transformers: The Movie Universe, Rad Robots and other reference books, and oversaw the recent Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection (from Hachette).
Furman is currently writing Return to Skull Island (based on the hit Netflix TV series) for Titan Comics and a second series of Astrobots – the all-new mecha series from Massive Publishing, based on toy designs by Aaron Thomas.
With artist Geoff Senior, Furman is the co-creator of To The Death (www.to-the-death.com), a 10-issue maxi-series combining hard-hitting sci-fi action and sharp-edged satire, and TTD spin-off Killatoa (both currently serialised in Shift Comic). Latest release To The Death: Rex & Rule includes new material by Furman & Senior as well as ‘Bring The Rayne’, an all-new story with artist Barry Kitson. Furman’s creator-owned crime noir GN, Five Points (with artist Martin Stiff), is available exclusively through Amazon. A sequel, The Gyre, is now in the works and scheduled for release in 2026.
Past comic credits include Action Force, Alpha Flight, Annihilation: Ronan, Death’s Head, Doctor Who, Dragon’s Claws, How to Train Your Dragon, Robocop, Robotech, She-Hulk, StarCraft, Terminator, Torchwood, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, What If?, The Vigilant and The Leopard From Lime Street.
In TV animation, Furman served as head writer/script supervisor on the hit Nicktoons & CITV show, Matt Hatter Chronicles, and has written for shows such as Dan Dare, Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens. Myths and Legends, X-Men: Evolution and A.T.O.M.