Call for Contributions to an Essay Collection: Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye
The editor is currently seeking proposals for an essay collection investigating and interrogating the popular Transformers franchise.
With this summer's release of a third major blockbuster film, along with an ongoing comic series, and a new cartoon series, on top of perennial toylines, the Transformers franchise has grown and developed significantly from its humble start in 1984 as a toy-hawking cartoon, while many of its mid-80s peers have languished in neglect. What is it that has captured the imagination for so long? What has kept it alive through so many changes of media, market pressure, and fictive universe?