Denton J. Tipton

Denton J. Tipton (born February 22, 1975 or 1976) was an editor for IDW Publishing. A former journalist and comics retailer, he was brought in during March 2008 to replace Andrew Steven Harris, who had been reassigned to editing some of IDW's other titles^[2][3]. His first released editing task was The Reign of Starscream, and one supposes that tackling the fixes for the Beast Wars Sourcebook TPB release made him wonder exactly what he had gotten himself into by signing on.

Notably, he had the unenviable task of making sure Simon Furman's truncated "-tions" and Maximum Dinobots storylines connected with Shane McCarthy's All Hail Megatron maxi-series.^[4] He took a short break from editing duties to pen the B-story in All Hail Megatron #15 as part of that task, and his final editing job on IDW's Transformers title was The Transformers: Drift.

Andy Schmidt took over as full editor for Transformers following Denton's move, but was later replaced by John Barber. In July 2016 it was announced that Tipton would be taking over from Barber as Senior Editor at IDW.^[5] Denton later departed the company in May 2020.^[6]

Bibliography

Editor

• The Transformers 30th Anniversary Collection: various
• Transformers Animated: The Arrival: #1–5
• The Transformers Continuum (with Carlos Guzman)
• The Transformers: Spotlight: Blurr, Cliffjumper, Cyclonus, Doubledealer, Drift, Hardhead, Jazz (with Andy Schmidt), Metroplex, Prowl, Sideswipe, Wheelie
• All Hail Megatron: all issues, #9–12 (with Andy Schmidt), #15–16 (as Associate Editor)
• Transformers: Alliance: all issues (#4 with Andy Schmidt)
• Best of UK: City of Fear: all issues
• Best of UK: Prey: all issues
• Best of UK: Space Pirates: all issues
• Transformers: Defiance: all issues (3–4 with Andy Schmidt)
• The Transformers: Devastation: Collection edits (with Justin Eisinger)
• The Transformers: Drift: all issues
• The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots: all issues (4–5 with Andy Schmidt)
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation
• Transformers: Saga of the Allspark: IDW edits
• Transformers: The Ark II: (with others)
• The Transformers: The Art of Trevor Hutchison (with Andy Schmidt)
• Transformers: The Reign of Starscream: all issues

Associate Editor

• The Transformers (2009): #1–2, #3–11
• The Transformers: Bumblebee: all issues
• The Transformers: Ironhide: issues #1–2
• The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers: all issues
• Transformers: Nefarious: issues #1–2
• Transformers: Tales of the Fallen: all issues

Writer

• All Hail Megatron: #15 "Lost and Found"

Notes

• Despite Harris's attempt to make "DJ Tipton" catch on, he really just prefers plain old "Denton". ^[3]

References

1. ↑ Comment made on the IDW message boards on September 22nd, 2010.
2. ↑ IDW hires Denton Tipton as editor
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Andrew Harris in "IDW hires Denton Tipton as editor"
4. ↑ Simon Furman's answer to Question 7 in an IDW Q & A session
5. ↑ Editorial Changes at IDW: BARBER Out, Two Editors Promoted
6. ↑ "Hope this finds you and your family healthy and safe. As some of you may know, I've been on furlough for the past month. Since word has begun to leak, I'm making it public that I will not return to IDW Publishing."—dentontipton, Twitter, 2020/05/20

External links

• Twitter feed
• ComicBook Database entry

Interviews

• July 2010—San Diego Comic-Con (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) (with Andy Schmidt, Larry Hama, Robert Atkins, Mike Costa, Michael Kelly, and Alex Irvine)
• July 2011—San Diego Comic-Con (Part 1, Part 2) (with Chris Ryall, Mike Costa, John Barber, Livio Ramondelli, Carlos Guzman, Tom Waltz, and Brandon Kale)

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