Winston Bolen

Winston Bolen (also known online as VegetaPrime or -VP-) is one of a few fan artists that have went on to work on official "Transfomers" products. He is a penciler, inker, and colorist.Bolen currently serves as moderator of the Iacon Art Gallery art forum at The Allspark message board.

Active in the online fandom since 1998, he became well know in the art circles in 2003 when The Allspark released "Battle Protocol", a fan created character guide to the Robots in Disguise toy line. On that project he was one of the most prolific artists having contributed as a penciler, inker, or colorist on over a dozen entries.

His first professional work appeared in 2006 when he illustrated and colored the official art work for RID Optimus Prime's profile in Fun Publication's Official TF magazine. Later that year he was the artist on Cybertron Downshifts official profile.

Bolen was recently the penciler and inker for The Allspark's Break-fest exclusive print at the 2008 BOTCON.

Personal Life
Bolen was born in McRae, GA on January 6, 1978. He is an honor graduate of Telfair County High School. He attended Middle Georgia College in Cochran, GA as an Art major, and earned a degree in Computer Networking from Heart of Georgia Technical College in Dublin, GA. He is married to Shiloh Bolen and has 3 children: Lane, Aeris, and Alana. They reside in Rentz, GA.

He is currently a graphic designer and writer for a local newspaper, as well as a freelance artist and computer repair tehnician. He is also working as an artist on Fun Pubication's G.I. Joe fan club property.

Bolen is an atheist.

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