Teiowí:sonte Thomas Deer (born May 28, 1976) is a Mohawk comic book colourist and illustrator based in Canada. He got into the comic industry when he won second prize in a Dreamwave contest to redesign a comic character. He underwent training at Dreamwave, but the company declared bankruptcy before he had any work published by them. Soon after he was offered work by Fun Publications at the Transformers Collectors' Club and also did freelance interior colouring and covers for IDW Publishing throughout their tenure of the Transformers comic license. Deer also works as a graphic artist and cultural liaison at the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center.

Coloring work

Fun Publications

Makes the things pretties.

• "Dawn of Future's Past"
• "The Razor's Edge"
• "I, Lowtech" preview
• "Cheap Shots" (Deer also penciled the cover)
• "Wings of Honor" (with Josh Perez)
• Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 30 (cover)
• "Generation 2: Redux" (cover)
• The Coming Storm #2-#6
• "The Stunti-Con Job" (with Jesse Wittenrich)
• A Flash Forward
• "Invasion" (with Josh Perez and Jesse Wittenrich)
• Beast Wars Shattered Glass

IDW Publishing

• Rage of the Dinobots
• Spotlight: Trailcutter
• Beast Hunters #4 (additional colors)
• "Full of Fire!"
• The Transformers: Windblade (vol. 2) #3 (with Yamaishi), #4, #5, #6, #7 (with John-Paul Bove)
• The Transformers Holiday Special: "Choose Me"
• "Ghost Stories" (with Josh Perez and John-Paul Bove)
• Optimus Prime: First Strike

External links

• Teiowí:sonte Thomas Deer's Twitter
• Thomas Deer's deviantART page

Interviews

• January 2009—The Joe Shuster Awards
• July 2021—Ia-Con (with Mae Catt, James Roberts, and Jack Lawrence)