Drawing speed lines and the like has never been my forté, so you would imagine that this might have been a drawback when I had a turn at drawing the lead strip in Sonic the Comic. And you’d be right!
As well as drawing a lot of strip pages for Sonic I also drew quite a lot of covers. A fair few of these covers were painted by John Burns Jr over my pencil drawing, but here is a selection of those I inked and coloured myself.
Covers are generally much better paid and a lot less work than strip pages. This is fine if you get to do the covers that go with your strip, but can be a tad harsh if the assignment goes to another artist, especially if that artist merely lifts a scene from your strip. Grrrrr…
15 February 2012 at 17:40
As I recall they changed the background on a few of these.
Who decided what would appear on the cover – you or the editor?
15 February 2012 at 17:54
I would think of an idea and do a rough. It would then be approved by the editor, Deborah Tate. Can’t remember having any rejected, though I may be wrong.
16 February 2012 at 14:13
I mean that the background colour was changed – from red to yellow on the 112 cover for example http://archive.sonichq.net/comics/images/covers/stc/large/112.jpg – and from yellow to blue on the 121 cover! http://images.wikia.com/sonic/images/7/7c/STC121.jpg
They do look a lot nicer without that text all over them!
25 March 2012 at 20:33
Hi Mick, do you have a list of all the issues of Sonic that you drew strips and covers for?
I can’t find out anywhere, and I’d like to track them down for my collection.
26 March 2012 at 02:09
Sorry I don’t.