I've always liked Art Mawhinney's artwork. He's a great penciller. If anyone agrees that Art should do more comic segments in the Archie Sonic Comics, make yourselves heard.
i really don't like art mawhinney. he was honestly on my worst penciler in STH list, he drew everything too child-like. which is ok, for awhile, but when there's supposed to be a fight scene he doesn't do very well at all. i don't want him back ever personally
Can't say I'm a fan of his art. He doesn't seem to adapt too well to new character designs, and his poses and facial expressions don't have much dynamic or range (not helped by the fact that sometimes everyone ends up with such stumped proportions that their limb movement looks limited - not that I mind the "childish" look so much but rather it tends to make the characters sorta stiff).
I always liked him back in the day, but I'm not sure how well his style would fit the comic now. Wouldn't mind him doing a backup or two though.
Aside from Tracy, who are the regular artists on this book now? Matt Herms, occassionaly Tania del Rio, and Dave Manak when they want something old school? Is that it?
Steven Butler did the Knuckles and Locke Master Emerald convo. a while back. But that was quite a few issues ago.
Other than that, it's just been Tracy. And he's doing the next 3 issues coming out as well.
They really need to give Tracy a break, unless he actually wants the massive workload. He's a good artist and all, but I still wouldn't mind seeing some of the others doing something every now and then.
Except for Mawhinney. I loved the guy back in the day, but now his style's out. It just won't work anymore.
i can't speak for him, but if i was tracy i'd be glad i have such consistent work as an artist. that's how he gets his meal ticket you know.
Steven Butler did the Knuckles and Locke Master Emerald convo. a while back. But that was quite a few issues ago.
Other than that, it's just been Tracy. And he's doing the next 3 issues coming out as well.
Well, Matt Hermes was in there too (though Tracy did his layouts once). James Fry I think did the Darkest Storm arc, and there was some apparently one-shot artist who did the backup story about Antoine's dad (though frankly I won't mind if he never comes back - sweet story cursed with off-model art). But yeah, Tracy's got a lot on his plate (not that I doubt he minds, given recent events =P). However, unlike Ron Lim, he seems able to keep up speedy results without sacrificing quality.
Variety's cool too, though.
"that's how he gets his meal ticket you know."
Hence:
"unless he actually wants the massive workload."
Since as far as I know, he's working on both Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic X.
I wouldn't turn him away if he wanted to come back.
Nah. Just keep him doing his children's books. His stuff was always to "Goo-Goo, Gah-Gah" for me.
He's the main reason I didn't get into Sonic comics for awhile. I'd see an enticing cover by Spaz, only to find Art's Care Bear crud on the inside.
Nah. Just keep him doing his children's books. His stuff was always to "Goo-Goo, Gah-Gah" for me.
He's the main reason I didn't get into Sonic comics for awhile. I'd see an enticing cover by Spaz, only to find Art's Care Bear crud on the inside.
that's surprisingly accurate to how i feel. a little too "cuddly" for any serious story.
I liked Mawhinney's art back in the day. He was better than Dave Manak by at least a light year. After the great Adventure conversion however, the dude was pretty much screwed, as his art just doesn't match up with the SA style. Sonic would always end up looking waaaay too pudgy. XD
What I don't understand is why he did'nt just alter the way he drew them. I mean, it honestly could'nt be that hard, all the other artists on the book did it.
It may not be hard to alter, but to succeed is another story. They are artists from issues way back that had tried to draw in that style but never could pull it off. Maybe Art is one of them?
What this book needs is Greg Land and Rob Liefeld doing pencils. 
no, alex ross should paint every issue. there, i win lol
Speaking of artists, whatever happened to Dawn Best? She provided some lovely art.
I'll say. She was treated like the Second Coming of Galan when she was hired by Archie, worked on 2-3 books and then... that's it. All I know was that, at the time (and still possibly), she was working as a full-time model so that may be why she dropped out of penciling for the comic.
her early stuff on the comic was pretty good. but it kinda got too bubbly near the end of her run. but she was pretty decent for awhile IMO
I never liked the caveman-like brows she gave the echidnas.
I really miss Axer. For what it's worth I think he was easily the best artist they've ever had on the comic.
I really miss Axer. For what it's worth I think he was easily the best artist they've ever had on the comic.
definately the best to ever be on the comic in my opinion, spaz was awesome too. but axer just had that cool style.
I really miss Axer. For what it's worth I think he was easily the best artist they've ever had on the comic.
Heck yes!! Axer added so much detail to the characters. You can still see some of his other art on his Deviant art account.
*slaps Psx for the Liefeld reference*
Titan Tails was bad enough as an isolated incident, thankyouverymuch!
As much as I found Axer's work jaw-dropping in places, I thought that he started to develop the opposite problem to Mawhinney. Whereas everything Mawhinney drew was fine for the slapstick, fluffy earlier era but was limited in terms of action, range and detail in a way that'd handicap current storylines, Axer - and Steven Butler, too - sometimes seemed to ram his head so far up the backside of the craze for manga-style that was going on at the time that I sometimes felt as though I was looking at a parody. The amount of huge moisture reflections in the eye and oddball proportions just got wearing after a bit.
Early Axer or early Butler - or even early Dawn Best - would be a style I'd like to see back, but I think that Yardley's really grown into his position as penciller. I like what he's doing with the characters a lot these days, as a nice balance between the two styles.
Although I wouldn't say no to a bit more of that Jon Gray guy, either... 
Would it be ok if you guys put up samples of every art style used in the comic that you can remember? With the name of the penciler beside it? I'm honestly having a hard time connecting names to art styles and I don't have ANY of my old comics anymore.
As much as I found Axer's work jaw-dropping in places, I thought that he started to develop the opposite problem to Mawhinney. Whereas everything Mawhinney drew was fine for the slapstick, fluffy earlier era but was limited in terms of action, range and detail in a way that'd handicap current storylines, Axer - and Steven Butler, too - sometimes seemed to ram his head so far up the backside of the craze for manga-style that was going on at the time that I sometimes felt as though I was looking at a parody. The amount of huge moisture reflections in the eye and oddball proportions just got wearing after a bit.
Agreed. I also though that while Axer was very talented with the scene placement (the birds eye-vies of Knothole is still one of my favorite images from the comic) to the inking of the characters. Axer I though had a very bad habbit with using too much lines, especially when it came to hatching and clothing folds. The man really loves his lines. XD;
Although I wouldn't say no to a bit more of that Jon Gray guy, either...
I heard that when his pencil touches a canvas... **MAGIC!!!**
what the ()&^( is with the Mawhinney hate round here???
he's my 3rd fave artist on the series:
1.Manny Galan
2.Spaz (did too little interiors to be #1)
3.Mawhinney
4.Shaw
5.Butler
I think Mawhinney's style suited the series just fine. Sonic's supposed to have that cuddly feel i think. Actually, i think i only like mawhinney because his style was so similar to galan's....
This is neither compliment nor insult, but Art had always used to make the characters like little kids like the sonic kids storyline, even when he started out, they were all very little, until Spaz came into the picture and made them all taller.
I just found out last night that Mawhinney was a story board artist for both Sonic SatAM and AOSTH. I thought that was pretty interesting.
