Here’s some news straight from Comic-Con: Archie Comics’ Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Universe series have a new editor and a new producer! Paul Kaminski, formerly the assistant editor of the Sonic books at Archie Comics, is the new Editor and Chief of both Sonic books.
In addition to him, fan favorite artist Jonathan Gray has been brought onto Archie’s in-house art production staff, we’re he’ll be making corrections on the in-book art and helping with Sonic related art production.
What does this mean for Sonic comic fans? We’re not sure at the moment. This change is all the news we currently know, but we will be conducting an interview with Kaminski tomorrow. It will be going up on Sunday.
Also, stay tuned for our Ken Penders video interview (which should be going up tomorrow), as well as some giveaways of books signed by Penders himself. Perhaps even some Spaz prints, if you guys are interested.
Correction: For all of you wondering why Gray would be on board as a producer, he’s not. Apparently, he is actually on Archie’s in-house production team. The article has been corrected accordingly.
i love the sonic comics artist at the moment its sorta feeling like reading an anime
I wonder if this will even effect much. It always seemed to me that the editors pretty much let the writers do what they want and stay out of the way, save for extreme cases. Which in my opinion is the job of an editor anyway.
Nice scoop! Interesting time for a shuffle.
I knew the second Paul was brought on board that he’d be the editor before too long. Mike helped out Gabrie before he became editor, and Gabrie helped out Fulop before he became editor. And the cycle continues. 😉
From what I can tell, Mike has been moving up the ladder in Archie comics as managing editor, taking over Victor Gorelick’s old position after Gorelick was promoted to editor-in-chief after Richard Goldwater’s untimely passing.
But Dubs being the producer of the book, that’s a curveball right there!
…er, what exactly is a comic book producer? That’s a title I can’t recall being used in the book before.
Oh, Comic producers are much like their movie counterparts. Finance (in this case) editors. Use name power to promote their associated product. Adopt a small child from a third world country and name it after a car or a household appliance, or better yet, name them something with no vowels. Make sure that when the team of artist’s needs to draw central park that central park is cleared so that they can draw in peace. The usual.
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I just hope Jonathan Gray will still be drawing because I absolutely love his art style.
Darn! Should have gone to Comic-Con this year. Ah well. *shrugs*
Hearing Jon Gray is on the active staff makes my day. I love his style. He was the artist in the first issue I ever bought.