Happy 30th Sonic!!

Better late than never, huh?

Here's to all the Sonics of the last 3 decades, and the many more to come 🥂 there's 62 Sonics in this drawing, and I left some out. If you can name them all, kudos to you 👏

This franchise means a lot to me, and after being a fan for almost 2 decades, I owe it a lot. I remember playing Sonic with all my siblings together when I was younger, and my brother having to "kill the guy on the stairs" for me in City Escape because it was too hard. We teamed up to button mash and beat Final Hazard, and we would replay it over and over just to learn the lyrics to Live and Learn. I saw Sonic X when it premiered and would go to Blockbuster every week to rent a copy of SatAM/AoStH.

Sonic was one of the main things that got me into art and making my own characters and stories. I learned to draw cartoons by tracing shots from the shows, and Tracy Yardley's work in Archie Sonic issue 200, which was the first comic I ever owned. That poor issue fell apart since I carried it with me and drew over it so many times, but it still sits on my shelf every day while I'm working. It was always a huge dream of mine to work on something official, and I would have never guessed that working on the Sonic comic would actually be my first break into the industry?! WILD😭

I can't thank the editors, artists, writers, and everyone on the IDW Sonic team enough for welcoming me and making that dream a reality. Everyone involved is so dedicated to creating a great environment and it really shows 💕

Shoutout to my friends and roommates who have to listen to my 3am rambles about why Dark Sonic deserved more screentime - or how Sonic is the ultimate lifeform - or go to conventions with me dressed as Sonic and Shadow and wreaking havoc - or watching Sonic X during finals week on the school projectors until they overheated.

You guys are feeding my addiction and it is all your faults, but also I'm thriving, and now you know a lot about a fictional blue hedgehog, and that might help you in some weird trivia game show or something down the line, idk

Happy birthday Mr. Hedgehog