We do have an established Archie thread here, but I opted to make this a separate thread to hopefully catch the eye of those who don't check that thread particularly often (or at all), if a mod feels this fits better in the Megathread, please move the post into there, thank you. For quite some time, Tracy Yardley! has been a fantastic contributor to Archie's Sonic series, the man really brings a lot to the table and has done some of the best artwork for the comic, bringing his own style and look to the characters while still keeping them in model with their game counter parts and bringing a pleasing aesthetic to the comic as a whole. However, it came to mine and a friend's attention that despite this he was having some trouble making ends meet. Tracy himself puts it better than I can. So, the plan is this. Me and FTA (of FindTheComputerRoom (and hopefully a few of our pals in the area)) are going to get together to host a charity stream for a man who has definitely helped to improve the series image, quite literally. On April 19th, at around 3 PM EST at twitch.tv/ftcr69 (unfunny, we know) we'll start a stream up. Throughout the stream a 2 hour interview between FTA and Tracy will air in half hour chunks (the entire interview will be available uninterrupted in full sometime after the stream). In between those chunks we'll be playing through some of Tracy's favorite games, and also playing together in multiplayer Sonic modes, and altogether just having a good time (unless we play Shuffle). Of course, for donating there are some cool rewards on the table, most of which were generously offered up by Tracy himself. Just about everything he provided is signed, there's original artwork for pages of the comic, a few issues of the comic itself, a few paper trades of the series, a couple Jazwares figures, a signed Sonic:Genesis hardcover book, and more. The prizes will be tiered with the donation amount, which we'll be explaining in more detail closer to the stream, and anyone who donates into that tier will be entered in a raffle drawing. Having seen it first hand the original page artwork is especially cool and probably the neatest item for fans of Tracy and the comic as a whole. This way we can help out a fellow fan of the series, and you can possibly earn some cool stuff while you're at it! (A few of the original pages up for grabs) We're trying to keep this just within the Sonic community. There should be a front page post here on Retro and over at The Sonic Stadium soon to help spread the word, but if any of you guys and gals know of anyone who'd like to swing by and hang out, please let them know! Even if you can't donate, come on by! It'll be a blast. If you like the Facebook thing, we do have an event page as we're trying to get a rough idea of at least how many will be joining us over the stream. https://www.facebook.com/events/243913629129117/
What a great idea! I love Yardley's work. He and Ben Bates have given the comics a consistent level of quality art from month to month in a way that the series had never really had before that. I'm not going to be able to watch the live stream most likely, but I chipped in a bit anyway. Hope it's a huge success!
Aw man I didn't know he was having issues. Or had 5 kids. I guess I can hang around and see what I can do.
That's pretty cool. Tracy is a fantastic artist. Those pencil sketches of his that he pitched to Nintendo would've had me jumping at the chance to let him draw a Mario or Metroid comic, if I'd been making the decision.
Thanks guys. We're getting started in a few minutes with Brawl and going from there. Twitch.tv/ftcr69 EDIT: It went pretty well. There was tons of comic discussion which did my head in as I did my first run through of Color's challenge mode and messed around in Unleashed, us discovering that we really don't care for the Olympics games, and me remembering that I thought Zero Gravity was pretty cool while others didn't care for it. And we got a pretty nice sum for Tracy. Thanks again to everyone who stopped by. Mods, please feel free to lock and trash this topic.
