Archie Sonic Alums Join Penders's Argument in Copyright Lawsuit

Two former artists on the Archie Comics Sonic series, including original artist Scott Shaw, have filed statements supplementing Ken Penders’s pending motion to dismiss Archie Comics’s lawsuit against him, TSSZ has learned.

Shaw, along with former Archie artist Amber Greenlee, have both submitted statements in a response to Archie’s opposition to that motion to dismiss.  The documents were submitted March 9th and intend to challenge Mike Pellerito’s earlier statement about Ken’s terms of employment with the company while he was handling the Sonic series.  Counsel for Penders believes that nothing Archie has submitted into evidence so far supports their case.  Archie is seeking to declare rights on work Penders created while employed by Archie–work that Penders has since won protection for by the U.S. Copyright Office.

Shaw was the original artist on the Sonic comic when it debuted in the early 1990s.  Greenlee was an artist, colorist, and inker for the Sonic Series from 1998 through 2002.

No response to that response has been filed by Archie, and that June 7th court conference will be rescheduled, TSSZ has learned.  We may know the fate of Penders’s motion when that conference is held.