Ben Bates

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Ben Bates is an American comic artist. He used to contribute to the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. Currently, he is contributing to the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by IDW Publishing.

History

Outside of Sonic, Bates' work can also be seen in the Mega Man and the New Crusaders comics, the former being Archie-owned, and the latter being from Archie's Red Circle imprint. Outside of Archie Comics he has done pencils for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and My Little Pony for IDW Publishing along with pencils for Teen Titans Go and inks for Scribbenauts Unmasked: A Crisis Of Imagination for DC Comics.

Bates has also worked in animation, having served as a storyboard artist at Marvel Animation, primarily on Avengers Assemble. He later worked at Cartoon Network Studios as a character and prop designer for the show OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes!. For that show, he created the model sheets for Sonic and Tails in the "Let's Meet Sonic" crossover episode.^[1]

Credits

Cover artwork

Archie Comics

Free Comic Book Day:
- Sonic the Hedgehog Free Comic Book Day 2013
Sonic Boom (comic series):
- #8-#10 (variant 2)
Sonic the Hedgehog:
- #221-#222
- #230 (regular)
- #231-#233
- #251 (variant 1)
- #252-#256 (regular)
- #260-#263 (regular)
- #273-#274 (variant 2)
- #275 (variant 5)
Sonic Universe:
- #75 (variant 2)
- #76-#77 (variant 2)
- #78 (variant 1 and 2)

IDW Publishing

Sonic the Hedgehog:
- #27 (cover RE (Sega exclusive))
Sonic the Hedgehog: Imposter Syndrome:
- #1 (online exclusive)

Art

Archie Comics

Worlds Unite Battle Books:
- Mega Man: Worlds Unite Battles #1 ("Mega Man vs Deadly 3")

Pencils

Archie Comics

Sonic the Hedgehog:
- #213-#216 (Off Panel)
- #217-#218 ("Thicker Than Water")
- #221 ("Changing Tempo")
- #223-#224 ("Chaos and the Crown")
- #230 ("...Two Steps Back")
- #231 ("Lost in the Moment")
- #232 ("Dark Tidings")
- #234 ("Dark Hearts")
- #250 ("When Worlds Collide Part Nine: All-Out War!")
- #251 ("When Worlds Collide Finale: Best of the Best")
Sonic Universe:
- #54 ("When Worlds Collide Part Eleven: Worst of the Worst")

Trivia

Bates had decided in 2012 to stop drawing interior artwork for the Sonic the Hedgehog series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics as he wanted to ink the pages himself but was not permitted to.^[2]

References

↑ Ian Jones-Quartey on Twitter. Twitter (5 August 2019). Archived from the original on 27 January 2020.
↑ Ben Bates on Twitter. Twitter (20 September 2019). Archived from the original on 20 September 2019.

External links

Ben Bates at Mobius Encyclopaedia, the Archie Sonic wiki.
Ben Bates on DeviantArt
Ben Bates on Twitter

Archie Comics staff members

Writers	Bailey \| Baker \| Bollers \| Cacace \| Castilglia \| Chacon \| DeCesare \| Edkin \| Emery \| Enos \| Esposito \| Esquivel \| Fingeroth \| Flynn \| Gallagher \| Gray \| Kanterovich \| Oliveras \| Penders \| del Rio \| Rolston \| Skolnick \| Slott \| Spivey \| Stanley \| Strom \| Taylor \| D. Tipton \| S. Tipton \| T. Rex \| Yardley
Pencils	Allan \| Axer \| Bates \| Bedell \| Best \| Bigley \| Butler \| DeCarlo \| De Liz \| Diamond Rose Studios \| Doran \| Fry \| Hands \| Herbert \| Herms \| Higgins \| Huang \| Hunter \| Hutchison \| Galan \| Golliher \| Graphic Color Works \| Gray \| Greene \| Hernandez \| Hesse \| Hill \| Jampole \| Lim \| Manak \| Mawhinney \| Maxwell \| McCarthy \| Mercadoocasio \| Ortega \| Paddock \| Parent \| Penders \| Peppers \| POWREE \| Ribeiro \| del Rio \| Schoening \| Shaw \| Skelly \| Smith III \| Spaziante \| Stanley \| Strom \| Brian Thomas \| Bryce Thomas \| C. Thomas \| Underwood \| Valentino \| Wahnish \| Wells \| Yardley
Inks	Amash \| Archer \| Austin \| Bates \| Bollers \| Crawford \| D'Agostino \| Diamond Rose Studios \| Eklund \| Gray \| Higgins \| Koslowski \| Martin \| McCarthy \| Mercadoocasio \| Milgrom \| Oliveras \| Pacheco \| Parent \| Penders \| Pepoy \| Powell \| A. Ray \| J. Ray \| Ribeiro \| Scarpelli \| Schoening \| Sheehy \| Stanley \| Thomas \| Tomas \| White \| Wiacek \| Woodruff \| Yardley
Colors	D. America \| L. America \| Baker \| Bollers \| Cassata \| Chher \| Chu \| Delgado \| Diamond Rose Studios \| Dillon \| Downer \| Gray \| Felix \| Gagliardo \| Gopher \| Grossman \| Herms \| Hunzeker \| Ieraci \| Jensen \| Kaminski \| Lisefski \| Mason \| Namlede \| O'Quinn \| Parent \| Penders \| A. Ray \| J. Ray \| Stanley \| Tsetsekas \| Vozzo \| Yardley
Letters	Davidson \| Deering \| Diamond Rose Studios \| Eisman \| Gagliardo \| Gallagher \| Higgins \| Liu \| Merlin \| Money \| Morelli \| Nakrosis \| Orzechowski \| Powell \| Penders \| Williams \| Workman \| Yoshida
Covers	Amash \| Austin \| Bates \| Best \| Brown \| Bryant \| Bryce Thomas \| Butler \| Capps \| D'Agostino \| Delgado \| Downer \| Evans \| Fry \| FT \| Galan \| Greene \| Harder \| Herms \| Hernandez \| Heroic Age Colors \| Hesse \| Horn \| Hunzeker \| Jampole \| Jensen \| Knight \| Lovallo \| Ly \| Manak \| Martin \| Mawhinney \| McCarthy \| Mercadoocasio \| Moore \| Novin \| Parnell \| Penders \| Peppers \| Piperberg \| A. Ray \| J. Ray \| T. Rex \| Ribeiro \| Riley \| Robinson \| Robinson \| Rodríguez \| Sega \| Scarpelli \| Schoening \| Shaw \| Skelly \| Spaziante \| Stanley \| Thomas \| Unger \| Wells \| Yardley
Assistant Editors	Gabrie \| Lovallo \| Pellerito \| Spaziante
Editors	Castiglia \| Edelman \| Fulop \| Gabrie \| Kaminski \| Pellerito
Editor-In-Chiefs	Goldwater \| Gorelick
Presidents	Goldwater \| Pellerito
Publishers	Archie Comics \| J. Goldwater \| R. Goldwater \| Silberkleit
Licensing	Castiglia \| Chau \| Chu \| Gaccione \| Ham \| Harris \| Hatori \| Jo \| Kiyotaki \| Leffler \| Lopez \| T. Penders \| Reyes \| Sega Licensing

IDW Publishing staff members

Writers	Ata \| Barnes \| Dutreix \| Flynn \| Galligan \| Goellner \| Graley \| Hammerstrom \| King \| Kochalka \| C. McElroy \| G. McElroy \| J. McElroy \| T. McElroy \| Mutchler \| Phegley \| Scott \| Stanley \| Swift
Pencils	Bryce Thomas \| Bulmer \| Curry \| Fonseca \| Gray \| Haines \| Hammerstrom \| Hernandez \| Lawrence \| Peppers \| Skelly \| Stanley \| Rothlisberger \| Tramontano \| Wells \| Yardley
Inks	Amash \| Bryce Thomas \| Bulmer \| Curry \| Dutreix \| Fonseca \| Froese \| Graham \| Gray \| Haines \| Hammerstrom \| Hernandez \| Keane \| Lawrence \| Mack \| Peppers \| Rothlisberger \| Smith \| Stanley \| Tramontano \| Wycough \| Yardley
Colors	Bove \| Breckel \| Bryce Thomas \| Bulmer \| Curry \| Dutreix \| Fourdraine \| Graham \| Herms \| Hernandez \| Ito \| Lafuente \| Pinto \| Pirrie \| Stanley \| Tramontano \| Unger
Letters	Breen \| Lee \| Widick
Covers	Arq \| Baker \| Bates \| Breckel \| Bryce Thomas \| Bulmer \| Cruz \| Curry \| Delgado \| Dell'Otto \| Dutreix \| Elson \| Fonseca \| Fourdraine \| Fuji \| Gates \| Gibson \| Graham \| Gray \| Haines \| Hammerstrom \| Herms \| Hernandez \| Hesse \| Huang \| Hughes \| Ito \| Jampole \| Karasuno \| Kim \| Kingdom \| Knight \| Kraft \| Lafuente \| Lawrence \| Lide \| Neofotistou \| Oz \| Peppers \| Pinto \| Rothlisberger \| Sakai \| Sarkaria \| Schoening \| Skelly \| Smith \| Spaziante \| Stanley \| Starling \| Takeyama \| Tramontano \| Uekawa \| Unger \| Wells \| Yardley
Editors	Barber \| Boone \| Brown \| Eisinger \| Farmer \| Hughes \| LaPera \| Mariotte \| Niño \| A. Simon \| K. Simon
Art directors	Lee \| Levesque \| Robbins
Publishers	Goldstein \| Marsham \| Ryall
Presidents	Bennington \| Goldstein \| Ryall
Production	Nattalie
Licensing	Cisneros \| Jo \| Kiyotaki \| Sonic Team \| Tsai \| Webber

[1] Ian Jones-Quartey on Twitter. Twitter (5 August 2019). Archived from the original on 27 January 2020.

[2] Ben Bates on Twitter. Twitter (20 September 2019). Archived from the original on 20 September 2019.

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