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Ken Penders
American comic book creator and writer (born 1958)
Ken Penders
Kenneth W. Penders II is an American comics artist and writer. He is known for his work on the Archie Comics series Sonic the Hedgehog and its Knuckles the Echidna spin-off, which he contributed to from 1993 to 2006, and for subsequent copyright disputes involving material from those comics. After leaving Archie, Penders filed for copyright over works he created for the comics, amounting to hundreds of characters and concepts. Archie sued Penders to retain the rights, however the case was settled out of court with the details never made public. Subsequently, in 2013, Archie rebooted the Sonic comic to remove all of Penders's characters. Penders attempted to sue Sega and EA Games in 2011 for alleged plagiarism of one of his concepts in the 2008 video game Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood but was dismissed twice. In 2010, Penders announced The Lara-Su Chronicles, a graphic novel series that would continue his storyline Mobius: 25 Years Later, using his characters. In June 2024, after...
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