Pencils Makes It Professionally With Pony- Now an IDW artist

Famed purveyor of pony butts as well as creator of the popular fan comic series "Anon's Pie Adventures" Pencils finally has had his first cover for the comics shown. While initially there was some confusion, it was eventually revealed that though the cover does not go with issue #58, it goes with the next, issue #59. Pencils took to /mlp/ today to elaborate on the exciting news, and had even more to add.

Pencils, going by his name Tony Kuusisto, had his first brush with IDW after an anon from /mlp/ challenged him to redraw a comic page. The results below, though initially criticized by Curnow, eventually led Pencils to drawing several covers for the series for release over the course of 2017:

Fans are only very occasionally given retailer incentive covers to draw, so this was very exciting to hear indeed. However, it's what Pencils revealed on /mlp/ that excited many:

Yes, it indeed seems that Pencils in 2018 will likely be joining the ranks of IDW's MLP artist and doing full issues. And unlike some IDW artists/writers, he was willing to concede some criticisms towards his professional work for IDW:

It remains to be seen if this will correct the decline that IDW's comics have been going through for years, and given that Tony "Pencils" Kuusisto was already a professional before he drew MLP fanart it likely actually says little about the jump from fan to professional, but it is indeed exciting to have promising news to report about IDW's future. Now all we can do is hope that they don't force him to draw comic OCs or something, knock on wood.