Well, we can’t be really sure to what degree Monika Nikodem did art in those comics. She could have just been good at assembling pieces found on the internet together into halfway decent images. That was still an improvement to what we had had before.
 
The latest one with Sugar Belle was made by Marta Kostrzewa. Now that’s actual original art. I mean, it’s not the level you would expect from IDW, but it actually looks pretty nice. A proper artist now should let Egmont have a bigger variety of expressions and characters than before (recolors didn’t counted). But I couldn’t find anything about her background, so I’m not sure if it really is one of the people from the fandom that submitted their art to the publisher.

@The Smiling Pony  
In the latest issues they are much better. They hired people who can draw.  
I even heard about campaign from publisher that they wanted to hire people from our community to do it.  
And it looks like they did.

@kuco  
I don’t remember changing my name to that… Nor did the other dozen or so vectorists whose work they used.
 
I mean, I don’t mind that they do, given every non fanart image they do is… not great. But it’d be nice if they at least acknowledged it. I guess that like Gameloft they either don’t care or believe all these on-model vectors floating around the internet are just Hasbro clipart.

@The Smiling Pony  
According to credits they were done by Monika Nikodem.

@The Smiling Pony  
yeah they are in the magazine comics can get pretty lazy

So much fanmade art used in official comics (including mine)…