Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Artobiography

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Artobiography Details

About the Author Born in Portland, Maine in 1962 Kevin Eastman began drawing at a very young age copying children’s books and reading comics. Inspired by master storyteller Jack Kirby, and later by self publishing creators Richard Corben, Vaughn Bode, and Dave Sim, all of his early work focused more on Science Fiction influences than traditional Superhero style comics.In 1982, while trying to sell some of his illustrations to local fanzines, he met Peter Laird in Northampton, Massachusetts and the partnership studio; Mirage Studios was formed. Less than a year later in the middle of a late night drawing session, Eastman doodled a new character he dubbed a "Ninja Turtle" to make Laird laugh—several sillier sketches and a final drawing of four characters later "Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" had officially entered the universe!Self published in May of 1984 the first issue sold out of its 3000 copies overnight and quickly became a fan favorite. Catching the eye of Merchandising Agents and Hollywood Producers, Eastman and Laird maintained full control of their creations while guiding them through Toy Licensing, TV Series adaptation, as well as Feature Film exploitation, and by 1989 the TMNT’s were number one in all three categories.Kevin Eastman resides in San Diego with wife, Courtney (aka First Lady of the Turtles), son Shane, as well as three insane Dachshunds, and two bad kitties. Read more

Reviews

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Artobiography is the origins book at heart. It's quite exciting to read about how it all started. Two guys working on comics not knowing what will happen and next thing they know their work was well received. Kevin Eastman went from cooking lobsters to drawing turtles. Then it evolved into cartoon shows, movies, video games, a life action TV series, and had over 3000 licenses.This book collects the selected thumbnail sketches and panels from the comic books that were launched since 1984. The main bulk of content is from book one to eleven, and then it jumped quite far into the book fifty. Also included are special issues dedicated to each turtle's story, guest artists covers, more sketches, add-on stories for the comics, character designs, and also concept sketches for the first movie. The concept sketches for the movies are interestingly in comic form rather than the storyboard format that we commonly see today.Commentary is provided from start to the end and is a good read into how they actually created the comic. The book is all about the comics so there aren't anything from rest of the franchise.TMNT Artobiography is a wonderful retrospective, a good flashback to the origins.Highly recommended to fans.(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

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