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Kevin Brooks Eastman (born May 30, 1962) is an American comic book writer and artist best known for co-creating the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Peter Laird. [2] Eastman was also formerly the editor and publisher of the magazine Heavy Metal .
Feb 23, 2024 · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman shows off the new TMNT squad in action in this IGN exclusive preview of The Last Ronin II: Re-Evolution.
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Kevin Brooks Eastman (born May 30, 1962; 61 years old) is an American comic book artist and writer, best known as the co-creator of the Turtles together with Peter Laird.
Besides Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he worked on V-Wars, Zombie War, Fistful of Blood along with Simon Bisley, The Kamandi Challenge along with Freddie E. Williams II, The Last Fall, Cage Hero, Grimjack, The Other Dead and Elephantmen.
Eastman was born on May 30, 1962 in Portland, Maine. By 1983, he was "working in a restaurant and seeking underground publishers for his comix stories", having been collaborating with Peter Laird for a short while on various comics projects. The following year, in May 1984, Eastman and Peter Laird self-published (for $1,200) the first black & white...
Laird's newspaper experience led to the two creating "a four-page press kit, that, according to Flaming Carrot-creator Bob Burden's own Mystery Men press-kit included "a story outline and artwork that they sent to 180 TV and radio stations", as well as both the Associated Press and United Press International. This led to widespread press coverage of both the TMNT property and Mirage Studios itself, creating "a demand for the interestingly-titled comic that caught everyone by surprise. With the solicitation of their second issue, Eastman and Laird's Ninja Turtles comic began a meteoric rise to success, bringing in advance orders of 15,000 copies - five times the initial print run of the first issue. This, Eastman has been quoted as saying:
"basically ended up with us clearing a profit of two thousand dollars apiece. Which allowed us to write and draw stories full time: it was enough to pay the rent, pay the bills, and buy enough macaroni and cheese and pencils to live on.
The Ninja Turtles phenomenon saw the duo invited to their first comics convention at the tenth annual Atlanta Fantasy Fair in 1984, where they mingled with the likes of Larry Niven, Forrest J Ackerman and Fred Hembeck (among others).
With their (November 1985) fifth issue, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figlehorn to the actual "normal" American comics-format and size, and the previous four issues were also reprinted in this size and format with new color covers. Also in 1985, Solson Publishing released a "How to draw" volume entitled How to draw Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Solson would also produce six issues of a TMNT "Authorized Training Manual" as well as a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teach Karate" volume in 1987.)
Aug 5, 2023 · TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman shares his memories of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, from the early comics to the Hollywood deal. Learn how he and Peter Laird maintained creative control and why the movie was a darker and edgier take on the Turtles.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, commonly abbreviated as TMNT, is a media franchise created by the comic book artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It follows Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo, four anthropomorphic turtle brothers trained in ninjutsu who fight evil in New York City. The franchise encompasses printed media, television ...
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Aug 18, 2022 · Almost 40 years ago, Kevin Eastman co-created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Peter Laird. What started as a fun illustration of Michelangelo quickly transformed into a global phenomenon as the four mutant brothers jumped out of the original black and white comic books to take over the planet with cartoons, toys, video games, movies, and so much more.
