Turtles Forever

TMNT characters from cartoons, movies and comics (not to mention their creators!) cross paths in the upcoming Turtles Forever! The movie will be released on November 21.

Mirage blogs!

I don't know how I'd never come across these before- blogs by the Mirage team!

Peter Laird's palblog

Jim Lawson's Box Burning

Steve Lavigne and Ryan Brown's Cowabunga Cartoon Classics

Eric Talbot's Blargh!

The King's Turtles

Peter Laird on this Blast from the Past:

I don't know the exact process by which it came to be, but my understanding is that some time in the late 1980's or early 1990's, Jack Kirby did this 10 inch by 15 inch pencil drawing -- his interpretation of the TMNT -- at Kevin's request, and some years later, Kevin (who knew I loved this piece) graciously gave it to me.

As far as I know, this is the only time "The King" ever drew the TMNT... and it's SO Kirby. I love it!

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Samurai rabbit, rhino to meet ninja turtle

Stan Sakai unveils Usagi and Gen's designs for the upcoming season of TMNT.

Ninja Turtles no longer teenage

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1, May 1984

TMNT celebrates 25 years one year early at Newsarama. Check out interviews with Mirage Studios' Peter Laird, Dan Berger and Stephen Murphy.

Official TMNT site here.

Spoils of NY Comic Con: TMNT Art by Jim Lawson

This past weekend at NY Comic Con I was fortunate enough to meet the whole Mirage Studios gang, whose TMNT comics have always been an inspiration (and an addiction of mine.) Jim Lawson is "King of the Turtle Comics" as far as I'm concerned, and I still can't believe I was able to pick up some of his originals at the show...

"Tales of Leonardo #1: Blind Sight" Cover Art by Jim Lawson:

"Tales of Leonardo #2: Blind Sight" Page 25 art by Jim Lawson:

"TMNT (Volume 4) #25" Page 11 art by Jim Lawson:

The scanner is down so this one may be hard to see...
Jim said this page was actually output to print without having to ink it...



From "The Catch" (not sure which issue this is) Page 30 art by Jim Lawson:



And Jim Lawson can be seen here, very briefly, in that ol' TMNT documentary from 1991
Behind The Shells - Look for him around 2:30 in:

Some info on Jim Lawson here
History of Mirage Studios here
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Official Site

(A big thanks to the Kidrobot kids Sara and Nitin for a rad weekend at the con!)

Sunday @ New York Comic Con

Peter Laird

Laird, Jim Lawson and Steve Lavigne signed the only copy of Planet Racers seen at the con

Joe Sinnott, Dick Ayers and Irwin Hasen

Costumes: Jessica Drew Spider-Woman, Ben Reilly Spider-Man, anime character (Battle for the Planets?) and the obligatory Storm Trooper

Keith Giffen

signed by Giffen and Kevin Maguire

Jack Kirby's Fourth World Series II (Superman's head even looks like it was redrawn by Curt Swan!)

Grant Morrison gets swarmed at the DC booth

The Incredible Hulk

Peter David and Jason Aaron (no last names allowed at this table)

signed by David

All Star Batman and All Star Superman Toys

JLU toyline continues to expand

signed by Louise Simonson

behind the scenes at The Stack

Through the looking glass: Mike Mignola and Mike Richardson

signed by Bryan Hitch

signed by Steve McNiven and Dexter Vines

Surprisingly, the most surreal sight of the day wasn't at the New York Comic Con...




(special thanks to Sara for the passes!)

Turtles Meme?

by Taylor McKimens

Check out different artists' takes on the TMNT here.

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Turtles:College::Heavy Metal:_

Kevin Eastman interview continued.
Heavy Metal magazine website here.
Kevin's Heavy Metal column here.

Interview with World's Luckiest Man (part 1)

Newsarama talks with TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman (pictured above, not Ron Jeremy) here.

Turtles For Sale

Kevin Eastman Studios is auctioning off the original art from TMNT #1
Auction here
If only I had $250 thousand to piss away...

A Brief History of Turtles

Right here.

Jim Lawson on Stun!

TMNT workhorse Jim Lawson is interviewed by James VanOsdol on Stun!, the weekly comics podcast.
Check it out here.

TMNT join the Hand, Attack the New Avengers

The juxtaposition of the last page of New Avengers #28 and the inside back cover advertisement is hilarious....unintentionally!