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IT M N T B O O K
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T M N T B O O K
FOR
the AWESOME PeterLaird, without whom therewould be no Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles!
AND
to our fans, who gave
us the GREATEST jobon the planet, to writeand draw our own
COMIC BOOK stories!
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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES:ARTOBIOGRAPHY. JUNE 2013. FIRST PRINTING. 2013 Kevin Eastman. 2013 Viacom InternationalInc. All Rights Reserved. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJATURTLES and all related titles, logos and characters aretrademarks of Viacom International Inc. CEREBUS andall related characters are & 2013 Dave Sim. AllRights Reserved. IDW Publishing, a division of Idea andDesign Works, LLC. Editorial offices: 5080 Santa Fe St.,San Diego, CA 92109. The IDW logo is registered inthe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Any similarities topersons living or dead are purely coincidental. With theexception of artwork used for review purposes, none ofthe contents of this publication may be reprinted without
the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Printedin Korea. IDW Publishing does not read or acceptunsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork.
Originally published in 2002 by Heavy Metal.
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IIIT M N T B O O K
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I always felt my artistic interest
and skill was inherited, but I never
knew to what depth until recently.
I had seen many of my
grandmother Eastmans watercolor
paintings, and had traced over many
car and motorcycle drawings of
my Dads when I was younger. Mymother was always doing something
creative, and today paints better
with oils and pastels than I ever will.
It seems both sides of the family
brought a piece to the table.
It wasnt until George Eastman
contacted me through the Ninja
Turtles web site in the late 90s to
confirm some facts for the Eastman
family genealogy web site that
he was building, did I get the full
picture.
It was there I first discovered
Seth Eastman. Here are some of
my favorite drawings, and the man
himself.
H I S T O R Y
MISTERDARKANDMOODY
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YFIRSTCOVERSFORCLAYGEER
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BYSYDNEY
HIGHSCHOOLMURAL
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Arguably the foremost
pictorialist of the American
Indian, Seth Eastman was born
in Brunswick, Maine on January
24, 1808. Thomas Jefferson
was finishing his second term as
president of the United States
there were seventeen states.The eldest of thirteen children of
Robert and Sarah Lee Eastman, Seth
Eastman descended directly from
Roger Eastman, the first Eastman in
the colonies. An adventurous young
man from Wiltshire (the southern
country of England wherein lies
Stonehenge), Roger boarded the
ship Confidencein Southampton
harbor, bound for Massachusetts
Bay Colony, in April 1638.
Upon graduation from West
Point, Second Lieutenant Seth
Eastman was assigned to the First Infantry and sent halfway across the continent to the edge of civilization at Prairie
du Chien, where Colonel Zachary Taylor was rebuilding old log Fort Crawford from native rock.
Like many of his fellow officers, Eastman had taken an Indian wife in 1831. The third daughter of Chief
Cloudman of the Lake Calhoun village, her name was Stands Like A Spirit.
Largely unbeknownst to the outside world, besides keeping peace on the frontier, Captain Eastman was also
amassing an amazing portfolio of paintings of Indian life. Consumed by an unquenchable passion to preserve forposterity the customs of a race he thought to be dying, Eastman was assembling a pictorial history of The Dakota
that would be second to none.
Seths mixed-blood daughter, Nancy, had grown to bewitching young womanhood. She was said to be the most
beautiful of all Dakota maidens, and Indian tradition insists that she was as good and virtuous as she was comely
of face and figure.
Eastmans final commission in 1870, also for the government, specified seventeen paintings of American forts
for the House Committee on Military Affairs. After completing nearly all of his paintings, on August 31, 1875, Seth
slumped over at his easel and died. The Washington National Republican carried a brief obituary on Thursday,
September 2nd.
MY NEW HERO
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6 T M N T B O O K
THE FIRST
EASTMAN
AND LAIRD
DRAWINGAs for me, I was born May 30, 1962 in Portland,Maine to parents Kim and Sandra Eastman. I grew up
in the tiny country town of Groville, Maine with sisters
Marlene, Judy, and Maryann. Did all that normal kid stuff,
and I liked to draw.
MYROUG
HSKETCHFORTHEFIRST
GROUPDRAWING
PETES
TWEAK
MY FIRST
SKETCH
BIRTH PLACE OF THE TURTLES
THE FIRST TURTLE
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All my earliest submissions to publishers
were Underground ones, like Last Gasp,
Rip Off Press, and Kitchen Sink. One of my
biggest supporters, high school art teacher
Jane Hawkes, found my interest in the edgier
content of these comics disheartening, but
still encouraged me to practice drawing
everything I see as I would need to if Iintended to draw comics for a living. She was
pretty special.
My mother says I drew
all the time, especially when
I was supposed to be doing
homework.I still clearly remember the
day I decided what my calling
would be, it was right after
I read the first issue of Jack
Kirbys Kamandi I wanted
to write and draw my own
stories.
This was pushed to the
next level of intensity whenI discovered Heavy Metal
magazine, and the artwork of
Richard Corben.
In pursuit of more Corben,
I found underground comics
and self-publishers. I loved the
freedom of expression they
had, while most mainstream
comics were restricted by a
ratings board.
PRE-ISS
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SHOT
CHARACTER
SHEETS
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Although I was rejected by most of the Undergroundpublishers, one of the smallest took a chance. Clay Geerdes
Comix Wavewas my first publisher, and it was an incredible
feeling. I had tasted blood, and now needed more.
After graduation from high school
in 1980, and a
brief visit to the
Portland School
of Art, I spent
the summer
cooking lobsters
before moving
to Amherst,
Massachusetts with a friend. There I found a comic magazine called
Scat and took the bus to their office in Northampton to sell them some
of my work. They werent interested, but said I should meet this local
artist with similar interests named Peter Laird. With a mutual love of
comics and Jack Kirby, we became fast friends, and began working on
short stories together right away.
THE FIRST ISSUE
THE FIRST CONVENTION
THE FINAL SHREDDER
CONCEPT
THE FIRST CONVENTION AD
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After another summer of cooking lobsters, Pete and I made a studio out of his living room and called it Mirage
Studios. Our plan was to join forces and sell our skills.
It was there in Dover, New Hampshire after some late night joking around, the first finished sketch of the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles evolved.
Tired of rejection letters, and inspired by the newest self-publishing movement, especially Dave Sims Cerebus
comic, we pooled our money and borrowed some more from my Uncle Quentin to come up with enough to print
3,000 black and white comics we were sure would never sell.May 5, 1984
we premiered the
first issue at a local co-
mic book convention. It
was incredibly exciting,
but I was back cooking
lobsters in June.
In early 1985, the
sales for book twoexceeded 15,000
copies, and by mid
1986, Turtles book
number eight shipped
more than 125,000
copies. I was drawing
comics all day, and
supporting myself the
dream had come true.
THEFIRSTPRESS
RELEASE
ONE
OFTHEFIRSTADS
HOME TOWN PRESS
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Throughout the eighties we traveled a lot
for promotional events, and met lots of other
creators, and began to expand our publishing.
We also began to do some licensing deals like the
Palladium Books Role Playing Game.
Through its publication we met an agent named
Mark Freedman, who had savvy, and a lot of the
same kind of luck we had-- Good Luck.Mark worked the right deals with the right toy
and animation studios, but would Mutant Turtles
sell?
Fortunately we were wearing our seat belts when
we found out. By 1990, in addition to the number
one toy and cartoon show status we had, New Line
Cinema, Golden Harvest, Jim Henson, and director
Steve Barron added a big screen smash hit to the list.
We had now accomplished what no other
comic industry individuals had, not only did we
write, draw, and publish our own characters,
we had reached a major level of success in the
entertainment business by making specific decisions
for characters we fully owned and fully controlled.
Im very proud, but very respectful to all
those who struggled before me who created
an environment that allowed the turtles
accomplishments to be possible.
FIRSTSANDIEGOCON
CHARACTERARTALSOT-
SHIRTIRONONS
THEART
OFBEDDIVING
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TOY PROTOTYPES FROM 1988
THE FIRST TOY FAIR WITH OUR AGENT
The licensing program that launched in 1988, and dwindled to a trickle by 1998, was an amazing adventure.
Although Peter and I nearly completely stopped drawing to handle the business of the turtles, we never stopped
being creative.
Together we worked on close to 300 of the cartoon shows, three live action films, a dozen video games, a live
action TV series, a touring stage show, and over 3,000 other licenses worldwide.Every success story seems to come with a personal cost, and although Pete and I had, and still have a strong
bond, there certainly were times it seemed we were married, and only staying together for the kids.
Regardless of the bumps, we couldnt have done it without each other. Besides, the journey more than
exceeded any of my wildest dreams, and
allowed me to see and do things that could fill a
couple of lifetimes.
A TRUE MIRAGE STUDIO
H
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RY