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American comic book artist and writer

Kevin Eastman
Kevin Eastman.jpg

Eastman on April 23, 2009
Born Kevin Brooks Eastman
(1962-05-30) May 30, 1962 (age 59)
Portland, Maine, U.S.
Nationality American
Expanse(south)
  • Comic book artist
  • writer
  • penciller
  • inker
  • editor
  • publisher
  • letterer
  • colorist

Notable works

 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,[1] Heavy Metallic, The Melting Pot
Collaborators Peter Laird, Eric Talbot, Simon Bisley
Awards Inkpot Award (1989)[2]
Spouse(s)

Julie Strain

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(m. 1995; div. 2006)​


Courtney Carr

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(m. )​
Children ii sons
Signature
Signature of Kevin Eastman

Kevin Brooks Eastman (born May 30, 1962) is an American comic volume artist and writer all-time known for co-creating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Peter Laird.[3] Eastman was also formerly the editor and publisher of the mag Heavy Metal.

Early life and career [edit]

Eastman was built-in in Portland, Maine. He attended Westbrook High School in Westbrook, Maine, with comic book illustrator Steve Lavigne.[4] He grew up a comic book fan, with Jack Kirby as his idol and Kamandi as his favorite championship of his.[five]

In 1983 he worked in a restaurant while he searched for publishers for his comics. He met a waitress who was attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst and followed her to Northampton, Massachusetts.[half-dozen] While searching for a local cloak-and-dagger newspaper to publish his work, he began a professional relationship with Peter Laird, who worked at nearby Dover, New Hampshire, and the two collaborated for a brusque fourth dimension on various comics projects.[7]

In May 1984, Eastman and Laird self-published the first black & white issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The forty-page oversized comic had an initial impress run of 3,275 copies and was largely funded past a US$thou loan from Eastman's uncle Quentin. It was published past the duo's Mirage Studios, a proper name called because, equally Eastman says, "there wasn't an bodily studio, only kitchen tables and couches with lap boards."[seven] [8] By September 1985, their showtime issue had received iii additional printings.[9]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [edit]

Laird's paper feel led to the two creating a four-page press kit,[x] which included a story outline and artwork. They sent the press kit to 180 tv set and radio stations besides as to the Associated Press and United Printing International. This led to widespread press coverage of both the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mirage Studios itself, creating a demand for the comic.[8] With their second upshot, Eastman and Laird's Turtles comic began a quick ascension to success, bringing in accelerate orders of xv,000 copies, 5 times the initial print run of the offset issue. This earned Eastman and Laird a profit of $2,000 each and immune them to go total-time comic book creators.[vii]

The Turtles phenomenon saw the duo invited to their first comics convention at the tenth annual Atlanta Fantasy Fair in 1984, where they mingled with notable comic creators like Larry Niven, Forrest J Ackerman and Fred Hembeck.[7] [11]

Their fifth result of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was released in November 1985, and was downsized to the more common American comics-format and size. The previous iv issues were also reprinted in this size and format with new colored covers. Also in 1985, Solson Publications released How to Describe Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Solson would follow this up with the six-issue Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Authorized Martial Arts Training Manual too every bit ane outcome of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teach Karate volume in 1987.[ commendation needed ]

Licensing [edit]

Mirage's Turtles comic led to a widening media presence for the heroes. Eastman and Laird began to widely merchandise their holding. Dark Equus caballus Miniatures produced a set up of 15 lead figurines for function-playing gamers and collectors, Palladium Books produced a function-playing game featuring the Turtles, and First Comics reprinted in four volumes the first eleven problems as colour trade paperback collections.[8]

Palladium'south office-playing game brought the Turtles to the attention of licensing agent Mark Freedman and the Turtles miracle took off, with the diverse characters shortly actualization on T-shirts, Halloween masks, mugs, and other paraphernalia.[12] A five-part televised cartoon mini-series based on the Turtles debuted in December 1987.[13] The half-hour episodes were produced by Osamu Yoshioka and the animation was directed by Yoshikatsu Kasai from scripts by David Wise and Patti Howeth. The mini-series was successful, leading to a full series, with the mini-serial forming the first season. The series had a 9-year, 10-season, 193-episode run. Bob Burden writes:

within days of information technology airing it was apparent that the TMNT would prove as every bit popular for the television audience as information technology had been for the comic readers. From there, Surge Licensing formed an unstoppable creative marketing powerhouse that set a new standard of excellence in the licensing and merchandising industries.[8]

In January 1988, Eastman and Laird visited Playmates Toys, who wished to market action figures based on the comic book and animated cartoon serial, farther cementing the Turtles' place in history and making Eastman and Laird extremely successful.[7]

Multimedia [edit]

Multiple other Turtles comics, toys, books, games, and other merchandising items have afterwards appeared, overseen and sometimes fully created by Eastman and Laird. Among these are 5 live-action films: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 (1993), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), with Eastman making a cursory cameo in the latter.[14] Iv more television series were also created: Ninja Turtles: The Adjacent Mutation (1997), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), in which Eastman wrote the fifth-season episode "Lone Rat and Cubs", and Ascension of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There was also an blithe feature picture show, TMNT (2007).

Eastman and Laird parting ways [edit]

Creative differences began to strain Eastman and Laird's partnership. In an interview in 2002, Laird noted that the two hadn't spent much fourth dimension together since 1993. Eastman moved to California while Laird stayed in Massachusetts.[ citation needed ]

On June i, 2000, Laird and the Mirage Group purchased Eastman's ownership in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property and corporations.[ citation needed ] Eastman wanted to motility on to other projects. The buyout was completed on March one, 2008.[xv]

In 2011, Eastman began working with the TMNT series again as a writer and creative person on the IDW comic series, as well as an adviser on the 2014 reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film serial. Eastman is said to have a cameo in the film as a doctor, and has voiced the character Ice Cream Kitty in the 2012 CGI series.

In Dec 2019, issue #100 of IDW Publishing's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic serial featured a teaser advertizing for an upcoming comic project titled The Concluding Ronin in which the prospect of a possible reunion and cooperation between Eastman and Laird was held out.[16] The project was confirmed in April 2020, with a TBD release date sometime in the summer,[17] and was subsequently released in October 2020.[18]

Tundra [edit]

Foundation [edit]

While co-managing Mirage Studios, Eastman and Laird oftentimes spoke of the difficulties in maintaining creative control of their work. Eastman decided to address this problem by using his ain personal knowledge and connections to help other creators. Approaching Laird with his ideas, Eastman was met with a less than positive response:

[M]y first idea was to expand the publishing arm of Mirage. But the more sane of the two partners said, "What are y'all, basics?" ...[west]eastward were working pretty much full time just on the Turtles. Pete told me, and I agreed, that he didn't want to have anything else on his brain in terms of publishing at the time. And so with his approving, I started Tundra Publishing.[7]

Intentions and output [edit]

Eastman founded Tundra Publishing in 1990, to realize personal and other projects. He joined with other comic creators like Scott McCloud and Dave Sim to form the Creator'south Bill of Rights. Eastman felt obligated to expand it across theory and into practice, providing a forum for comics creators to work for a publisher while maintaining buying of their work.[7]

Rick Veitch has written that:

Ane of the plans was for Tundra to human activity equally an exoskeleton for an existing self-publisher; offer marketing muscle, college product values, printing costs paid and a page rate upwardly forepart for half the action no strings fastened.[19]

Moreover, Eastman provided a forum for Marvel and DC creators to work on projects that they could not otherwise realize:

Basically, I'd meet them at conventions and they'd said they're stuck doing Spider-Man, they had a wife and a kid at domicile, and they had to brand ends meet. Merely if they actually had a chance, they said they'd really exercise this [at Tundra] and I'd hear this repeatedly. So, I went back to those artists because I had the money and said I'd give them the risk. I asked them what they'd like to practice. They could pick their dream projects that they'd wanna practice and I would provide the funding so that they could survive and they didn't have to do Spider-Man for a twelvemonth and I'll fund the projects and I but wanted to make my money back from the profits to go along my company going.[20]

Projects (partly) realized by Tundra included: Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz's Big Numbers, Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell, Moore and Melinda Gebbie'due south Lost Girls (these last ii original serialised in Stephen R. Bissette's Taboo anthology, which was as well part-published by Tundra),[21] The Crow, Mike Allred'south Madman and Dave McKean'southward Cages, and others.[xx]

Eastman initially thought that his experience at Mirage gave him "a pretty good grasp of what a publisher should exist, and what a publisher needs to do," although he swiftly realized that "Tundra was non like publishing the Turtles."[7]

Difficulties [edit]

As office of Eastman'due south designs for Tundra were to produce personal projects of a more than developed nature than the Turtles-oriented Mirage was geared towards,[22] [ citation needed ] this saw Tundra fitting in the dubious middle-ground, as their intended production sabbatum somewhat awkwardly between the comic shop and the volume shop. Eastman says that he "idea that the audience was a lot larger than it really was," citing his personal assumption that readers would "grow up through X-Men and detect The Sandman and so Dark Knight and Watchmen and across." The relatively new in-roads of comics and graphic novels into bookshops worked confronting Tundra at the time.[vii]

Eastman swiftly became aware that Tundra and the Turtles differed considerably, not least since the latter was successful enough to effectively run itself, with a few 'nudges' "to keep it moving along." Tundra, on the other hand, dealt in new backdrop, which required "building from the ground upwards," and was "a lot more work" than Eastman had anticipated, growing far too quickly for comfort, and requiring considerable injections of time and coin, rather than beingness assisting.[7]

Speaking in 1992/93, Eastman was optimistic that the company had "finally reached the betoken where [it had] slowed up plenty... to be giving individual projects the time and attention they require[d];" Shortly thereafter, Tundra was bought out by Kitchen Sink Press, closing its (solo) doors afterwards simply three years, losing Eastman between $9 and $14 million.[vii] [xx]

Aftermath [edit]

Despite heavy fiscal losses, Eastman remained philosophical about his work with Tundra. In a 2007 interview, he drew the analogy that:

Doing the Turtles was like going to college and doing Tundra Publishing was like getting my primary's degree. So I learned a lot with the Turtles and I learned the rest of what I needed to know... when I did Tundra.[20]

He made mention of the multiple award nominations Tundra received during its first and 2nd years, including Harvey Awards and Eisner Awards, just noted that despite critical acclaim, the company was not making coin on its titles, and had to end production. He noted that Tundra was i of the before creator-owned companies, "before Epitome actually took off" and before Dark Horse Comics' "Legends line."[20]

Eastman admitted that Tundra tried to do besides much besides quickly, and ran into difficulties accordingly.[7] He also suggested that "[due north]ot one book made any money".[xx] He also believed that part of Tundra's downfall was tied to his offering Marvel and DC employees the risk to piece of work on creator-owned and personal projects. He has stated in an interview that:

In my personal opinion, nosotros took abroad and so many creams of the crops [sic] artists similar Dave McKean, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, Mike Allred... [that] the ii big companies had the power to go to the key distributors and made them short sell, under transport and ____ing bury these guys because now that Dave McKean is doing stuff at Tundra, the large publishers were losing coin because Dave's not doing Arkham Asylum ii and Alan Moore'southward not doing Watchmen 2, he'due south not doing Swamp Thing, simply instead he's doing From Hell with Tundra.... Basically, we got the raw end of the deal.[20]

Heavy Metal [edit]

Kevin Eastman had been a longtime fan of the science fiction and fantasy mag, much of whose content was translated from the French, and appeared in the original Métal Hurlant publication of which Heavy Metal is merely the American-licensed incarnation. He cites the publication as bringing Richard Corben to his attention as the "second greatest influence" on him as an creative person, later on Jack Kirby.[7] He saw in its pages European art which had non been previously seen in the U.s., too equally an underground comix sensibility that all the same "wasn't as harsh or farthermost as some of the underground comix – but... definitely intended for an older readership."[seven]

Discovering Heavy Metal had been put upwards for sale, and with 1 of Tundra's stated aims, to bring a more adult sensibility (and mature, adult readers) to comics, overlapping with the magazine's target audience, Eastman decided that Heavy Metallic was "the last piece of the puzzle", and looked into purchasing information technology. Noting that:

In my life, too many things have happened in a weird, sort of shit-luck sort of manner,[7]

Eastman purchased the magazine in Jan 1992.[vii]

Despite the audiences for Heavy Metal and Tundra's intended product (also equally more mature-themed comics in general) being of a broadly similar demographic, Eastman recognized from the start that "nearly of the audience who read Heavy Metallic buy information technology off the newsstands; they're not going into comic book stores," and stated early that his intention was to produce "numerous crossovers from the cutting edge of comics creators" to betrayal the magazine'southward readership not just to the comics manufacture, "but anything from the visual media that can cross over."[7]

Eastman as well attempted to bring some European hardcover comics to America, using Heavy Metallic to help serialize them and both defray the costs and boost readership. Initial involvement, withal, was "fairly cool."[7]

Eastman sold the mag to digital and music veteran David Boxenbaum and film producer Jeff Krelitz in Jan 2014. Eastman continued to serve equally publisher of the mag until 2020,[23] and is a minority investor in the new Heavy Metal.[24]

Other Works [edit]

Aside from his work on multiple Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles projects, and as publisher of Tundra Publishing, Eastman created Fistful of Blood, a blackness and white graphic novel featuring a blend of influences from Spaghetti Western and horror. The book featured art past Simon Bisley and was published by Heavy Metal.

Eastman has acted in a small number of films, including Guns of El Chupacabra in 1997 and The Rock n' Roll Cops in 2003. He likewise had a supporting role in the 2004 Troma moving picture Tales from the Crapper. Before that, he had a cameo in the 2000 sequel to The Toxic Avenger called Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV. and had a small function in the commencement TMNT movie every bit a garbage collector. He too wrote one episode of the animated children's series Corn & Peg.

He was the subject of an interview in the documentary films Independents, and Turtle Ability: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.[25]

Kevin spends most of his creative time working on a new TMNT serial with IDW Publishing, and editing Heavy Metal. He has partnered with writer, director and producer Robert Rodriguez to develop a new series of Heavy Metal inspired blithe and alive activeness films.[ commendation needed ]

Art drove [edit]

Eastman purchased his first piece of original artwork ("a couple of pages that were penciled past Michael Gilded and inked past Bob McLeod for Marvel Comics' Howard the Duck") at the Atlanta Fantasy Fair, the convention he and Laird attended in 1984.[7] Collecting subsequently became "quite an addiction" for him, and combined with his experiences in getting his, and others', comics work recognised as "Art," led to him founding the Words & Pictures Museum,[vii] which operated every bit a brick-and-mortar museum from 1992 to 1999.[26] [27]

Personal life [edit]

Eastman has ii sons, with the younger one named Shane.[28] He was married to Julie Strain from 1995 to 2006.

Eastman married actress and producer Courtney Carr on Oct 5, 2013. They live in San Diego with his son Shane, and pet dachshunds.[29] [30]

References [edit]

  1. ^ McGill, Douglas C. (December 25, 1988). "DYNAMIC DUO: Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird; Turning Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Into a Monster". The New York Times . Retrieved August 7, 2010.
  2. ^ Inkpot Honour
  3. ^ Greenberg, Harvey R. (April 15, 1990). "Simply How Powerful Are Those Turtles?". The New York Times . Retrieved August seven, 2010.
  4. ^ Mcdermott, Deborah (December 8, 2012). "'Ninja Turtles' artist shares 'heed-blowing' story". Seacoast Online . Retrieved February 24, 2013.
  5. ^ My Superhero, Jack Kirby. By Kevin Eastman
  6. ^ "Archived re-create" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 2, 2011. Retrieved Baronial 18, 2012. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy every bit title (link)
  7. ^ a b c d e f thousand h i j k l m due north o p q r s t Wiater, Stanley & Bissette, Stephen R. (ed.s) Comic Book Rebels: Conversations with the Creators of the New Comics (Donald I. Fine, Inc. 1993) ISBN 1-55611-355-2
  8. ^ a b c d Bob Brunt'south Mysterymen Presskit: Kevin Eastman. Accessed April 22, 2008
  9. ^ ComicBookDb: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1. Accessed April 22, 2008
  10. ^ Pages from the Press Kit can be seen hither Archived May 12, 2006, at the Wayback Car on Eastman'southward Heavy Metal website.
  11. ^ "David Merrill The Atlanta Fantasy Fair. Accessed April 22, 2008". Archived from the original on May 19, 2015. Retrieved Apr 22, 2008.
  12. ^ Don Markstein's Toonopedia: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". Accessed April 22, 2008
  13. ^ IMDb: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1987) (mini). Accessed April 22, 2008
  14. ^ "My TMNT Cameo - Kevin Eastman Studios". Fan.kevineastmanstudios.cyberspace . Retrieved June 7, 2016. [ permanent dead link ]
  15. ^ the 5th turtle: A last release [ permanent dead link ]
  16. ^ "Urban center at War: The Stop". Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #100 (IDW Publishing)
  17. ^ "Newsarama | GamesRadar+".
  18. ^ "IDW Publishing".
  19. ^ Jeff Smith, "Remembering the Self-Publishing Movement: Rick Veitch, part 1", February 17, 2008 Archived September 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed Apr 22, 2008
  20. ^ a b c d eastward f m "Talking to Kevin Eastman ane: Turtle Days, Turtle Nights" by Benjamin Ong Pang Kean, Baronial 31, 2007. Accessed September 25, 2013
  21. ^ From Hell would continue to be published by Kitchen Sink Press after Tundra's demise, and both From Hell and Lost Girls are at present published by Top Shelf Comix.
  22. ^ Eastman notes, that the initial blackness and white comic was considerably more 'adult' than what followed.
  23. ^ "How Kevin Eastman Establish Out He Was No Longer Publisher of Heavy Metal Magazine". March 5, 2020.
  24. ^ "From Print to Producer: Heavy Metallic Magazine Finds Buyers and New Time to come in Hollywood (EXCLUSIVE)". January 17, 2014.
  25. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on Apr two, 2015. Retrieved March 26, 2015. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  26. ^ Dean, Michael. "Words & Pictures Museum Comes to a Virtual End". The Comics Journal #212 (May 1999), pp. sixteen–17.
  27. ^ "About the Massachusetts Lath of Library Commissioners - Email Distribution Lists". Archived from the original on July 10, 2012.
  28. ^ Src='https://World wide web.gravatar.com/Avatar/D41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e?s=80, <img Course='guest_author_avatar Avatar' Way='width:20px;height:20px'; d=mm; Alimurung, r=g'/>Gendy (December 20, 2012). "How Kevin Eastman Invented the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". LA Weekly . Retrieved July nine, 2021.
  29. ^ https://www.facebook.com/kevin.eastman.378/info?tab=page_info[ user-generated source ]
  30. ^ "Archived re-create". Archived from the original on March 31, 2015. Retrieved November vii, 2014. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links [edit]

  • Twitter business relationship
  • Official site
  • Deviantart page
  • Kevin Eastman at IMDb
  • Gary Groth interviews Kevin Eastman—PDF download (270kB) from the Heavy Metallic site; this piece appeared originally in The Comics Journal No. 202
  • Official Heavy Metallic website
  • Kevin Eastman interview from Newsarama

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