But I find a copy of Issues 8 and 9, first print, for a decent price. The first few issues were either way expensive or on their, like, 27th printing, haha. The next time I was at one of my local shops I see some Turtles comics. He told me it was originally a black-and-white comic made by a couple of guys, not Marvel or DC. A kid in my art class told me about this book called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! This was right after the cartoon had come out so I’d heard of it, but I knew it was something for little kids. So yeah, it’s seventh grade, and I'm just getting into comics. We’ll get into that later! Oh wait, it’s later now. When was the first time you encountered TMNT? Then I put out a comic through Action Lab, with writer Mark Bertolini, called Bigfoot Frankenstein, am currently working on a graphic novel called Tad Caldwell and the Monster Cult, and have another book with Mark lined up called HappyLand! that just got picked up by Scout Comics! I put out two graphic novels of that title and then later put out books called Return of the Lovin’ Dead and HiDE and then wrote and drew some children’s books for Pelican Publishing. So that got me into reading indie comics which got me into making my own! In 2008 I self-published The Adventures of Dexter Breakfast through Diamond. “Cerebus?” I’d heard of that guy! He was in one of those black-and-white Ninja Turtles I’d gotten years earlier! But we’ll get more into that later. He gave me the Cerebus Guide To Self-Publishing, a book about making and putting out your own comics. After several polite rejections, I ran into a friend of mine that I used to make comics with in high school. I still wanted to do my own comics but I thought it’d be cool to draw Legion comics for DC or maybe X-Men or Spidey for Marvel so I started sending in samples. Several years later I became friends with a local artist named Derec Donovan who was working for Marvel and DC. I didn’t know where to look and was too shy to ask around at comic shops. I wanted to draw comics but had no idea how. I continued to do so in college but didn’t really know what to do with them so I just stopped. I drew my own comic books in high school, sometimes single issues, sometimes graphic novels (I made them in hardcover sketchbooks). Which led me to one of my favorite artists of all time: Keith Giffen! Giffen’s Legion work, plus other comics like Watchmen, and Hard Boiled by Geof Darrow and Frank Miller, made me start drawing my own comic books in high school.īut before all of that, when I was still in 7th Grade, this kid Chad in my art class started telling me about this comic called T eenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. My stepdad had a bunch of old Adventure Comics from the ’60s featuring Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, I loved that stuff and then got into the Legion comics from the ’80s and '90s. I got them randomly as a kid but really got into them when I was around 12-13. As far as actual comic books, that didn’t happen until seventh grade. When I was a kid I mostly read comic strips and would later get the book collections of those strips, either from bookstores or ordering them through school. I don’t know who this “Firstly, what” guy is, but if he’s trying to impersonate me he must be pretty cool! As far as where I’m from, rumor has it I’m from New Orleans… This means that candy isn't JUST up for grabs, but comics are as well! Several comic book publishers are getting in on the festivities throughout the month, and IDW is not excluded!Īs a matter of act, IDW artist Vernon Smith ( Bigfoot Frankenstein) is bringing spooky season to the Ninja Turtles with a one-shot special dropping this week! Get an exclusive first look at the process behind Vernon's cover for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Saturday Morning Adventures Halloween Special in this week's installment of " Get Graphic."įirstly, what is your name and where did you hail from?
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