Kevin Brooks Eastman was born on May 30,1962 and is an American comic book artist and writer best known for co-creating the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Peter Laird.
27 Facts About Kevin Eastman
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Kevin Eastman attended Westbrook High School in Westbrook, Maine, with comic book illustrator Steve Lavigne.
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Kevin Eastman grew up a comic book fan, with Jack Kirby as his idol and Kamandi as his favorite title of his.
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Kevin Eastman met a waitress who was attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst and followed her to Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Kevin Eastman wrote the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode "Lone Rat and Cubs".
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Kevin Eastman co-wrote the 2016 stand-alone TMNT short "Pizza Friday".
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In 2011, Kevin Eastman began working with the TMNT series again as a writer and artist on the IDW comic series, as well as an adviser on the 2014 reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series.
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Kevin 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.
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Kevin Eastman decided to address this problem by using his own personal knowledge and connections to help other creators.
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Kevin Eastman founded Tundra Publishing in 1990, to realize personal and other projects.
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Kevin Eastman joined with other comic creators like Scott McCloud and Dave Sim to form the Creator's Bill of Rights.
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Kevin Eastman felt obligated to expand it beyond theory and into practice, providing a forum for comics creators to work for a publisher while maintaining ownership of their work.
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Kevin Eastman made mention of the multiple award nominations Tundra received during its first and second years, including Harvey Awards and Eisner Awards, but noted that despite critical acclaim, the company was not making money on its titles, and had to cease production.
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Kevin Eastman admitted that Tundra tried to do too much too quickly, and ran into difficulties accordingly.
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Kevin Eastman suggested that "[n]ot one book made any money".
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Kevin Eastman believed that part of Tundra's downfall was tied to his offering Marvel and DC employees the chance to work on creator-owned and personal projects.
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Kevin Eastman had been a longtime fan of the science fiction and fantasy magazine, much of whose content was translated from the French, and appeared in the original Metal Hurlant publication of which Heavy Metal is only the American-licensed incarnation.
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Kevin Eastman cites the publication as bringing Richard Corben to his attention as the "second greatest influence" on him as an artist, after Jack Kirby.
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Kevin Eastman attempted to bring some European hardcover comics to America, using Heavy Metal to help serialize them and both defray the costs and boost readership.
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Kevin Eastman sold the magazine to digital and music veteran David Boxenbaum and film producer Jeff Krelitz in January 2014.
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Kevin Eastman continued to serve as publisher of the magazine until 2020, and is a minority investor in the new Heavy Metal.
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Kevin Eastman has acted in a small number of films, including Guns of El Chupacabra in 1997 and The Rock n' Roll Cops in 2003.
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Kevin Eastman had a supporting role in the 2004 Troma film Tales from the Crapper.
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Kevin Eastman was the subject of an interview in the documentary films Independents, and Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Kevin Eastman purchased his first piece of original artwork at the Atlanta Fantasy Fair, the convention he and Laird attended in 1984.
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Kevin Eastman was previously married to model and actress Julie Strain from 1995 to 2006.
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Kevin Eastman married actress and producer Courtney Carr on October 5,2013.