35 Years to the month after launching TMNT,
I’m thrilled to be self publishing again!!!
“I have a series coming out in May that I’m self publishing called DRAWING BLOOD. It’s based on a character that’s kind of semi-autobiographical but also a more complete take on a completely fictional true story of a guy in this comic book universe that created these characters and had some success but lost his mojo. It’s kind of a “Spinal Tap” meets “Breaking Bad”. It’s kind of a crazy comic series we’re publishing. The first issue comes out in May of this year and it runs for 12 issues. So fans can look forward to that.”
– excerpt from a recent interview with Comic Lounge
In May, Kevin Eastman Studios will begin self publishing by releasing a serialized Drawing Blood comic series and a one shot of the Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls with much, much more of both to come…
I am writing to ask you to draw your local comic shops attention to this month’s Diamond PREVIEWS , which features a four-page interview talking about my getting back into self publishing 35 years after TMNT launched (May 1984!). And much more importantly – the ordering information for Drawing Blood – Spilled Ink and the Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls.
My co-creator, David, describes these projects as follows:
” DRAWING BLOOD is a grown-up comic about the roller coaster of a life in show business (specifically comics). The ambition is no less than to make the “All That Jazz” or “8 1/2” of comics. DRAWING BLOOD will be ongoing, every month, with a new “arc” every four months. The Story is co-created by Kevin and me, David Avallone, script by me art by Ben Bishop “flashback” art by Kevin, “hallucination” art by Troy Little, colors by Brittany Peer and and Tomi Varga, and lettering by Taylor Esposito.”
“The RADICALLY REARRANGED RONIN RAGDOLLS is the comic-within-the-comic: Drawing Blood is about a comics creator and the RAGDOLLS are his creation. We’re releasing the “special origin issue”, a 32 page special, the same day as DRAWING BLOOD #1. Story by Kevin and me, script by David, art by Kevin and Troy, color by Tomi, letters by Taylor. We have 5 variant covers of the RRRR special – by Kevin, Freddie Williams, Stan Saki, Troy Little and Ben Bishop”
