Drawing Blood – Spilled Ink and the Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls hit comic shops with enormously positive feedback from stores and customers alike.  Many stores ran out of stock pretty much immediately and are already going back to Diamond Distribution to place more orders.  Diamond have placed two reorders for these AWESOME books. We received so many AWESOME reviews for the story the art and the quality of the print job – the paper is of the utmost quality.

We are please to be able to offer a complete set, comprising all (7) full color comics here for $28

We also have the Comics and Ponies variant by Chase Alexander in stock.  This print run was limited to just 500 copies and features a retro-styled, throw-back Konami arcade game parody. This variant is $20

Check them all out here or go back to your LCS and ask them to get them for you and you can add Drawing Blood to your monthly pull at your LCS too.

Signed on the front with a wonderful TMNT headsketch remarque in black ink.

In the spring of 1984, a strange new comic book sat beside cash registers in select shops, too big to fit in the racks, and too weird to ignore. Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles presented a completely original breed of super heroes. It was too bizarre, too crazy. It broke all the rules and should never have worked. Until it sold out. Again and again and again. For thirty years. Now, peek under the shell and see how this so-called “happy accident” defied every naysayer to become one of the most popular and beloved franchises in the world.

Created by our great friends at FAUXPOP MEDIA

PLUS PLUS the final pen and ink covers by Kevin for issues 2 and 3.  These exquisite covers were created in 2017 and the books published in 2018.

All these works are shipped from Kevin Eastman Studios in Northampton, MA

See all of these stunning works in the Art Department now!

Yup – it was on April 16, 1984 that the printer delivered the very first copies of our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Memorialized on my handmade publishing calendar and stacked high. Check out the business cards of Executive Art Directors/ Kevin B. Eastman and Peter A. Laird

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These books, written with David Avallone with an awesome array of cover variants by top talent including Troy Little, Freddie Williams II, Stan Sakai and of course Ben Bishop and myself will be available at your local comic shops.  BUT – you need to make sure your shop owners know they need to order these and that means we need your help in letting them know to do so.  These are available NOW in the most recent Diamond PREVIEWS catalog. Please share this with your shop owners and friends and ensure that our new venture in self publishing is as successful at the TMNT were in 1984.

Below is an excerpt from a massive 4 page interview they conducted with me recently – this also includes a link to the catalog order codes for each of the Drawing Blood books AND the Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls.

Excerpt follows: One evening in 1984, Kevin Eastman and friend Peter Laird brainstormed the idea of a team of martial arts turtles after Eastman sketched a turtle wearing a mask and wielding martial arts weapons. Drawing upon the comics of the past and the 1984-present, they created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… their homage to everything they liked about comics, including the works of Jack Kirby and more specifically, Frank Miller’s Daredevil.

35 years later, the TMNT (as their mile-long moniker was shortened to) are a worldwide phenomenon… toys, cartoons, live-action movies. And for their co-creator, Kevin Eastman, its been a long, strange, and wonderful trip indeed. Drawing upon his long history in the comics biz, and his own personal experiences shepherding the TMNT from cult indie sensation to household names, Kevin has launched his own publishing company, Kevin Eastman Studios, to tell his story… sort of…

This book is signed on the cover in gold metallic ink with a head sketch Remarque  BUT we are also enclosing an additional SIGNED Print from Kevins collection.  The book and print ship rolled.  We will select the Bonus Print you receive