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This includes Steve Lavigne, who once owned a comic book shop and art gallery called Shellback Artworks in Wells, Maine, that closed in 2016, and Massachusetts local Jim Lawson, who worked on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and also co-created the series Planet Racers with Laird. The Seacoast and New England connections don't stop there, with other TMNT contributors later brought onto the project also having ties to the area. More: Chicago has the 'bean,' will Dover have a dove? Waterfront park art ideas pitched. One year, more than 7,500 people showed up to Jetpack Comics for the chance to meet the TMNT creators, DiBernardo recalled.Īfter the first issue came out, the creators moved around until they set up shop in Northampton, Massachusetts. There was several Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games constructed from Konami, both for home game platforms such as. From the time they burst onto the comic scene in the mid 1980s. Then there's the cartoon and the Archie Comics line, which is geared towards kids."Įastman and Laird have made special appearances at Jetpack Comics through the years at its Free Comic Book Day events. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games is really a action game where the player can control from any of the four turtles: Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo. "The original TMNT was gritty and geared towards a more mature reader," DiBernardo said. "Kevin and Peter loved comics like Heavy Metal and the original was influenced by that. DiBernardo said there are really two version of TMNT, the edgy ones in their first comics and the more kid-friendly version fans of all ages know and love today.