| Jim Lawson | |
| Birth Date: | 19 February 1960 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Write: | y |
| Art: | y |
| Pencil: | y |
| Ink: | y |
| Letter: | y |
| Notable Works: | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| Collaborators: | Peter Laird |
Jim Lawson (born February 19, 1960)[1] is an American comic book writer and artist best known for his work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. Lawson created the Rat King and also co-created the series Planet Racers with Peter Laird. He is also the writer/artist of the black-and white-comic series Paleo: Tales of the Late Cretaceous. For more than 20 years he was a writer and artist of TMNT comics, but in 2009 he announced that he would depart from TMNT[2] following Peter Laird's sale of the property to Viacom.
Lawson graduated from Housatonic Valley Regional High School.[3]
In 2013 Lawson launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new project, a graphic novel series called Dragonfly.[4]
Lawson was a participant in the 1988 drafting of the Creators' Bill of Rights.[5]
On February 19, 2019, Lawson launched a Kickstarter campaign for his independent graphic novel and trade paperback, Dragonfly and Hellride. The campaign offered a reward for $1500, to the buyer who received the book's property rights.[6]