Jim Lawson (comics) explained

Jim Lawson
Birth Date:19 February 1960
Nationality:American
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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]

Career

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. [John Jackson Miller|Miller, John Jackson]
  2. Lawson, Jim (October 22, 2009) "The Sale of the TMNTs". Boxburning, Blogger.
  3. News: Past and Future Meet at HVRHS's 75th Anniversary . The Lakeville Journal . The Lakeville Journal Company . Lakeville, Connecticut . A9 . September 25, 2014 . February 23, 2021 . English .
  4. Lawson, Jim (January 25, 2013). "DRAGONFLY: An adventure tale of dinosauric proportions!". Kickstarter.
  5. http://www.scottmccloud.com/4-inventions/bill/index.html "The Creator's Bill of Rights"
  6. Lawson, Jim (February 2019). "Dragonfly and Hellride". Kickstarter.