I’m happy to reveal my upcoming variant cover for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #11, which will hit stands this July from IDW— you can reserve one through your local comics shop.
This was such a fulfilling side quest—as a third-grader in Alabama, I stumbled into TMNT in the months just before all the licensing and cartoon launched in 1987. After grabbing a one-off TMNT martial arts guide, I spotted some Eastman/Laird/Lawson/Bode issues right around the “Return to New York” storyline. This was the first comic that actually looked dirty and gritty to my young eyes— really, I was seeing the cartoonist’s hand at work for the first time. Changed my life! I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Kevin Eastman (who’s a fan of our work on March) several times over the years, and he’s always been a kind and generous fellow to me.