Big Ol' Kevin Eastman/Heavy Metal Update
 

I wonder why he hasn't commented on the TMNT sale yet. Is he really so emotionally detached from the property?

I would say so, even though it isn't really my place to speak for him. He sold his share YEARS ago; so I would imagine that if he wasn't all that concerned with it then, he certainly isn't now. What happened with his marriage? I read that he and Julie divorced-- anyone know anything about that?

I don't know what there is for him to say about it, really.

Well, you answered your own question. The details are in his blog if you go through the archives. He's been with a woman named Pam for at least a couple years now.

He and Julie have not been together for a LONG time. Pam, the woman he is with now, is the sweetest woman on the planet. I love her to death.

Picture anyone?

Of Pam? There are bunches in Kevin's blog archives.

http://www.heavymetal.com/images/cha...m_birthday.jpg

Kinda cuts off weird cause there was a sparkly happy birthday thing at the top. heres the link to the blog entry

http://www.heavymetal.com/index.php?id=1883

Ha ha, I see what you're talking about.

I'm partial to Julie appearance-wise, but happy for them nonetheless.

Well, one is an adult film star, the other is not...

Point taken. ;)

Well if something I had co-created was sold off to a big corporation to do whatever they liked with then I'd definitely have a thing or two to say on the matter.

Well, seems to me that Muraki-Wolf-Swenson did that, WITHOUT even owning the TMNT. They did what THEY wanted. Not necessarily what Eastman and Laird wanted.

Eastman and Laird had slightly different ideas regarding directions the turtles should and shouldn't go. As far as Eastman is concerned, there probably isn't too big of a difference between Laird owning them and Viacom owning them. Eastman and Laird started out with the same vision, and then seemed to deviate away from one another to a great extent.

Oroku CJJ, Contrary to Peter's later/current attitude, he and Eastman did approve the scripts in the old cartoon.

I see kevo has a certain type of girl he likes eh? heheh

I don't think Kevin has ever put as much stock in the Turtles as Peter. To Peter, they were a chance for him to tell his stories, and he held them to a certain artistic integrity, although the pressure of keeping everything in check with that vision was apparently exhausting.

But with Kevin, it seems like he's always thought, "Oh, this little joke of mine made us millions of dollars. That's really cool. And we made some pretty good stories with it. On to the art I care about now." The Turtles just seemed to be fortunate and amusing in his mind, but I really think he was more than willing to let anyone experiment with them, be it Fred Wolf or other artists or what have you. Nothing lofty in his mind about them.