Kevin Eastman talks turtles, Highlander, and Heavy Metal

[Raph's Girl]

Suicidegirls.com has a new interview with Kevin Eastman. In it he talks about his new movie (Highlander:The Search for Vengeance), TMNT (which he still owns and gets revenue from!), and Heavy Metal

http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/Kevin+Eastman/

The most interesting portion of the interview:

DRE: Did you say that you still own the Turtles? I thought you sold the Turtles?

KE:No. That seems to be a continuing, on-going question and it’s due to whatever Mirage is putting out. When I started working on the second Heavy Metal movie and Heavy Metal as a company started growing the Turtles were really in a sleeping period. I told Peter that I wanted to spend more time with Heavy Metal and he said, “Why don’t we do a deal where I’ll buy out your creative control?” I still retain an ownership in the property and I get checks every quarter. Why wouldn’t I, I drew the first Turtles, and I’ve been with that property for 20 some odd years. So we reached an agreement that he would take over creative control. But I still own the Turtles and I still get money and I’m grateful for that because I’ve got bills to pay. A lot of people say, “Why did you sell out on the Turtles?” I say, “First, **** you I didn’t.” They are still very much my characters and whatever is done with them, hopefully Peter pulls together the right people to put together the vision that he and I created together.