Any of you ever met any TMNT artists?

*discordiatookie* · 02-04-2006, 05:01 PM

Hi! first off i'd like to say i'm a newbie, so hi! i'm a 22 year old guy from scotland and was wondering if anybody's met any of the tmnt artists?

being from scotland, and not being very rich in that i can fly to every comic convention, i aint gonna get alot of chances to meet any, but i have met D'israeli, who did tales #10, and a frontispiece for another tales... he is a friend of the owner of a comicbook shop i go to regularly in aberdeen, and the first time i met him he was just hanging out and showing Mike, the owner some of the stuff he was working on on his laptop. i went in and mike, knowing that i'm a turtle fan (he holds back all the comics for me and sometimes finds me some cool stuff) said to me that there's someone he'd like me to meet and ushered me over to meet D'israeli. i had'nt even heard of this guy, and he opened up a file on his laptop and there was a page from Tales #10 - this was around the time of tales #5 or 6 (I cant remember but it was the day the comic came out and D'israeli had just dome a letter heading of splinter which he's signed for me, just a speechbubble with his sig - so that'll be a clue, i dont have the comic in front of me...) - and i hadnt even an inkling of what was to come, and it showed Don on a computer with the 'pi' golem lying on a table ( i cant remember what page this was)! i was well excited! meeting a TMNT artist just out of the blue, not even at a signing!
Anyway, he gave me a sketch of Donatello which i was pretty well made up about, as you can imagine! since then i've met him at the comic shop again (asylum books and games its called), this time at a signing and he gave me a splinter sketch, which is pretty awesome, its of him meditating, legs crossed, the lot! then just before christmas, mike said to me that d'israeli would send me a high quality print of a page from tales #10 (i cant get original artwork cos its all digitally done...) so i got page 10 (counting from when the story starts, missing the intro) where Don somersaults over the Golem! its awesome! cost me 30 bucks like...

so anyway, sorry this is so long, but i've been wanting to share this with fellow tmnt fans for awhile now! cheers!

Mobius One · 02-04-2006, 06:57 PM

I met Peter Laird, Jim Lawson, Michael Dooney, Eric Talbot, and Dan Berger. They were all really cool, especially Peter Laird. Michael Dooney was a real dick though.

*Katie* · 02-04-2006, 10:53 PM

One of the other boards I post on is frequented by one of the new show storyboard artists. (well, when they are not working) He has shared some of his sketches with us (I saved a few from I, Monster that were really sweet!)

He is a really nice and interesting guy to talk to

*VaughnMichael* · 02-05-2006, 01:26 AM

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Originally Posted by DemoGoblin87

I met Peter Laird, Jim Lawson, Michael Dooney, Eric Talbot, and Dan Berger. They were all really cool, especially Peter Laird. Michael Dooney was a real dick though.

was michael dooney really a jerk or are you just kidding? I wrote him a really nice letter a year or so ago and he never responded...I thought maybe he thought I was wierd telling him about how much I love his work...but maybe he's just a jerk.
-Putrescent

MikesPizzaShack · 02-11-2006, 10:51 AM

well i tried to meet peter at wizard world 05 but no1 knew when he was gonna show up and the ppl at the booth he was supposed to be at were real jerks.....im still ticked i never got to meet him....and ill prob never get another chance again seeing how this was like his 2-3 time hes only been to a con since the 80's

Mobius One · 02-11-2006, 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Putrescent

was michael dooney really a jerk or are you just kidding? I wrote him a really nice letter a year or so ago and he never responded...I thought maybe he thought I was wierd telling him about how much I love his work...but maybe he's just a jerk.
-Putrescent

No, he was definitly a real dick.

Seurat · 02-11-2006, 05:49 PM

I've actually met Peter Laird at a comic convention and got him to autograph two TMNT comics... one of which was issue #1 of the latest Mirage series! Man, wish I'd had a portfolio of my art to show him...

*zkarlette* · 02-11-2006, 11:30 PM

I met Kevin Eastman on last years comic-con ,I was so excited I didn't know what to say.. specially cause it was my first time meeting any TMNT artist and he signed his artobiography for me with a little sketch

02-12-2006, 01:05 PM

I met Peter Laird and his boys twice. I still have yet to meet Kevin Eastman.

02-04-2006, 06:57 PM	#2
Mobius One Hench Mutant Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: US Posts: 411	I met Peter Laird, Jim Lawson, Michael Dooney, Eric Talbot, and Dan Berger. They were all really cool, especially Peter Laird. Michael Dooney was a real dick though. __________________ You can kill the Revolutionaries, But you can't kill the Revolution! www.worldskater224.deviantart.com -visit it! Formerly Demogoblin87...

02-04-2006, 10:53 PM	#3
Katie Just...way too serious. Join Date: May 2005 Location: purgatory Posts: 3,519	One of the other boards I post on is frequented by one of the new show storyboard artists. (well, when they are not working) He has shared some of his sketches with us (I saved a few from I, Monster that were really sweet!) He is a really nice and interesting guy to talk to __________________ THE WORLD IS JUST AWESOME

02-11-2006, 05:49 PM	#7
Seurat Foot Soldier Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 143	... I've actually met Peter Laird at a comic convention and got him to autograph two TMNT comics... one of which was issue #1 of the latest Mirage series! Man, wish I'd had a portfolio of my art to show him... __________________ Don: The perimeter's quiet. Leo: Yeah, a little too quiet. Don: Well that was easy. Leo: Yeah, a little too easy. Don: Look! It's Raph! Mike: Yeah, a little too Raph!

02-11-2006, 11:30 PM	#8
zkarlette Fashionably late Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: CA Posts: 4,146	I met Kevin Eastman on last years comic-con ,I was so excited I didn't know what to say.. specially cause it was my first time meeting any TMNT artist and he signed his artobiography for me with a little sketch __________________ "If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time" E.W

02-04-2006, 05:01 PM	#1
discordiatookie facehugger Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland Posts: 2,817	Any of you ever met any TMNT artists? Hi! first off i'd like to say i'm a newbie, so hi! i'm a 22 year old guy from scotland and was wondering if anybody's met any of the tmnt artists? being from scotland, and not being very rich in that i can fly to every comic convention, i aint gonna get alot of chances to meet any, but i have met D'israeli, who did tales #10, and a frontispiece for another tales... he is a friend of the owner of a comicbook shop i go to regularly in aberdeen, and the first time i met him he was just hanging out and showing Mike, the owner some of the stuff he was working on on his laptop. i went in and mike, knowing that i'm a turtle fan (he holds back all the comics for me and sometimes finds me some cool stuff) said to me that there's someone he'd like me to meet and ushered me over to meet D'israeli. i had'nt even heard of this guy, and he opened up a file on his laptop and there was a page from Tales #10 - this was around the time of tales #5 or 6 (I cant remember but it was the day the comic came out and D'israeli had just dome a letter heading of splinter which he's signed for me, just a speechbubble with his sig - so that'll be a clue, i dont have the comic in front of me...) - and i hadnt even an inkling of what was to come, and it showed Don on a computer with the 'pi' golem lying on a table ( i cant remember what page this was)! i was well excited! meeting a TMNT artist just out of the blue, not even at a signing! Anyway, he gave me a sketch of Donatello which i was pretty well made up about, as you can imagine! since then i've met him at the comic shop again (asylum books and games its called), this time at a signing and he gave me a splinter sketch, which is pretty awesome, its of him meditating, legs crossed, the lot! then just before christmas, mike said to me that d'israeli would send me a high quality print of a page from tales #10 (i cant get original artwork cos its all digitally done...) so i got page 10 (counting from when the story starts, missing the intro) where Don somersaults over the Golem! its awesome! cost me 30 bucks like... so anyway, sorry this is so long, but i've been wanting to share this with fellow tmnt fans for awhile now! cheers!

02-11-2006, 10:51 AM	#5
MikesPizzaShack Hench Mutant Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 466	well i tried to meet peter at wizard world 05 but no1 knew when he was gonna show up and the ppl at the booth he was supposed to be at were real jerks.....im still ticked i never got to meet him....and ill prob never get another chance again seeing how this was like his 2-3 time hes only been to a con since the 80's __________________ Hey Check out my Site WWW.TheFanriot.com and our podcast The FanRiot on iTunes!!!! "Welcome to Mikes Pizza Shack! You order the pizza and I eat it."

02-12-2006, 01:05 PM	#9
Ryona Guest Posts: n/a	I met Peter Laird and his boys twice. I still have yet to meet Kevin Eastman.