Usagi Statue Prototypes

Did you know that this year is also the 25th anniversary of Stan Saki’s Usagi Yojimbo? Well it is! You can catch stan’s blog in Our friends section.

While you’re there, you can check out the prototypes of these awesome new statues!

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Here are Stan’s words about them:

Roel has taken out the license to produce Usagi statues, and they are the best I have seen. I had the first three prototypes proudly displayed on my table. I had lots of room, seeing as I had sold out of all my books by noon the previous day. These were bronze colored statues, but the productions models will be full color (though the bronze ones look pretty good too). The Jotaro figure will also include one of my signature lizards. Dark Horse and I had run out of the 25th anniversary posters, but there were still people inquiring about them.

Peter Talks About The Falling Out

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Peter Laird posted a blog today about the layout images of volume 1 #12. However, within this post, he addressed an issue he doesn’t often talk about…his falling out with Kevin. Click the picture for a lin kto the full post…or read the juicy stuff below:

This issue is somewhat significant because it marked the end — or, perhaps more accurately, the beginning of the end — of my creative partnership with Kevin Eastman. With the burgeoning success and accompanying stresses of the TMNT licensing program, then (in 1987) kicking into high gear, Kevin and I had gotten kind of sick of working with each other. It had become very difficult to produce an issue of the TMNT comic book without a lot of unpleasantness and disagreements. It got to the point where we both realized that something had to change.

I remember we had a short meeting in Pulaski Park in downtown Northampton, wherein we decided that we should take a break from each other, and alternate issues of the comic — I’d do one, he’d do the next, and so on. It fell to me to produce the next issue — I can’t remember exactly how we came to that conclusion… perhaps I already had a story, perhaps Kevin was too busy with something else. I don’t know. But the long and short of it was that, for the first time, I wrote, penciled, inked and toned an entire issue of the TMNT book, by myself.

It was fun, but a lot of work, and although it was a relief not to have to deal with Kevin on it, I did still miss his input. We did get back together some time later to work on “Return to New York” and “City at War”, but it was never quite the same. — PL

At this point, there is very little point in being upset over this kind of stuff, I would rather digest it as a glimpse into the history of the turtles. I find it extremely interesting. I thought you might too.

More Interview's By Rutger

After seeing his interviews featured on GGM the other day, Rutger asked us to post up some additional interviews of his (Click the Pictures).

Also, Rutger’s EXTENSIVE TMNT Autograph collection can now be found in the new Collections link section. We will be adding staff and fan collections to that section by request. So by all means, REQUEST!

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Hooray For Isaac!

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You know, it’s times like these that I am very proud of the staff we have assembled here at GGM.

Our token Canadian staffer, Isaac Fisher, was featured on Peter Laird’s blog over the weekend (click the picture to check it out). As you may or may not know, Isaac is the man spearheading the Turtle Doc project. We at Go Green Machine have the utmost faith in Isaac and his vision to make this documentary truly great, and we are all very excited for its release later this year. Stay tuned to Go Green Machine to keep up to date on the turtle doc project, or you can visit their site directly.

TMNT Adventures #30 Cover

In my back and fourths with Steve Lavigne I was fortunate enough to be able to swindle him out of this:

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This is the cover art of TMNT Adventures #30. This is one of my favorite covers because, in this shot, Complete Carnage looks very much like Chernabog, my favorite Disney villain.

This is a Lavigne/Laird piece.