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–>> This classic ad for the cult – fave “TMNT / GRIM JACK” crossover in pretty interesting from the long gone but not forgotten First Comics.
On the offset it gives off the classic whimsy and nature in diversity of the Mirage Aliens that Laird and Eastman populated the Turtles’ Galaxy with.
There is one thing of interesting note on this ad.
On Peter Laird’s popular blog in a post of **September of 2008 , Pete posted an illustration entitled “Enchanted Pilgrimage” ::
“Clifford Simak is one of my all-time favorite writers, and in the early 1980’s I played around with trying to illustrate some scenes from a few of his books. This one is from “Enchanted Pilgrimage”. “– PL
!["Enchanted Pilgrimage" illustration .. art by Pete Laird (( 1986 )) [[ Courtesy of P L ]]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3071/2851390382_68403912a9.jpg)
Obviously, these uncovered ‘Simak’ creatures from Mr.Laird’s archives are the same ones depicted as the Turtles’ extra-terrestrial drinking buddies in the GRIM JACK ad !!
~t
**Terminator Note: To see the original artwork for the complete 8 page story click the image! 🙂
![TMNT_Feudal_Era[1]](http://gogreenmachine.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/tmnt_feudal_era1.jpg "TMNT_Feudal_Era[1]")
My very good friend and co-worker, Jeff Thomas, showed me this today and it dropped my jaw. Jeff is an amazing artist. He and another dear friend of mine, Celeste Green, run a number of webcomics out of their blog. Click the pic to go right to it!
This was too cute not to post. Over at Stan Sakai’s blog, he has posted a picture of an interpretation of Usagi Yojimbo by none other than Stan Lee. This was done for one of the SDCC09 projects. Click the pic to go directly to his blog.
“After many, many months I can finally present the cover to issue FIVE of cereal:geek – This issue will cover the topic of how cartoons and comics were closely linked during the eighties – With that in mind take a careful look at the composition of the cover… ( including TMNT ~ t )
The magazine will go to the printers in the next two weeks and be on sale soon thereafter – Issue SIX will hopefully follow a month or two later as it is pretty much complete. And just to remind you issues one, two, three and four are still available, as well as the PDF special.
UK customers – Visit the **cereal:geek website and purchase the magazine – or purchase it from Orbital Comics in London
OVERSEAS customers – Please purchase the magazine from ***Graham Crackers Comics ”
— James Eatock, CG editor ..publisher and Toon busta