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96-658: In the universe of Eastman and Laird 's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , the Foot Clan was founded in Feudal Japan by two men named Sato and Oshi. In Volume 1 Issue 47, the Turtles and Time Mistress Renet traveled to a time prior to the Foot's creation. There, Raphael met Sato and Oshi, and, not realising who they are, he taught them about Ninjutsu. After the Turtles returned to the present, Sato and Oshi decided to follow

192-463: A black and white graphic novel featuring a blend of influences from Spaghetti Western and horror. The book featured art by Simon Bisley and was published by Heavy Metal. Eastman has acted in a small number of films, including Guns of El Chupacabra in 1997 and The Rock n' Roll Cops in 2003. He also had a supporting role in the 2004 Troma film Tales from the Crapper . Before that, he had

288-501: A cameo in the 2000 sequel to The Toxic Avenger called Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV . and had a small role in the first TMNT movie as a garbage collector. He also wrote one episode of the animated children's series Corn & Peg . He was the subject of an interview in the documentary films Independents , and Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . In

384-620: A comic adaptation as a three-issue series, beginning in August 2002. With low pre-orders, Adams personally pushed the comic with the distributor and major comic book stores. Soon the title's back issues were hot and were followed up with Wood's Popbot . In 2007, IDT Corporation purchased a 53% majority interest in IDW from the company's founders, removing Garner & Oprisko, while reducing Adams & Robbins to minority owners collectively at 47%. Then, in 2009, IDT proceeded to increase its interest to

480-679: A fearsome and secret group present across the world. The Foot emblem is a red, trident-like dragon's footprint (hence the name of the clan), an inverted version of the "Three-Toed Sign of the Dragon", the symbol of the five warriors who had defeated the original demon known as the Shredder in 300 AD. Thanks to Shredder's knowledge of Utrom technology, the Clan has weapons and equipment centuries ahead of human technology. They once created Foot Mechs in Rogue in

576-424: A group of comic book managers and artists (Ted Adams, Robbie Robbins, Alex Garner, and Kris Oprisko ) that first met while working at Wildstorm Productions . Each of the four was equal partners, owning 25%. When Jim Lee sold Wildstorm to DC Comics in 1999, Lee turned that company's creative service department, previously run by Adams, over to IDW, allowing IDW to be profitable in its first year. With these profits,

672-639: A more adult nature than the Turtles-oriented Mirage was geared towards, this saw Tundra fitting in the dubious middle-ground, as their intended product sat somewhat awkwardly between the comic shop and the book shop. Eastman says that he "thought that the audience was a lot larger than it actually was," citing his personal assumption that readers would "grow up through X-Men and discover The Sandman and then Dark Knight and Watchmen and beyond." The relatively new inroads of comics and graphic novels into bookshops worked against Tundra at

768-464: A mutagen so the Foot Clan could create two mutant warriors to fight the turtles. This results in a common snapping turtle and a gray wolf taken from the zoo being mutated into Tokka and Rahzar . In the fourth film, the Foot is now under leadership of Karai , who has taken control after the Shredder's demise. They have grown in numbers and skill, and offer their services as mercenaries in the film. They are hired by Max Winters to track down and bring in

864-495: A mutant pigeon and a mutant Tyrannosaurus . Peter Vogl, referring to the movie from 1990, found the teenage members of the Foot Clan a remarkably dark representation of the youths of New York, who are so depraved and without moral compass that they prefer to follow a Japanese gangster boss rather than the generation of their parents. He found that this culture-pessimistic vision seems implausible only at first glance, considering actual cases of youths from Western countries following

960-415: A new imprint named Syzygy Publishing, but he is still editor of future Locke & Key projects. Jerry Bennington was promoted to President, Nachie Marsham was promoted to Publisher, and Rebekah Cahalin was promoted to General Manager and Executive Vice President of Operations covering IDW Publishing, and Veronica Brooks was promoted to Vice President of Creative Affairs. Around 2021, IDW announced that

1056-820: A new independent publisher founded by Ted Adams (cofounder and former CEO of IDW) and Robbie Robbins (cofounder, executive vice president, and art director at IDW). In July 2019, it was announced that IDW Publishing had acquired the classic Sunday strip publisher Sunday Press Books . Between April and May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic , IDW was forced to furlough and then lay off several employees, including Managing Editor Denton Tipton, Associate Publisher David Hedgecock, Senior Graphic Artist Gilberto Lazcano, Senior Graphic Designer Christa Miesner, and Brand & Marketing Manager Spencer Reeve. In July 2020, Chris Ryall announced that he would step down from his position of President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer to launch

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1152-631: A new standard of excellence in the licensing and merchandising industries. In January 1988, Eastman and Laird visited Playmates Toys , who wished to market action figures based on the comic book and animated cartoon series, further cementing the Turtles' place in history and making Eastman and Laird extremely successful. Multiple other Turtles comics, toys, books, games, and other merchandising items have subsequently appeared, overseen and sometimes fully created by Eastman and Laird. Among these are five live-action films: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of

1248-499: A page rate up front for half the action no strings attached. Moreover, Eastman provided a forum for Marvel and DC creators to work on projects that they could not otherwise realize: Basically, I'd meet them at conventions and they'd said they're stuck doing Spider-Man, they had a wife and a kid at home, and they had to make ends meet. But if they really had a chance, they said they'd really do this [at Tundra] and I'd hear this repeatedly. So, I went back to those artists because I had

1344-536: A quick rise to success, bringing in advance orders of 15,000 copies, five times the initial print run of the first issue. This earned Eastman and Laird a profit of $ 2,000 each and allowed them to become full-time comic book creators. The Turtles phenomenon saw the duo invited to their first comics convention at the tenth annual Atlanta Fantasy Fair in 1984, where they mingled with notable fandom celebrities like Larry Niven , Forrest J Ackerman and Fred Hembeck . Their fifth issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1440-540: A restaurant while he searched for publishers for his comics. He met a waitress who was attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst and followed her to Northampton, Massachusetts . While searching for a local underground newspaper to publish his work, he began a professional relationship with Peter Laird , who worked at nearby Dover, New Hampshire , and the two collaborated for a short time on various comics projects. In May 1984, Eastman and Laird self-published

1536-615: A series of monthly one-shot , self-contained stories. July 2009 saw the beginning of Doctor Who , an ongoing series featuring the Tenth Doctor , written by Tony Lee and illustrated by a rotating art team. IDW Publishing acquired the G.I. Joe comics license in May 2008 (previously held by Devil's Due Publishing ) and released three new series under editor Andy Schmidt , from writers such as Chuck Dixon , Larry Hama , and Christos Gage . Other comics were released in time to tie-in with

1632-412: A small group of samurai, and Shredder offered to help him find magical artifacts that would give him power and wealth beyond his wildest dreams. Meanwhile, Splinter's ancestor Hamato Koji had been sent to find the same artifacts and did find them with the help of his descendant and the Turtles. One of the artifacts released a dragon , which headed for nearby villages; Splinter and Koji went to stop it while

1728-508: A weird, sort of shit-luck sort of fashion, Eastman purchased the magazine in January 1992. Despite the audiences for Heavy Metal and Tundra's intended product (as well as more mature-themed comics in general) being of a broadly similar demographic, Eastman recognized from the start that "most of the audience who read Heavy Metal buy it off the newsstands ; they're not going into comic book stores," and stated early on that his intention

1824-427: A widening media presence for the heroes. Eastman and Laird began to widely merchandise their property. Dark Horse Miniatures produced a set of 15 lead figurines for role-playing gamers and collectors, Palladium Books produced a role-playing game featuring the Turtles, and First Comics reprinted in four volumes the first eleven issues as color trade paperback collections. Palladium's role-playing game brought

1920-657: Is a drawing of a right foot, and the Foot Soldiers wear purple and black uniforms featuring the logo on their foreheads. The Foot logo can also be seen on the Technodrome . The Archie TMNT Adventures comics features more advanced Foot Soldiers in addition to the basic model. In the comics, The Shredder also built a giant Foot Soldier, who fought against the Warrior Dragon in New York City. The robot

2016-590: Is a symbol of the leader of the Foot Clan, passed down to the various rulers in the Foot's history. The Foot Clan would end up in a lengthy war against the Hamato Clan, which reached a boiling point when Oroku Saki was raised alongside Hamato Yoshi . Though the two were raised as brothers, Saki discovered his true heritage as being an orphaned Foot Clan member, and when his love Tang Shen wed Yoshi, he inadvertently killed Shen leaving Yoshi to supposedly perish while saving his infant daughter Hamato Miwa. In this series,

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2112-558: Is also forthcoming. In 2004, 2005, and 2006 IDW Publishing was named Publisher of the Year by Diamond Comic Distributors . In 2010, IDW Publishing released the sequel to Michael San Giacomo's "Phantom Jack" Image Comics series with "Phantom Jack: The Nowhere Man Agenda." The graphic novel is notable because it features the death of the main character, a reporter who can turn invisible. IDW Publishing formed an imprint with EA Games in late 2009, called EA Comics, to focus on adaptations of

2208-462: Is doing stuff at Tundra, the big publishers were losing money because Dave's not doing Arkham Asylum 2 and Alan Moore's not doing Watchmen 2, he's not doing Swamp Thing , but instead he's doing From Hell with Tundra.... Basically, we got the raw end of the deal. Kevin Eastman had been a longtime fan of the science fiction and fantasy magazine, much of whose content was translated from

2304-475: Is recognized as the fifth-largest comic book publisher in the United States , behind Marvel , DC , Dark Horse , and Image Comics , ahead of other comic book publishers such as Archie , Boom! , Dynamite , Valiant , and Oni Press . The company is known for its licensed comic book adaptations of films, television shows, video games, and cartoons. Idea and Design Works (IDW) was formed in 1999 by

2400-408: Is said to have a cameo in the film as a doctor, and has voiced the character Ice Cream Kitty in the 2012 CGI series . In December 2019, issue #100 of IDW Publishing's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic series featured a teaser ad for an upcoming comic project titled The Last Ronin in which the prospect of a possible reunion and cooperation between Eastman and Laird was held out. The project

2496-522: Is still in effect in Volume 4 of the comic. The 1987 series and the spin-off TMNT Adventures comics share a similar continuity, and thus the same version of the Foot Clan. The Foot is an ancient ninjutsu clan, founded in Japan in 1583. The Shredder, followed by the Turtles and Splinter , went back and forth in time to try to kill the creator of the Foot Clan. In 1583, Shredder's ancestor Oroku Sancho led

2592-466: The Creator's Bill of Rights . Eastman felt obligated to expand it beyond theory and into practice, providing a forum for comics creators to work for a publisher while maintaining ownership of their work. Rick Veitch has written that: One of the plans was for Tundra to act as an exoskeleton for an existing self-publisher ; offering marketing muscle, higher production values, printing costs paid and

2688-579: The Hasbro Reconstruction initiative to present a shared universe of Hasbro brands, which was later known as the Hasbro Comic Book Universe . The first event was Revolution , followed by First Strike on 2017. In April 2017, IDW Publishing acquired a license from Lucasfilm to produce a range of all-ages Star Wars comics. In July 2017, Sega announced a partnership with IDW to publish comics based on Sonic

2784-696: The Islamic State . He also pointed out that the root of the challenge depicted in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is not domestic, but Shredder and his assistants come from abroad. Vogl concludes that, even if not intended by the creators, the movie employs fears of city crime, of the young generation, and of foreignness. Kevin Eastman Kevin Brooks Eastman (born May 30, 1962) is an American comic book writer and artist best known for co-creating

2880-667: The New York Stock Exchange ; the company also restructured its C-suite and experienced an almost 50% drop in its share price. On October 16, 2024, IDW announced a rebranding with a new logo. IDW has several imprints that they have developed or acquired: Konami acquired the video game rights, and minority ownership, in IDW Publishing's CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations . A 2007 film adaptation based on Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith 's 30 Days of Night starred Josh Hartnett and Melissa George ,

2976-528: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Peter Laird . Eastman was also formerly the editor and publisher of the magazine Heavy Metal . Eastman was born in Portland, Maine . He attended Westbrook High School in Westbrook, Maine , with comic book illustrator Steve Lavigne . He grew up a comic book fan, with Jack Kirby as his idol and Kamandi as his favorite title of his. In 1983, he worked in

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3072-434: The summer 2009 G.I. Joe film . In March 2009, IDW Publishing forged an agreement with Mike Gold's Comicmix.com to publish print versions of Comicmix's online comic books. The agreement stipulates Comicmix must provide two comic books a month to IDW Publishing to publish, as well as graphic novels and trade paperbacks as demanded by the market. The books are published with both the IDW Publishing and Comicmix.com logos on

3168-716: The 13 monsters arriving in New York City. In the 2014 live-action film (which is a reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series), the Foot Clan are no longer considered an international ninja cult, but rather a modern American terrorist organization . Besides Shredder and Karai, the film also introduced Eric Sacks who is Shredder's student, Dr. O'Neil's former lab partner, and the CEO of Sacks Industries. Instead of black unitard -clad masked ninjitsu warriors, they are portrayed as fully armed men that wear black military-like uniforms and often wore kabuki style masks to conceal one's identity. In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of

3264-729: The 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode "Lone Rat and Cubs". He also co-wrote the 2016 stand-alone TMNT short "Pizza Friday". Eastman also made a brief cameo in Out of the Shadows , and made a voice-over cameo in Mutant Mayhem . Creative differences began to strain Eastman and Laird's partnership. In an interview in 2002, Laird noted that the two hadn't spent much time together since 1993. Eastman moved to California while Laird stayed in Massachusetts. On June 1, 2000, Laird and

3360-515: The D&;D 5th Edition core setting . A sixth five-issue mini-series, Infernal Tide , is set to be published in November 2019. In April 2011, IDW Publishing acquired the license to publish new collections of older Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics , as well as a new ongoing series beginning in August of that year. In August 2017 issue #73 of the main ongoing series was published, making it

3456-592: The Duck ") at the Atlanta Fantasy Fair , the convention he and Laird attended in 1984. Collecting subsequently became "quite an addiction" for him, and combined with his experiences in getting his, and others', comics work recognised as "Art," led to him founding the Words & Pictures Museum , which operated as a brick-and-mortar museum from 1992 to 1999. Eastman has a son whom he had via surrogate. He

3552-409: The Foot Clan existed since the time of feudal Japan where it was founded by a ronin by the name of Takeshi Tatsuo who had been betrayed by his master. The sorceress Kitsune helped Tatsuo, to recover from the severe wounds he had suffered in the assassination attempt. The name of the clan was created by the bloody footprint of Tatsuo whose leg was completely healed by Kitsune ministrations. When Tatsuo

3648-562: The Foot Clan is a global ninjutsu clan and crime syndicate answering only to the Shredder, though others run the various factions of the Foot Clan across the globe. The basic Foot Soldiers are silent ninjas with black robes and red bug-like eyes who are equipped with various weapons such as swords , shurikens , spears , nunchucks and tonfas . Eventually after a alliance with the Kraang, these warriors are replaced by robotic duplicates called " Foot-Bots ", who have more advanced combat and have

3744-402: The Foot and also to find new test subjects. In this way, it led to the creation of the mutant arctic fox Alopex. In this endeavor, the Foot Clan also came into contact with the extradimensional warlord General Krang who also wanted to create a mutant army to meet his objectives. An attack by the Foot Clan in the laboratory of Krang's ally Baxter Stockman led by a combination of circumstances to

3840-660: The French, and appeared in the original Métal Hurlant publication of which Heavy Metal is only the American-licensed incarnation. He cites the publication as bringing Richard Corben to his attention as the "second greatest influence" on him as an artist, after Jack Kirby . He saw in its pages European art which had not been previously seen in the United States, as well as an underground comix sensibility that nonetheless "wasn't as harsh or extreme as some of

3936-607: The Hedgehog beginning in 2018, following the conclusion/cancellation of the previous series by Archie Comics . IDW has also launched new imprint called Black Crown, handling creator-owned comics. In April 2018, publishers IDW Publishing and Oni Press announced a crossover between the Rick and Morty comic book and Dungeons & Dragons co-written by Jim Zub and Patrick Rothfuss with art by Troy Little . The four issue mini-series, Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons ,

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4032-632: The House which were based on Master Splinter, the President, the Prime Minister, and some others. In the 2012 series , the Foot Clan's origins are expanded on in the second season of the series. The clan was founded in Japan by a master martial artist named Koga Takuza, who used the swords of his fallen foes to forge a helmet stronger than steel, dubbing it the Kuro Kabuto. The Kabuto helmet

4128-573: The Mirage Group purchased Eastman's ownership in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property and corporations. Eastman wanted to move on to other projects. The buyout was completed on March 1, 2008. In 2011, Eastman began working with the TMNT series again as a writer and artist on the IDW comic series , as well as an adviser on the 2014 reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series. Eastman

4224-587: The Ooze (1991), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016). Four more television series were also created: Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation (1997), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018). There also were two animated feature films: TMNT (2007) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023). Eastman wrote

4320-470: The Past", the Foot was founded by the noble warrior Shibana-Sama). In 1960s Japan, both Oroku Saki and Hamato Yoshi were part of the Clan. Saki framed Yoshi for trying to murder a visiting sensei and had him exiled to New York City, thus clearing the way to take over the Foot Clan. He then proceeded to turn the Foot Clan into an army of criminals. Over the years, Saki, who became known as The Shredder, moved to

4416-546: The Shadows , the Foot Ninjas make their appearance, under leadership of Baxter Stockman to free Shredder. After Krang met with Shredder and told him about the device that would bring the Technodrome to Earth, Shredder and Karai recruited escaped prisoners Rocksteady and Bebop to aid them in obtaining the pieces. In the 1997-1998 Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation series, the Foot Clan is a street gang , similar to

4512-716: The TV franchises Star Trek and CSI . The company's other licensed comics include Topps ' Mars Attacks , Sony 's Underworld , FX 's The Shield , Fox 's 24 and Angel ; Universal ’s Land of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead ; and Konami ’s Silent Hill , Castlevania , Metal Gear Solid , and Speed Racer . The company has also had success with comic license from toy company Hasbro brands: The Transformers (with Takara ), G.I. Joe , My Little Pony , and Jem . Transformers has had as many as five different titles running concurrently. Beginning in 2008,

4608-544: The Turtles to the attention of licensing agent Mark Freedman and the Turtles phenomenon took off, with the various characters soon appearing on T-shirts, Halloween masks, mugs, and other paraphernalia. A five-part televised cartoon mini-series based on the Turtles debuted in December 1987. The half-hour episodes were produced by Osamu Yoshioka ( 吉岡 修 ) and the animation was directed by Yoshikatsu Kasai ( 笠井 由勝 ) from scripts by David Wise and Patti Howeth. The mini-series

4704-420: The Turtles went to fight Shredder. Sancho's men captured the Turtles and were about to execute them when Koji arrived, riding the dragon, which he had tamed. Seeing this, Sancho fled in fear, and Koji offered to lead Sancho's men and teach them the ninjutsu art of Shibana-Sama, founding the Foot Clan, so named for the footprint of the dragon in which he stood as he made his speech. (However, according to "Blast from

4800-611: The US, allied himself with the alien warlord Krang , and replaced the human Foot Ninja with robotic Foot Soldiers. However, these robots are no match for the Ninja Turtles, who destroy them at every encounter. In the cartoon, The Shredder once considered making more intelligent Foot Soldiers, capable of learning and taking decisions by themselves. However, the idea was quickly abandoned when the first intelligent prototype, named Alpha 1, rebelled against The Shredder. The Foot Clan's logo

4896-520: The ability to learn and predict the Turles' moves, they also have the ability to grow extra limbs and can morph their hands into deadly weapons like curved blades, buzzsaws, maces and drills. Another variation of these machines are the Elite Foot-Bots , who are based off Chrome Dome and are built with plasma weapons. After Shredder had fled New York, Karai wants to regain the Foot Clan's honor with

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4992-535: The armor corrupted Saki and turned him to the Shredder who led the Foot down to an evil path. Its known members in the present are the Foot Lieutenant and the Foot Brute. They can make origami ninjas out of paper and have the power of teleportation through hidden gateways. They seek to revive their master and are collecting the pieces of his armor in the shape of ancient artifacts. The Foot Clan appear in

5088-519: The comic book license for Disney properties would pass to Marvel Comics , while the license for Lucasfilm's Star Wars passed back to Dark Horse Comics . In September 2021, IDW announced that its partnership with Diamond Comic Distributors would switch to Penguin Random House . In December 2021, The Library of American Comics announced that they would be moving to Clover Press. That same month, John Barber announced that he would step away from

5184-454: The company has published its first crossover series Infestation . In March 2012 IDW Publishing announced it would release new comics based on Judge Dredd and The Crow . Also in 2012, Hasbro licensed the use of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic for an IDW comic book series . The company also published Infestation 2 . In February 2013, IDW Publishing announced a partnership with Cartoon Network to publish comics based on

5280-789: The company licensed the Doctor Who series from the BBC, launching two concurrent titles: Doctor Who Classics , which reprints colorized comic strips featuring the past Doctors such as the Fourth Doctor and Fifth Doctor originally published in the late 1970s-early 1980s by Doctor Who Magazine , and Doctor Who: Agent Provocateur , an original six-part limited series featuring the Tenth Doctor and overseen and written by TV series script editor Gary Russell . An additional six-part limited series titled Doctor Who: The Forgotten started in mid-2008 by Tony Lee and Pia Guerra , as well as

5376-439: The company was not making money on its titles, and had to cease production. He noted that Tundra was one of the earlier creator-owned companies, "before Image really took off" and before Dark Horse Comics ' " Legends line ." Eastman admitted that Tundra tried to do too much too quickly, and ran into difficulties accordingly. He also suggested that "[n]ot one book made any money". He also believed that part of Tundra's downfall

5472-556: The covers. As of the end of 2009, the agreement has produced print versions of the Grimjack series The Manx Cat ; the Jon Sable series Ashes of Eden ; Mark Wheatley and Robert Tinnell 's pulp hero series Lone Justice ; the graphic novel Demons of Sherwood by Tinnell and Bo Hampton ; and a graphic novel collecting Trevor Von Eeden 's The Original Johnson . A collection of Munden's Bar stories original to Comicmix's website

5568-468: The creation of the Turtles and their father Splinter (who in a previous life had himself belonged to the Foot Clan). Besides Shredder, Kitsune, and a substantial number of Foot Ninjas, other members of the Foot Clan include Karai (who was a descendant of Oroku Saki and the daughter of Oroku Yori), Masato, Dr. Miller, Alopex (a mutated Arctic Fox), Rocksteady, Bebop, Koya (Shredder's pet brown falcon who

5664-427: The current 76%, reducing Adams & Robbins's interest once again to the current 24%. Then, shortly afterwards, IDT created CTM Media Holdings via a tax-free spin-off. This new company consisted of the majority interest in IDW and CTM Media Group. Eight years later, on April 3, 2015, CTM Media Holdings announced it would continue operations under a new name, becoming IDW Media Holdings, which would continue to consist of

5760-408: The distribution of the series internationally. The series debuted on Netflix on January 23, 2020, and was canceled after one season. Netflix announced a television adaptation of the comic series created by William Laurin and Glenn Davis, on April 16, 2018, with 10 episodes produced by High Park Entertainment in association with IDW Entertainment, who would also be involved in the distribution of

5856-566: The dust settled. Despite heavy financial losses, Eastman remained philosophical about his work with Tundra. In a 2007 interview, he drew the analogy that: Doing the Turtles was like going to college and doing Tundra Publishing was like getting my master's degree. So I learned a lot with the Turtles and I learned the rest of what I needed to know... when I did Tundra. He made mention of the multiple award nominations Tundra received during its first and second years, including Harvey Awards and Eisner Awards , but noted that despite critical acclaim,

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5952-569: The early 2000s Eastman was commissioned to create artwork for the drum kit used by System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan , an avid comic book collector and vendor. Dolmayan commissioned Eastman to illustrate the Ninja Turtles on one drum, while the art for other drums in the kit, which depicted other characters and scenes, were produced by Simon Bisley , Tim Vigil , and Arthur Adams . Eastman purchased his first piece of original artwork ("a couple of pages that were penciled by Michael Golden and inked by Bob McLeod for Marvel Comics ' Howard

6048-534: The film Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (which is based on the IDW crossover). Sato and Oshi ( see above ) are mentioned as founders of the Foot Clan. The Foot Clan collaborated with the League of Assassins in a plot that involved using a stolen Wayne Enterprises cloud seeder to spread a compound containing a mixture of mutagen and Joker venom on Gotham City . A select number of Foot Ninjas were mutated into mutant animals where two of them were mutated into

6144-503: The firm decided to fund a new venture every year. In 2000, IDW developed a TV show concept, getting as far as a pilot episode. For the 2001's project, Adams's Ashley Wood talked to them about publishing an art book, thus starting up IDW Publishing. Una Fanta was published in March 2002. Woods had Steve Niles send Adams some of his rejected screenplays. Adams selected one, 30 Days of Night , and paired him with artist Ben Templesmith for

6240-500: The first black & white issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . The forty-page oversized comic had an initial print run of 3,275 copies and was largely funded by a US$ 1000 loan from Eastman's uncle Quentin. It was published by the duo's Mirage Studios , a name chosen because, as Eastman says, "there wasn't an actual studio, only kitchen tables and couches with lap boards." By September 1985, their first issue had received three additional printings. Laird's newspaper experience led to

6336-410: The help of her friend Shinigami and recruit more students, who all wear robes resembling the Hamato Clan. In Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , the Foot Clan were initially peaceful and lived in the feudal Japan, but came under attack and were nearly wiped out, their leader Oroku Saki sought help from an Oni who provided him with a mystic armor that allowed him to defeat their attackers, but

6432-655: The latter's video games, with initial titles including Army of Two and Dragon Age . In January 2011, IDW Publishing announced a new Dungeons & Dragons comic series , under license from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast . Set in the D&;D 4th Edition core setting , the new ongoing series Dungeons & Dragons (Fell's Five) ran for 16 issues. Several mini-series were also published including The Legend of Drizzt: Neverwinter Tales written by R.A. Salvatore . Since 2014, five five-issue mini-series have been published in

6528-569: The longest running comic series in the franchise's history. September 6, 2011, for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 , IDW Publishing teamed up Charlie Foxtrot Entertainment and released the graphic novel Code Word: Geronimo , written by retired Marine Corps Captain Dale Dye and Julia Dye, drawn by Gerry Kissell with inker Amin Amat. Code Word: Geronimo reached #22 on Diamond Comics top 100 list its first month after release. During that same year,

6624-446: The majority interest in IDW and CTM Media Group. The company's first traditional comic series, 30 Days of Night , created by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith started a seven-figure bidding war between DreamWorks , MGM , and Senator International , with Senator winning and Sam Raimi attached to produce. IDW Publishing's second title, Popbot , won two Gold Spectrum Awards . IDW Publishing also publishes comics based on

6720-693: The money and said I'd give them the chance. I asked them what they'd like to do. They could pick their dream projects that they'd wanna do and I would provide the funding so that they could survive and they didn't have to do Spider-Man for a year and I'll fund the projects and I just wanted to make my money back from the profits to keep my company going. Projects (partly) realized by Tundra included: Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz 's Big Numbers , Moore and Eddie Campbell 's From Hell , Moore and Melinda Gebbie 's Lost Girls (these last two original serialized in Stephen R. Bissette 's Taboo anthology, which

6816-524: The movie) is included in the Transformers DVD. Syfy announced a television adaptation to be developed by Emily Andras of Beau Smith 's Wynonna Earp , which premiered on April 1, 2016, and ended on April 9, 2021. Netflix announced a television adaptation on September 28, 2018 of the comic series created by Steve Niles to be produced by High Park Entertainment in association with IDW Entertainment, who would also be involved in

6912-438: The movies. After Venus defeated The Shredder, Leonardo told the kids that the Foot is a lie, and the clan was disbanded. In the 2003 series , the Foot Clan is more similar to its original comic version. The Foot Clan are a group of warriors and assassins that Shredder created 10 centuries ago in Japan. The Shredder, who in this series is a long-lived Utrom named Ch'rell, has led the Clan since its creation and has turned it into

7008-425: The network's television series and reprint older Cartoon Network comics. On January 6, 2015, IDW Publishing announced it had acquired Top Shelf Productions . In February 2015, it was announced that IDW Publishing made a deal with Disney to continue the publication of the following comic books: Uncle Scrooge , Donald Duck , Mickey Mouse , and Walt Disney's Comics and Stories . In 2016, IDW launched

7104-404: The role of Editor-in-Chief. In January 2022, IDW announced that they would lose the comic book licenses for Hasbro's Transformers and G.I. Joe by the end of the year, but would continue publishing other Hasbro licenses, including My Little Pony and Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons & Dragons . On April 27, 2023, IDW cut 39% of their staff and became privately-held by delisting from

7200-533: The streets upon moving to New York and training them in Ninjutsu himself. His second-in-command is another Ninjutsu master called Tatsu. In the films, the Foot use the kanji Oni ( 鬼 ) , which translates to "demon" or "ogre", as their symbol, worn in their hachimaki or on their backs. In the second film, Tatsu tried to take command. He relinquished his claim when the Shredder returned. The clan then kidnapped Professor Jordon Perry of TGRI and forced him to use

7296-525: The time. Eastman swiftly became aware that Tundra and the Turtles differed considerably, not least since the latter was successful enough to effectively run itself, with a few 'nudges' "to keep it moving along." Tundra, on the other hand, dealt in new properties, which required "building from the ground up," and was "a lot more work" than Eastman had anticipated, growing far too quickly for comfort, and requiring considerable injections of time and money, rather than being profitable. Speaking in 1992/93, Eastman

7392-491: The two creating a four-page press kit, which included a story outline and artwork. They sent the press kit to 180 television and radio stations as well as to the Associated Press and United Press International . This led to widespread press coverage of both the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mirage Studios itself, creating a demand for the comic. With their second issue, Eastman and Laird's Turtles comic began

7488-458: The underground comix – but... definitely intended for an older readership." Discovering Heavy Metal had been put up for sale, and with one of Tundra's stated aims, to bring a more adult sensibility (and mature, adult readers ) to comics, overlapping with the magazine's target audience, Eastman decided that Heavy Metal was "the final piece of the puzzle", and looked into purchasing it. Noting that: In my life, too many things have happened in

7584-464: The ways of the ninja. The Foot Clan are the most feared clan of warriors and assassins in Japan . Both Hamato Yoshi and Oroku Nagi were members, until one day, Nagi attacked Yoshi's love Tang Shen and Yoshi killed Nagi. Dishonored, Yoshi and Shen fled to New York City , while Nagi's younger brother Oroku Saki was adopted by the clan and was trained to become a fierce ninja . When he was ready, Saki

7680-416: Was "fairly cool." Eastman sold the magazine to digital and music veteran David Boxenbaum and film producer Jeff Krelitz in January 2014. Eastman continued to serve as publisher of the magazine until 2020, and was a minority investor in the new Heavy Metal . Aside from his work on multiple Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles projects, and as publisher of Tundra Publishing, Eastman created Fistful of Blood ,

7776-435: Was also part-published by Tundra), The Crow , Mike Allred 's Madman and Dave McKean 's Cages , and others. Eastman initially thought that his experience at Mirage gave him "a pretty good grasp of what a publisher should be, and what a publisher needs to do," although he swiftly realized that "Tundra was not like publishing the Turtles." As part of Eastman's designs for Tundra were to produce personal projects of

7872-514: Was betrayed by his clan are learning that he made a pact with a magician, his mind was born again in the son of his murderer Oroku Saki, the uprooting of the reawakening of his old memories powered over the communities and with Kitsune's counsel the Foot was revived in modern times. In more recent times, the clan under the leadership of Oroku Saki (who was now operating as Shredder) tried to expand its supremacy in New York City. Its Foot Ninja were therefore often sent to amass any science that could help

7968-526: Was confirmed in April 2020, with a TBD release date sometime in the summer, and was subsequently released in October 2020. While co-managing Mirage Studios , Eastman and Laird often spoke of the difficulties in maintaining creative control of their work. Eastman decided to address this problem by using his own personal knowledge and connections to help other creators. Approaching Laird with his ideas, Eastman

8064-514: Was destroyed when it crashed into the Statue of Liberty . The Foot robot concept allowed the Turtles to destroy the Foot soldiers without any moral thoughts, allowing Leonardo and Raphael to use their weapons more offensively. Meanwhile, the series could keep its younger audience and remain a "family show". This principle also benefited the video games. In the IDW Publishing adaption,

8160-531: Was directed by David Slade , produced by 2002 Spider-Man director Sam Raimi and distributed by Columbia Pictures . Dimension Films has an option on two Steve Niles/IDW Publishing properties: Wake the Dead , with X2 screenwriter Michael Dougherty attached to write, and Hyde , with Mike Fleiss ( The Bachelor , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ) attached to produce. The motion comic version of Transformers: Movie Prequel titled Transformers: Beginnings (albeit excluding characters not present in

8256-487: Was first published in August 2018. In May 2019, a sequel mini-series was announced: Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons: Chapter II: Painscape. It will be written by Jim Zub and Sarah Stern with art by Troy Little. In 2019, the company went under financial difficulties and got help from JPMorgan Chase evaluating strategies to be profitable. In May 2019, IDW offered itself as an investor in Clover Press ,

8352-482: Was later mutated), and Bludgeon (a mutant hammerhead shark ). IDW also did a crossover issues with Batman called Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles where the Foot Clan appeared. The first crossover showed the Foot Clan collaborating with the League of Assassins . At the time when Mutant Town was established following a mutagen bomb going off the day when Baxter Stockman became the Mayor of New York City , Old Hob

8448-601: Was meeting with Oroku Karai to sell her some mutants in order to strengthen the Foot Clan. She was able to purchase Tokka and Rahzar. A possible future in issue #113 depicts an event in 2032 where the Foot Clan goes to war with the Splinter Clan. In the first and second movies, the Foot Clan is a group of ninja thieves founded by the Shredder in Japan, but later stationed in New York. The Shredder had taken what Foot Soldiers he had from Japan, and began taking kids from

8544-576: Was met with a less than positive response: [M]y first thought was to expand the publishing arm of Mirage. But the more sane of the two partners said, "What are you, nuts?" ...[w]e were working pretty much full time just on the Turtles. Pete told me, and I agreed, that he didn't want to have anything else on his brain in terms of publishing at the time. So with his blessing, I started Tundra Publishing. Eastman founded Tundra Publishing in 1990, to realize personal and other projects. He joined with other comic creators like Scott McCloud and Dave Sim to form

8640-444: Was optimistic that the company had "finally reached the point where [it had] slowed up enough... to be giving individual projects the time and attention they require[d]." Shortly thereafter, however, Tundra merged with Kitchen Sink Press (KSP), closing its (solo) doors after just three years. Although Eastman ended up on KSP's board, Kitchen Sink Press itself closed down in 1999, with Eastman losing between $ 9 and $ 14 million once

8736-514: Was previously married to model and actress Julie Strain from 1995 to 2006. Eastman married actress and producer Courtney Carr on October 5, 2013. They lived in San Diego with his son and pet dachshunds . IDW Publishing IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books , graphic novels , art books , and comic strip collections. It was founded in 1999 as the publishing division of Idea and Design Works, LLC ( IDW) and

8832-540: Was released in November 1985, and was downsized to the more common American comics-format and size. The previous four issues were also reprinted in this size and format with new colored covers. Also in 1985, Solson Publications released How to Draw Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . Solson would follow this up with the six-issue Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Authorized Martial Arts Training Manual as well as one issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teach Karate volume in 1987. Mirage's Turtles comic led to

8928-400: Was sent to America to head the New York branch of the Clan. Under his leadership, it took only a year for it to become a powerful and fearsome entity within the city. Shredder's elite guard. Karai , a clan leader from Japan, came here to stop the clan war. She enlisted the Turtles' help in this, in exchange for promising that no Foot shall ever try to avenge the Shredder again. This peace treaty

9024-456: Was successful, leading to a full series, with the mini-series forming the first season. The series had a 9-year, 10-season, 193-episode run. Bob Burden writes: within days of it airing it was apparent that the TMNT would prove every bit as popular for the television audience as it had been for the comic readers. From there, Surge Licensing formed an unstoppable creative marketing powerhouse that set

9120-488: Was tied to his offering Marvel and DC employees the chance to work on creator-owned and personal projects. He has stated in an interview that: In my personal opinion, we took away so many creams of the crops [ sic ] artists like Dave McKean , Neil Gaiman , Alan Moore , Rick Veitch , Mike Allred ... [that] the two big companies had the power to go to the key distributors and made them short sell, under ship and ____ing bury these guys because now that Dave McKean

9216-400: Was to produce "numerous crossovers from the cutting edge of comics creators" to expose the magazine's readership not just to the comics industry, "but anything from the visual media that can cross over." Eastman also attempted to bring some European hardcover comics to America, using Heavy Metal to help serialize them and both defray the costs and boost readership. Initial interest, however,

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