No, the title is not spelled wrong, Kevin Eastman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Artobiography is one of the most interesting and inspiring books I have ever read. I picked this book up when it first came out and have read it cover to cover multiple times. If you don’t know, TMNT is one my favorite things about my past and a HUGE contributing factor as to how I got to be doing what I am doing now. However, this book skips most of the stuff I loved when I was a kid (namely the cartoon and the movies, although it does mention them) and talks about the basis for all those things, The original Mirage comic book.

The book begins with talking about the beginning of how the original Ninja Turtle idea came to be, and how the two creators, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, developed such an iconic story and characters that are still relevant today. It’s incredibly interesting how the book is laid out, and shows pretty much the entire process of creating an independent comic book through the sketches, drawings and paintings of Kevin Eastman.

This book is incredibly inspiring, and gave me a lot of insight into a part of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that I didn’t really know much about. The art in here is top notch, and I love how it’s mixed with both the black and white drawings from the comic books, as well as the colorful paintings used for the comci covers, posters and a lot more. Kevin goes into heavy detail with pretty much every issue that he was a part of, and it also includes art from other artists like Peter Laird, Simon Bisley and others that contributed to the comic book.

An amazing read, like I said earlier, I have read this so many times and I think I am about to go read it again! You can pick it up here!