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ridiculous things â like the total stranger who asked me for a quarter of a million dollars to fund his general store. It got to the point where I was getting overwhelmed with making these kinds of decisions, and it was suggested to me that a foundation might be a good way to "separate the wheat from the chaff", providing official and clearly delineated channels through which people looking for money had to make their way.
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small continuing income participation, to Laird and the Mirage Group on June 1, 2000. On March 1, 2008, Laird and Mirage bought out
Eastman's remaining rights and interest and the two went their separate ways. Concerning Eastman's departure, Laird stated his belief that Eastman "was just tired of it." On October 19, 2009, Laird sold the franchise to
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situation and the charitable foundation as being "that the Xeric grants are not loans, which have to be paid back, but actual grants, which do not." He "credit
Kendall Clark, who has run the foundation for me from the beginning, as one of the main reasons it has worked as well as it has... she's done
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what might have happened differently as a result of that delay?" It occurred to him that "there must be so many times where a self-publishing venture can sink or float on the strength of" a relatively small amount of money, so he felt a desire to use some of his "good fortune, in the financial sense,
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in Laird. The "incredible growth and complexity of the business" that sprang up around their instantly-successful
Turtles properties led to Laird's "suddenly discover to my horror that I no longer enjoyed drawing. It was a real shock, because if I ever had anything that I could rely on... it was that
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comic came about thanks to a loan the two secured from
Quentin Eastman, Kevin Eastman's uncle. Although the two were able to pay him back swiftly, it led Laird to speculate about what could have been: "if we hadn't gotten that loan from him at that point in our lives, it might have taken us a couple
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Eastman's creations went on to become a popular cultural phenomenon, forcing both of them to take regular sabbaticals from the comic to deal with the day to day pressures of running what had become a multimedia franchise. Eastman sold his share of the franchise, with the exception of a
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comic began a meteoric rise to success, bringing in advance orders of 15,000 copies. This, Eastman has been quoted as saying, "basically ended up with us clearing a profit of two thousand dollars apiece. Which allowed us to write and draw stories full-time: it was enough to pay the rent, pay the
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and others had (which led directly to the formalizing of the "Creator's Bill of Rights," setting out in writing the necessary working arrangements that comics creators felt ought to be met regarding ownership of their work and proper remuneration, etc.) in informing his decision to set up the
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Turtles and self-publishing" was a learning process that, he felt "would be very valuable to other people to go through" as well, "in teaching creators about themselves, about life about the hard reality of business." He cites the summits he, Eastman,
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it! Let's see what happens!â...Suddenly, and just completely out of the blue, this
Turtles phenomenon emerged. And really â from day one â just took over. It was a rapidly accelerating process which culminated in essentially taking over our lives. Completely.
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Turtles' popularity increased, further people were added to the studio, including
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their comics." That later half is perhaps what the foundation is best known for, working much the same as any benevolent fund, involving an applicatory process detailing how much money is being applied for and why.
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organization created after considerable thought, as "an appropriate way to give back something extra to the comics world," by providing grants for self-publishers. While Eastman founded
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was thought to go on hiatus in 2008, and the franchise's future beyond its on-screen presence was uncertain, but staff confirmed that this was not the case. It was confirmed on
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downsized to the more common American comics format and size, and the previous four issues were also reprinted in this size and format with new color covers. Also in 1985,
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How To Draw Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
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969:Lambiek Comiclopeida
942:Comics Buyer's Guide
933:Miller, John Jackson
919:Comics Buyer's Guide
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638:The Xeric Foundation
443:Dover, New Hampshire
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