Kevin Eastman

Kevin Brooks Eastman (born May 30, 1962) is an American comic book artist and writer best known for co-creating Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles with Peter Laird. Eastman is also the editor and publisher of the magazine Heavy Metal.\n', ' Eastman was born in Portland, Maine. He attended Westbrook High School in Westbrook, Maine with comic book illustrator Steve Lavigne. He is Jewish.\n', ' In 1983 he worked in 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 and the two collaborated for a short time on various comics projects.\n', '