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Comics log: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Artobiography

Containing a ton of sketches and never before seen TMNT artwork, 
accompanied by Kevin Eastman's commentary, this book gives the fans 
an insight into the creative process behind the Mirage run of the 
series. You follow the drawings from their initial idea to the 
finished product, and it's cool to see the difference between the 
pencil sketches, the inked versions, and the print ready "two tone" 
artwork. Overall, I wish they had cut down the amount of "thumbnail" 
pages to 1/10th, and instead had given a select few of them a lot 
more space on the pages. It's a shame that the raw material hasn't 
been scanned in higher resolution, and isn't presented in a truer 
version. The book fails to illustrate out the material difference 
between pencil sketches, different color ball point pens, different 
types of paper, etc, used in the production of the artwork. The 
"Sketchbook One" section of the book has a better approach to 
presenting the sketches, however. A fun fact - Kevin Eastman had 
drawn NYC as a setting in several issues of TMNT before he ever 
visited the city himself.