Jim Lawson (born February 19, 1960)

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"Comics Industry Birthdays"
'' Comics Buyer's Guide'', June 10, 2005. Accessed January 1, 2011
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is an American comic book writer and artist best known for his work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. Lawson created the

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and also co-created the series '' Planet Racers'' with Peter Laird. He is also the writer/artist of the black-and white-comic series '' Paleo: Tales of the Late Cretaceous''. For more than 20 years he was a writer and artist of TMNT comics, but in 2009 he announced that he would depart from ''TMNT'' following Peter Laird's sale of the property to

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. Lawson graduated from Housatonic Valley Regional High School.

Career

In 2013 Lawson launched a

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campaign to fund a new project, a graphic novel series called ''

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''.Lawson, Jim (January 25, 2013 )
"DRAGONFLY: An adventure tale of dinosauric proportions!"

. Lawson was a participant in the 1988 drafting of the Creators' Bill of Rights."The Creator's Bill of Rights"
at scottmccloud.com. Retrieved February 19, 2013. On February 19, 2019, Lawson launched a Kickstarter campaign for his independent graphic novel and

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, ''Dragonfly and Hellride''. The campaign offered a reward for $1500, to the buyer who received the book's property rights.Lawson, Jim (February 2019 )
"Dragonfly and Hellride"

References

External links

Official siteJim Lawson's blog
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