Jim Lawson

Jim Lawson (born February 19, 1960; 24 years old) is an American comic book illustrator best known for his work on the Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series at Mirage Studios, eventually becoming the series' main artist during volume 1 and remained throughout volumes 2 and 4. Lawson created the and, and also co-created the series  with Peter Laird, and is the writer and artist of the black-and-white comic series Paleo: Tales of the Late Cretaceous. For more than 20 years Lawson was the author and artist of TMNT comics, but in 2009, after Peter Laird's surprise sale of TMNT to Viacom, Lawson announced he was leaving Mirage. He still draws TMNT art which he posts on Facebook, and more rarely draws alternative cover art for the IDW comics as well as cover art for newer trade paperback releases of Mirage and Archie TMNT comics.

Jim Lawson was a participant in the 1988 drafting of the.

Mirage

 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #9: The Passing (September 1986) - inks (with Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Michael Dooney & Ryan Brown)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Book I (November 1986)
 * New Comic Day! - inks
 * Gobbledygook #1 (December 1986)
 * Crazy Man - inks (with Ryan Brown)
 * V1 #1: A Tale of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (May 1987) - layouts, pencils
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #4 (2nd printing, May 1987)
 * The Survival Game - pencils
 * Quest for Dreams Lost (July 1987)
 * Word Warriors - inks (with Ryan Brown)
 * Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #2: Nobody's Fool! (July 1987) - layouts, pencils
 * Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #3: All Hallow's Thieves (October 1987) - layouts, pencils, frontispiece (with Kevin Eastman)
 * Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #4: (January 1988) - story, pencils
 * Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #5: Complete Carnage and Radical (May 1988) - issue (with Ryan Brown & Steve Lavigne)
 * Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #6: Leatherhead (August 1988) - pencils
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #15: Dome Doom! (August 1988) - inks
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #3: The Great Chase (2nd printing, November 1988) - cover (with Peter Laird)
 * Complete Carnage an' Radical - inks
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #19: Return to New York, book one (March 1989) - cover, pencils
 * Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #7: The Return of Savanti Romero! (April 1989) - pencils
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #20: Return to New York, book two (April 1989) - cover, pencils
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #21: Return to New York, book three (May 1989) - cover, pencils
 * Shell Shock (December 1989)
 * Bottoming Out - pencils
 * Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 TPB (December 1989)
 * untitled Nobody story - script, pencils
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #28: (February 1990) - cover, pencils (with Kevin Eastman & Rick Veitch), inks (with Eastman & Veitch)
 * Michaelangelo: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (2nd printing, December 1990)
 * A Christmas Carol - story, art
 * Turtle Soup V2 #3 (January 1992)
 * Sweat, Sweat, Sweet Renet - with Michael Dooney, Mary Kelleher & Mary Woodring
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #48: Shades of Gray (June 1992, originally as "Shades of Gray, part 1") - script (with Peter Laird), pencils
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #49: Ripplings (July 1992, originally as "Shades of Gray, part 2") - script (with Peter Laird), pencils
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #50: City at War, part 1 of 13 (August 1992) - pin-up
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V1 #51-#62: City at War, part 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 of 13 (September 1992-August 1993) - script (with Peter Laird), pencils
 * TMNT V4 #1 (December 2001) - pencils
 * TMNT V4 #18 (October 2004) - pencils
 * Raphael: Bad Moon Rising #1: The Calling (July 2006) - pencils
 * Tales of the TMNT V2 #25: Kung-Fu Theatre (July 2006) - pencils
 * Raphael: Bad Moon Rising #2: The Taking (August 2006) - pencils
 * Raphael: Bad Moon Rising #3: The Catch (September 2006) - pencils
 * Raphael: Bad Moon Rising #4: The Win (October 2006) - pencils
 * Tales of the TMNT V2 #53: Alien Invaders (December 2008) - cover (with Steve Lavigne), script, pencils, inks
 * Tales of the TMNT V2 #60: Nobody Does It Better (July 2009) - cover (with Steve Lavigne), pencils
 * Tales of the TMNT V2 #63: Monster Island (October 2009) - pencils
 * Tales of the TMNT V2 #70: Zog (May 2010) - plot (with Eric Talbot), script, pencils, cover (with Talbot & Steve Lavigne)
 * Tales of the TMNT V2 #71: The Paradox of Chudnovsky (produced 2007, published 2011) - pencils, frontispiece (with Marina Prokopyeva & Arseniy Dubakov)

Other

 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (August 1990) - pencils
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic strip (December 1990-January 1997) - with other creators
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie II: The Secret of the Ooze (August 1991) - cover (with Steve Lavigne), pencils, inks
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up (September 2009) - cut scene illustrations (with Eric Talbot), pack-in comic book

Characters

 * Al'Falqa
 * Lucrezia (with Bill Moulage)
 * Cha Ocho (with Peter Laird)
 * Oroku Yoshi (with Peter Laird)
 * (with Stephen Murphy & Eric Talbot)
 * (with Stephen Murphy & Eric Talbot)
 * (with Stephen Murphy & Eric Talbot)
 * (with Stephen Murphy & Eric Talbot)