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Kevin Eastman's Drawing Blood Switches From Scout Comics To Image

Drawing Blood was a Kickstarter by Kevin Eastman, David Avallone, Ben Bishop and Troy Little about The Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls.

Published Sat, 20 Jan 2024 12:58:12 -0600

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Sat, 20 Jan 2024 13:02:35 -0600

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Article Summary

Kevin Eastman's Drawing Blood moves from Scout to Image Comics.
Eastman teams with Avallone, Bishop & Little on meta-narrative.
Comic follows a cartoonist's life after creating a hit franchise.
Drawing Blood relaunching as a twelve-issue series in April 2024.

Drawing Blood was a Kickstarter comic book by Kevin Eastman, David Avallone, Ben Bishop and Troy Little, a meta-narrative about Shane Bookman and Paul Bookman, the fictitious creators of the fictitious comic book The Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls. And co-created by the co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. You can see where they were going with this.

In 1992, Shane "Books" Bookman, and his brother Paul, released their scrappy indie creation on the unsuspecting comic book universe: The Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls. To their great surprise, everyone went wild for the adventures of three feline Katana wielding mutant cats, and a multi-million dollar franchise was born. After more than a decade and a half of global success – comics/action figures/movies and just about anything else you could sell with a Ragdoll on it — the creators imploded. Too young and too naïve to know how to handle the sudden pressures of wealth and fame, they split up, and the franchise eventually sold. Now "Books" is hitting his forties (hard), his money all gone, his artistic inspiration tapped out, and his very life in danger from the loan sharks his crooked business partner failed to tell him about before committing suicide. It's hard enough to recover from a catastrophic encounter with the hit and run driver called "early success," without having to worry about killers chasing you all over town. Drawing Blood is a dark-comic-drama (dramadey?), the story behind the stories, a look inside the twisted life of a professional cartoonist. A roller-coaster of show biz and sex, fame and infamy, controlled substances and uncontrolled artists, genius and goons, this series takes you into the darkest corners of a mad world only talked about in the hotel bars of a Comic Con. Drawing Blood is co-created by Eastman and Avallone, with scripts by Avallone. Primary art by Ben Bishop, with some sequences by Kevin Eastman and Troy Little and a Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls one-shot drawn by Little.

And at the retailer summit ComicsPRO in 2019, they announced that the series would be published for comic book stores in a twelve-issue series from Scout Comics. But we just got four issues, making up the first book. Last year, they launched a Kickstarter for the second volume of four issues; now it appears that we are getting the full twelve issues, coming out from Image Comics in April 2024.

DRAWING BLOOD #1 (of 12) by David Avallone, Kevin Eastman, Ben Bishop, Troy Little
SERIES PREMIERE The legendary KEVIN EASTMAN, co-creator of the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and former publisher of the popular Heavy Metal magazine, returns to comic with a look into the roller coaster life of a successful comics creator. When you create a global franchise before you turn twenty… what happens next? Readers will follow the jaw-dropping journey of Shane Bookman—a cartoonist whose real life has become more absurd and action-packed than any comic book story he could dream up!