One should note that over the intervening decades, certain properties like TMNT became so pervasive that one could absorb them almost by osmosis, even if one were a hermit trying to avoid pop culture altogether. Not to mention the fact that I actually drew a couple of TMNT stories for Archie and Mirage Studios as a freelancer in the late eighties and early nineties, so I got something of an on-the-job education first hand!
I was the age it would have hit hardest. I had all of that stuff. I drew ducks. It was the 80's.
I suspect the comic fad hit so fast, you must have realized it wasn't a bandwagon you wanted to ride. At best you would have become known as the "Megaton Mice" guy. TMNT went super-nova and sucked all of the 'mutant-animal' air out of the room anyway.
Honestly, now is the time to strike! The world aches for this.
I really resonated with your comment on 1980s influences being too late in your life experience to influence you. I am 64 and by the time TMNT appeared, I was out of high school and active in life, too busy for much to do with comics. It wasn't until the 1990s that I reacquainted with comics, many your titles, and I was far more judicious on what I invested time and money into. I probably won't understand the parody of the TMNT since I have not read them.
One should note that over the intervening decades, certain properties like TMNT became so pervasive that one could absorb them almost by osmosis, even if one were a hermit trying to avoid pop culture altogether. Not to mention the fact that I actually drew a couple of TMNT stories for Archie and Mirage Studios as a freelancer in the late eighties and early nineties, so I got something of an on-the-job education first hand!
Don, did you ever do weekly strips? I don't remember.
I was the age it would have hit hardest. I had all of that stuff. I drew ducks. It was the 80's.
I suspect the comic fad hit so fast, you must have realized it wasn't a bandwagon you wanted to ride. At best you would have become known as the "Megaton Mice" guy. TMNT went super-nova and sucked all of the 'mutant-animal' air out of the room anyway.
Honestly, now is the time to strike! The world aches for this.
I really resonated with your comment on 1980s influences being too late in your life experience to influence you. I am 64 and by the time TMNT appeared, I was out of high school and active in life, too busy for much to do with comics. It wasn't until the 1990s that I reacquainted with comics, many your titles, and I was far more judicious on what I invested time and money into. I probably won't understand the parody of the TMNT since I have not read them.