Peter Laird

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter Laird
Occupation	Cartoonist
Date Of Birth	Jan 27, 1954(1954-01-27)
Age	70
Birthplace	North Adams
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Capricorn

Peter Laird Biography

Peter Laird is one of the most popular and richest Cartoonist who was born on January 27, 1954 in North Adams, Massachusetts, United States. The most well-known creator and co-creator for The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic books The cartoonist and author also released an illustrated comic book titled Stupid Heroes and co-wrote a graphic novel called Planet Racers.

He along with He and Kevin Eastman co-wrote the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics. co-wrote the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics.

Peter Alan Laird (born January 27, 1954) is an American comic book writer and artist best known for co-creating the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with writer and artist Kevin Eastman.

With the success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Eastman and Laird hired a core group of artists to help with the increasing workload, beginning with Eastman’s high school friend Steve Lavigne, brought on in 1984 as a letterer.

He as well as his brother Don were raised at North Adams, Massachusetts.

Peter Laird Net Worth

Peter Laird is one of the richest Cartoonist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Laird 's net worth $20 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

At the beginning of his career He was an illustrator for the Northampton, Massachusetts newspaper and created artwork for The Oracle, a magazine. The Oracle.

He founded a non-profit artistic grant organization , called The Xeric Foundation.

Laird was born on January 27, 1954 in North Adams, Massachusetts. Toward the end of 1983, Laird was earning just ten dollars an illustration from a local newspaper in Dover, New Hampshire. He was also doing illustrations for fanzines like The Oracle.

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The creative side of the Foundation involves the usual application process, but in addition, the Foundation began with “an advisory committee made up of three… people working in the industry” whose input is sought on how best to proceed with each application. Submissions are evaluated prior to Laird’s involvement, and then he makes the ultimate decisions based on their recommendations. Laird stated in 1993 that: “…knock on wood, God willing, and the creek don’t rise, if we go on for another couple of decades, and I’m able to put more money into the basic funding of the Xeric Foundation, then the amount of money that can be given out can really be raised significantly.” He hoped that ultimately the figure can be raised from “thousands of dollars” to “hundreds of thousands of dollars,” to support an increasing number of large and small projects.

Facts & Trivia

Peter Ranked on the list of most popular Cartoonist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Peter Laird celebrates birthday on January 27 of every year.

Since that time, Laird has been able to find time to pursue some other comic book work, including publishing Stupid Heroes, and the graphic novel trilogy, Planet Racers, with Jim Lawson. Even this ties into the TMNT, however, since the 2003 TMNT series has episodes based on the Planet Racer’s theme.

What happened to Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird?

Eventually Laird yielded, but it was all for naught. The show flopped hard with critics and audiences, and was canceled after just one season. Not long after, Eastman surrendered his rights to the franchise to Laird , which marked the official divorce from his friend and professional partner.

Why did Peter Laird sell TMNT?

Laird believes that the reasoning was simply that Eastman “was just tired of it. He wanted to move on and has other things to spend more time on.” On October 19, 2009, Laird sold the franchise to Viacom/Nickelodeon, but still retains the rights to do up 18 black-and-white TMNT comics per year.

Are Eastman and Laird friends again?

They fell out a long time, after creative differences. But now the creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird are together again. They were reunited by the Netflix show The Toys That Made Us, who were doing a TMNT episode, got them together again.

What happened to Laird from TMNT?

Since that time, Laird has been able to find time to pursue some other comic book work, including publishing Stupid Heroes, and the graphic novel trilogy Planet Racers, with Jim Lawson. Even this ties into the TMNT, however, since the 2003 TMNT series has episodes based on the theme of Planet Racers.

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Biographical information
First appearance| Wish for Death
Death| The Last Ronin
Created by| Kevin Eastman Peter Laird Tom Waltz Esau Escorza Isaac Escorza