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''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' is an American comic book series published by Mirage Studios, featuring the characters of the same name, with a 26-year run from 1984 to 2010. Conceived by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, it was initially intended as a one-shot, but due to its popularity it became an ongoing series. The comic inspired the franchise, four television series, five feature films, numerous video games, and a wide range of toys and merchandise. Over the years, the Turtles have appeared in numerous cross-overs with other independent comics characters such as Dave Sim's ''Cerebus'', Erik Larsen's ''Savage Dragon'', Bob Burden's ''Flaming Carrot'' and Stan Sakai's ''Usagi Yojimbo''. In 2009 Peter Laird sold the Turtles franchise to Viacom, the parent company of Nickelodeon, and as a result Mirage Studios had to shut down. At WonderCon 2011, it was announced that IDW Publishing had secured the rights to publish a new series and reprint the older comics. ==Origin of the concept== The concept originated from a comical drawing sketched out by Kevin Eastman during a casual evening of brainstorming with his friend Peter Laird. The drawing of a short, squat turtle wearing a mask with nunchakus strapped to its arms was humorous to the young artists, as it played upon the inherent contradiction of a slow, cold-blooded reptile with the speed and agility of Japanese martial arts. Laird suggested that they create a team of four such turtles, each specializing in a different weapon.〔(The fascinating origin story of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ), ''The Week''〕 Eastman and Laird often cited the work of Frank Miller and Jack Kirby as their major artistic influences. Using money from a tax refund together with a loan from Eastman's uncle, they formed Mirage Studios and self-published a single-issue comic book that would parody four popular comics of the early 1980s: Marvel Comics' ''The New Mutants'', which featured teenage mutants, ''Cerebus'', which featured anthropomorphic animals, ''Ronin'', and ''Daredevil'', which featured ninja clans dueling for control of the New York City underworld.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=I Was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle )〕 The Turtles' origin contained direct allusions to ''Daredevil'': the traffic accident between a blind man and a truck carrying radioactive ooze, a reference to Daredevil's own story, (indeed in the version told in the first issue, Splinter sees the canister strike a boy's face). The name "Splinter" also parodied Daredevil's mentor, a man known as "Stick." The Foot, a clan of evil ninjas who became the Turtles' arch-enemies, likens to the Hand, who were a mysterious and deadly ninja clan in the pages of ''Daredevil''.〔 After conceiving the Turtles' mentor as a rat who had come from Japan and was a ninja master, Eastman and Laird thought of giving the turtles Japanese names, but as Laird explained, "we couldn't think of authentic-sounding Japanese names". Instead they went with Renaissance artists, and picked the four they were most familiar with, with the help of Laird's copy of ''Janson's History of Art''.〔(Peter Laird Interview )〕〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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