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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Artist Steve Lavigne at The Toyman Toy Show in St. Louis Sunday December 8th – We Are Movie Geeks

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Artist Steve Lavigne at The Toyman Toy Show in St. Louis Sunday December 8th

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The Toyman Toy Show in St. Louis has been going strong for over 30 years now and just keeps getting bigger and better! The fun now takes place nine times a year at The Machinists Hall 12365 St Charles Rock Road in Bridgeton, MO 63044. There are over 120 vendors at the Toyman Toy Show spread out over 220 tables. all selling vintage toys, comics, dolls, diecast cars, movie memorabilia, and more as well as cosplayers and artists. It’s an unbelievable amount of fun for only $5! A Facebook invite for the event can be found HERE

The next Toyman Show is Sunday, December 8th from 9:00a to 3:00p and TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Artists Jeffrey Edwards and Steve Lavigne will be special guests.

Steve Lavigne is an American comic book illustrator best known for his lettering and coloring on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title for Mirage Studios. He is the creator of Cudley the Cowlick, Sgt. Bananas, and Stump and Sling.

Steve was the very first artist employee hired by Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird (co-creators of TMNT/Mirage Studios) back in 1985.

He and Kevin Eastman attended high school together and it has been revealed in various interviews with Eastman, that Michelangelo’s personality is actually based on Steve.

Steve began by lettering TMNT comics, coloring graphic novels and covers.
He later became Licensing Artist and Licensing Art Director.
Steve was the artist responsible for creating most of the officially licensed TMNT artwork seen on merchandise/toy/video game/product packaging back in the late 80’s & early 90’s. He has produced art for Playmates, Burger King, Konami, Redbook Magazine, Yes Entertainment and more. He also created TMNT characters Sergeant Bananas, Screwloose, Cuddly Cowlick, Code Name Chameleon among others.
Steve continues to do covers for IDW TMNT books, tours via comic conventions and takes commissions regularly.
He also owns Shellback Artworks. Shellback Artworks is a Facebook page whereby fans can view current art projects, con schedule, purchase vintage & new comics/art/memorabilia and/or request commission work.
Contact info: shellbackartworks@yahoo.com or

other guests include:

Jeff Edwards He is a professional comic book artist originally from just outside of Kansas City Missouri. After graduating with a Masters Degree in Comic Book Illustration from The Academy of Art University in San Francisco, he landed his first published project creating comic book art to be used in a series of articles written for Australia’s pop-culture driven magazine FilmInk.
His most recent credits include penciling and inking the GI Joe #266 and Transformers #1 variants exclusive to One Stop Comic Shop for IDW Publishing, penciling and inking Warlock 5 for Outland Entertainment, penciling Benchmark 5 for Essential Comics, penciling Greyfell for Squint Comics, Extermination for BOOM! Studios, as well as working on TMNT art for the special edition of Secret History of the Foot Clan for IDW.
He has also provided illustrations for table-top games such as Fire and Ax: A Viking Saga, Kings of Air & Steam: World’s Fair, Manhattan Project: Energy Empire and others.
He was the artist for the create-your-own adventure comic-style mobile app This Is Not A Test produced by Robot Monster Productions.

Over 125+ Vendors on 225+ tables of Toys, Comics, Games, Movie posters, Barbie, Hot Wheels, Die-Cast, Models, Pop Culture and a TOTALLY OPEN BALCONY.

Adult Admission at the Toyman Show: $5.00 – Children 16 & under free. Sunday: 9:00am – 3:00pm. Early Bird @ 8:00a – $12.00 – * FREE PARKING *

The Toyman Toy Show site can be found HERE