'Hallowieners'.
Born in Lodi, Ohio, 2 May 1962, Ryan Brown graduated from Norwayne High School in 1980. He grew up on a farm and started his career in high school by drawing T-shirts for fundraising events and then moved on to creating artwork for local businesses in the area. He self-published comic books and wrote and drew a weekly comic strip for the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, which was collected into a comic book from Mirage Studios.
'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'.
Ryan was hired by Kevin Eastman en Peter Laird, the creators of the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles', as an artist in 1985 and shortly after moved to Northampton Massachusetts. There Ryan worked on the 'Tales of the Teenage Mutant Turtles' comic book title and produced licensing art for many TMNT products. He then had an idea to helm the new 'Archie Turtles' comic series and was handed the reigns with his writing partner Dean Clarrain. Ryan grouped some of his TMNT action figure characters together for the 'Mighty Mutanimals' and with Steve Murphy created a new Archie Comic book series. Mirage Studios also published his 'Hallowieners' comic book in 1989.
In 1990, Ryan's comic book idea 'The Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa' was animated for Saturday Morning ABC television. It spawned a host of licensed products and aired for two seasons (1992-93 & 1993-94). The series also ran on the Disney Channel for three years.
'Cowboys of Moo Mesa' and 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'.
Ryan has worked producing books for top publishers and has illustrated characters from Disney, Warner Bros. and JIm Henson's 'Sesame Street'. Characters as Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Big Bird, Hanna-Barbera's Flintstones and even characters from Star Wars have flowed from his pen.
Brown still illustrates children's books and has co-founded a new children's book company called Coloralot Books. Coloralot also produces a line of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles coloring books. One of Ryan's early Mirage Studios characters, Leatherhead the alligator, was resurrected for the new Ninja Turtles TV show in the 2000s.
Leatherhead.