Jim Lawson
Jim Lawson at the 2008 New York Comic Con
Born	(1960-02-19) February 19, 1960 (age 64)
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, Penciller, Artist, Inker, Letterer
Notable works	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Collaborators	Peter Laird

Jim Lawson (born February 19, 1960)^[1] is an American comic book writer and artist best known for his work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. Lawson created the Rat King and also co-created the series Planet Racers with Peter Laird. He is also the writer/artist of the black-and white-comic series Paleo: Tales of the Late Cretaceous. For more than 20 years he was a writer and artist of TMNT comics, but in 2009 he announced that he would depart from TMNT^[2] following Peter Laird's sale of the property to Viacom.

Lawson graduated from Housatonic Valley Regional High School.^[3]

Career

In 2013 Lawson launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new project, a graphic novel series called Dragonfly.^[4]

Lawson was a participant in the 1988 drafting of the Creators' Bill of Rights.^[5]

On February 19, 2019, Lawson launched a Kickstarter campaign for his independent graphic novel and trade paperback, Dragonfly and Hellride. The campaign offered a reward for $1500, to the buyer who received the book's property rights.^[6]