David Wise

Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Randall Lobb

Peter Laird, Kevin Eastman

In the spring of 1984, a strange new comic book sat beside cash registers in select shops, too big to fit in the racks, and too weird to ignore. Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles presented a completely original breed of super hero. It was too bizarre, too crazy. It broke all the rules and should never have worked. Until it sold out. Again and again and again. For 30 years. Now, peek under the shell and see how this so-called "happy accident" defied every naysayer to become one of the most popular and beloved franchises in the world.

Defenders of the Earth Movie: The Book of Mysteries

David Wise

Adam Carl, Buster Jones

The Defenders discover part of Morocco has vanished and fight to bring it back. But what is the connection to the book Kshin is reading for school?

The Live Wires V. S. Mack Namara or the Napalm is Burning a Hole in my Credit Card!

David Wise

The Mozart of cinema takes his final bow.

Short Circuit

David Wise

Wise began experimenting with animation and live-action film at the age of seven, under the tutelage of several artists and experimental filmmakers, including Len Lye, Francis Lee, and Stan VanDerBeek. Wise created dozens of brief animations using cut-outs, scratch-on-film techniques, as well as conventional cel animation. In 1963, at the age of eight, Wise released a compilation of his experiments, titled "Short Circuit". Distributed by the Filmmakers' Cooperative, "Short Circuit" was shown throughout the world, won several awards, and was the U.S. entry in the "Child & the World" festival in Czechoslovakia. Writing in the Village Voice, filmmaker and critic Jonas Mekas called Wise "the Mozart of Cinema."

Triple Spice

David Wise

Featured in Jonas Mekas' "Summing up the Year 1968." A collection of short experiments from 1963 to 1967.