In 1991, Mirage Studios secured an interlocutory injunction against Counter-Feat Clothing for similar designs of drawings. Farley was eventually invited to be part of the studio and crafted many paintings and comic artwork for the TMNT until his departure from the studio to resume his freelance business in 2004. Peter Laird also invited Farley to do issue #29 of the TMNT comic. Farley to do cover paintings for the TMNT collected books. In 1989, Kevin Eastman invited freelance illustrator A.C. With the addition of these four core artists along with Peter and Kevin, Mirage's Ninja Turtles output would expand over the next couple of years to include numerous Mirage Studio spin-off titles, as well as a companion comic book entitled Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In the following year, two new members were added, penciler Jim Lawson from Connecticut and New Jersey's Michael Dooney who would paint a number of covers.
Brown would be the first in a long line of artists, other than Eastman and Laird, that would work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. In 1985, Eastman and Laird hired artist Ryan Brown to assist them as an inker for the Turtles.
The first addition to the studio roster was Eastman's high school friend Steve Lavigne, brought on in 1984 as a letterer. With the success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Eastman and Laird hired a core group of artists to help with the increasing workload. Mirage then moved to Sharon, Connecticut, and stayed there for two years before ending up in Northampton. Less than a year before TMNT #1 was published in May 1984, Eastman and Laird began experimenting with numerous series. The company was named "Mirage" because there was no actual company. Mirage Studios was started back in 1983, in Dover, New Hampshire.
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