As Kevin Eastman sat cross-legged in front of a mural at San Bernardino’s McDonald’s Museum, onlookers snapped photographs of the cartoonist recreating characters he’s brought to life for the better part of 35 years.

Eastman, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, spent three hours Friday, May 11, drawing Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael and Leonardo into a car navigating Phil Yeh’s fantasy rendering of San Bernardino.

Eastman also posed for pictures and handed out signed copies of his fantasy graphic novel “Underwhere.” At one point, he sketched a Turtle into a fan’s drawing notebook.

Kevin Eastman, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, adds the turtles to a mural at the McDonald’s Museum in San Bernardino on Friday, May 11. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, The Sun/SCNG)

Kevin Eastman, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, adds the turtles to a mural at the McDonald’s Museum in San Bernardino on Friday, May 11. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, The Sun/SCNG)

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Kevin Eastman, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, adds the turtles to a mural at the McDonald’s Museum in San Bernardino on Friday, May 11. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, The Sun/SCNG)

Kevin Eastman, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, adds the turtles to a mural at the McDonald’s Museum in San Bernardino on Friday, May 11. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, The Sun/SCNG)

Kevin Eastman, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, adds the turtles to a mural at the McDonald’s Museum in San Bernardino on Friday, May 11. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, The Sun/SCNG)



Kevin Eastman, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, adds the turtles to a mural at the McDonald’s Museum in San Bernardino on Friday, May 11. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, The Sun/SCNG)

Fans watch as Kevin Eastman, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, adds the turtles to a mural at the McDonald’s Museum in San Bernardino on Friday, May 11. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, The Sun/SCNG)

San Bernardino resident Rory Murray records as Kevin Eastman, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, adds the turtles to a mural at the McDonald’s Museum in San Bernardino on Friday, May 11. Murray painted the car in which the turtles were placed. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, The Sun/SCNG)

Kevin Eastman, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, adds the turtles to a mural at the McDonald’s Museum in San Bernardino on Friday, May 11. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, The Sun/SCNG)

Kevin Eastman, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, poses with his work after adding the turtles to a mural at the McDonald’s Museum in San Bernardino on Friday, May 11. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, The Sun/SCNG)



Kevin Eastman, co-creator of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, adds the turtles to a mural at the McDonald’s Museum in San Bernardino on Friday, May 11. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, The Sun/SCNG)

The quartet, which celebrated its 34th anniversary earlier this month, joined a traffic jam featuring the Simpsons, as drawn by animator Phil Ortiz, and other cartoon characters. Nearby, Elvis and Muhammad Ali are depicted handing out hamburgers to hungry patrons.

Eastman, a longtime friend of Yeh’s, drew The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles full-bodied, in black and white, with their weapons.

Museum guests can see Leonardo steering the 1955 Corvette, with Michelangelo riding shotgun.