Editing Peter Laird (section)

==Early life and career==
Laird was born on January 27, 1954, in [[North Adams, Massachusetts|North Adams]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=CBG1650>''[[Comics Buyer's Guide]]'' #1650; February 2009. Page 107</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Miller|first=John Jackson|author-link=John Jackson Miller|url=http://cbgxtra.com/knowledge-base/for-your-reference/comics-industry-birthdays|title=Comics Industry Birthdays|work=[[Comics Buyer's Guide]]|date=June 10, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218031356/http://cbgxtra.com/knowledge-base/for-your-reference/comics-industry-birthdays|archive-date=February 18, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Lambiek>{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/laird.htm|publisher=[[Lambiek Comiclopeida]]|author=[[Kousemaker, Kees]]|title=Peter Laird|language=en|url-status=live|date=1994|access-date=August 1, 2022|archivedate=July 18, 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718174411/https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/laird.htm}}</ref> Toward the end of 1983, Laird was earning just ten dollars an illustration from a local newspaper in [[Dover, New Hampshire]].  He was also doing illustrations for fanzines like ''The Oracle''.<ref name="Rebels">Wiater, Stanley & [[Stephen R. Bissette|Bissette, Stephen R.]] (ed.s) ''Comic Book Rebels: Conversations with the Creators of the New Comics'' (Donald I. Fine, Inc. 1993) {{ISBN|1-55611-355-2}}</ref>