This week we talk about Jeff Lemire!
Writer, Artist and Cartoonist
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Jeff Lemire: Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller
Born: March 21, 1976 (age 42) Essex County, Ontario, Canada
Notable Works
Essex County Trilogy
The Nobody
Sweet Tooth
Animal Man
Green Arrow
Black Hammer
Gideon Falls
Awards
Xeric Award, 2005 Lost Dogs
YALSA Alex Award, 2008Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm
Joe Shuster Award, 2008 Outstanding Cartoonist
Doug Wright Award, 2008 Best Emerging Talent
Joe Shuster Award, 2009 & 2013 Outstanding Canadian Cartoonist (recognizing his work on Sweet Tooth and The Underwater Welder)
Eisner Award, 2017 Black Hammer
He has also been nominated for 6-8 Eisner Awards, 5-7 Harvey Awards and 6-8 Shuster Awards.
After self-publishing the Xeric Award-winning comic book Lost Dogs in 2005 via his Ashtray Press imprint, Lemire found a home at Top Shelf Productions.
This 104-page mythic yarn follows a family man who's larger than life... but even he may not be powerful enough to prevent the loss of everything he's ever known.
Lemire wrote and illustrated Essex County Trilogy for Top Shelf
Lemire wrote and illustrated the full-colour Vertigo series Sweet Tooth
Gus, a young boy with deer features, lives a quiet life deep in the woods with his father. He learns many things, from medical care to religious prophecy. Though he loves his religious father, he yearns to escape as he learns that there is not fire past the trees, but simply more land.
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