Jeff Lemire
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| Jeff Lemire | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1976 Essex County, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller |
| Notable works | Essex County Trilogy The Nobody Sweet Tooth |
| Awards | Xeric Award, 2005 YALSA Alex Award, 2008 Joe Shuster Award, 2008 Doug Wright Award, 2008 |
| Official website | |
Jeff Lemire (born 1976[1] in Canada) is an award-winning Canadian cartoonist, and the author of the Essex County Trilogy and The Nobody. Lemire is known for a his moody, humanistic stories and sketchy, cinematic, black-and-white art.
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[edit] Biography
Lemire was born and raised in a small farming town in Essex County, Ontario, near Lake Erie.[2] Lemire attended film school, but decided to pursue comics when he realized that filmmaking didn't suit his solitary personality.[2]
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. He produced the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated Essex County Trilogy for Top Shelf in 2008–2009.
Lemire serializes a science-fiction strip called Fortress in the quarterly UR Magazine.
In 2009, DC/Vertigo published Lemire's The Nobody, a two-color tale of identity, fear and paranoia in a small community. Lemire is currently writing and drawing the new monthly full-color Vertigo series Sweet Tooth.
He currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is married and has a son.[3]
[edit] Awards
Lemire won a Xeric Award in 2005 for his book Lost Dogs. He was a 2008 recipient of a Young Adult Library Services Association Alex Award for Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm. Lemire received a Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Award for Outstanding Cartoonist in 2008, and the Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent in 2008.
Lemire has also been nominated for an Ignatz, a Harvey, and two Eisner Awards.[4]
[edit] Exhibitions
In 2006 Lemire's work was included in an international symposium gathering artists, scholars, curators, publishers, librarians, critics, and writers at the Banff Center. Lemire's work was part of the "Comic Craze" exhibit, which showcased Canadian comics and narrative fiction.[1]
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Full Book
- Lost Dogs (self-published "Ashtray Press", 2005)
- Essex County Trilogy:
- Tales From The Farm (Top Shelf Productions, 2008)
- Ghost Stories (Top Shelf Productions, 2008)
- The Country Nurse (Top Shelf Productions, 2009)
- The Collected Essex County (Top Shelf Productions, 2009)
- Contains the three main stories "Tales From The Farm", "Ghost Stories" and "The Country Nurse"
- Added short stories "The Essex County Boxing Club" and "The Sad and Lonely Life of Eddie Elephant Ears."
- Bonus materials, such as: unused promotion art, a deleted scene, character designs and so on.
- The Nobody (Original Graphic Novel, DC/Vertigo, 2009)
[edit] Series
- Sweet Tooth Issue #1-? ([2009-ongoing], DC/Vertigo)
[edit] Collected series into Trades
- Out of the Woods collecting Sweet Tooth issues #1-5
[edit] Short Stories
- "The Essex County Boxing Club" found in the The Collected Essex County and signed and numbered limited edition mini-comic (Top Shelf Productions, 2009)
- "The Sad and Lonely Life of Eddie Elephant Ears." found in the The Collected Essex Countyand numbered limited edition mini-comic (Top Shelf Productions, 2009)
- "The Old Silo" found in the Dark Horse's NOIR anthology (Dark Horse, 2009)
[edit] Art Only
- House of Mystery (Vertigo) #18 written by Matthew Sturges- (“The Tale of Brutus the Bold”, DC/Vertigo, 2009)
[edit] Ashtray Press
- Lost Dogs (2005)
- True North
- Ashtray 1
- Ashtray 2
[edit] References
- ^ a b Lemire profile on the Top Shelf website.
- ^ a b Brophy-Warren, Jamin. "Tales of the Country: Jeff Lemire shrugs off comics' urban obsession," Wall Street Journal (August 27, 2009).
- ^ Biography from The Nobody (DC/Vertigo, 2009).
- ^ Manning Shaun. "Lemire on Essex County & New Vertigo Work," Comic Book Resources (July 7, 2009).
