Jeff Lemire

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Jeff Lemire at New York Comic Con on October 12, 2012

Jeff Lemire (born March 21, 1976 in Canada ) is a Canadian comic book writer and author of the Essex County Trilogy , Sweet Tooth , The Nobody and The Underwater Welder . Lemire is known for his moody, humanistic stories and sketchy, cinematic black and white drawing style.

biography

Lemire was born and raised on a small farm in Essex County, Ontario , near Lake Erie . He attended film school, but then decided to take up comics when he realized that filmmaking didn't go as well with his solitary personality.

After he published the Xeric Award-winning comic Lost Dogs on his own initiative in 2005 , he was signed by Top Shelf Productions. The Essex County Trilogy , which appeared between 2008 and 2009, was his first work for Top Shelf and received an Eisner Award and a Harvey Award nomination.

Lemire published a science fiction comic strip under the name Fortress in the quarterly UR Magazine .

In 2009 DC Comics Vertigo released the comic The Nobody , a two-tone story about identity, fear and paranoia in a small place. Lemire currently writes and draws the monthly, color comic series Sweet Tooth , also for Vertigo. He also wrote the One Shot Brightest Day: Atom with Turkish artist Mahmud Asrar for the DC Universe , which is said to be the springboard for a future new Atom story by Adventure Comics . He also introduced the Superboy series with the main character Conner Kent.

In early June 2011 it was announced that the comic Tales from the Farm will be filmed by John Dykstra under the title Super Zero , with John Carr to write the script and Steven Gilder and Alex Chorches to act as producers.

In August 2012, his third book The Underwater Welder was published , which was nominated for two Harvey Awards.

With the first issue of Trillium , Lemire's current eight-part comic series was published by Vertigo in August 2013.

Jeff Lemire lives in Toronto , Canada with his wife and son .

Works

Books

  • 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 .
      • Additional short stories The Essex County Boxing Club and The Sad and Lonely Life of Eddie Elephant Ears.
      • Bonus material such as: unused promotional drawings, removed scenes, character designs
  • The Nobody ( Graphic Novel , Vertigo , 2009)
  • The Underwater Welder (Graphic Novel, Top Shelf Productions, 2012)

Rows

  • The Fortress (comic strip in UR Magazine , June – September 2006)
  • Bio-Graphical (three one-page comic strips in the Canadian Driven magazine, June – December 2008)
  • House of Mystery (with Matthew Sturges , Issue 18: The Tale of Brutus the Bold , Vertigo, 2009)
  • Sweet Tooth (Vertigo, 2009-2012)
  • Brightest Day: Atom (with Mahmud Asrar , One Shot , DC Comics , 2010)
  • Strange Tales II (one edition: A Civilized-Thing , Marvel , 2010)
  • Atom (with Mahmud Asrar, 10 pages in Adventure Comics , DC Comics, 2010–2011)
  • Superboy (11 issues with Pier Gallo, DC Comics, 2011)
  • Strange Adventures (one edition: Ultra the Multi-Alien: The Life and Death of Ace Arn , Vertigo, 2011)
  • Flashpoint: Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown (with Ibraim Roberson , DC Comics, 2011)
  • Jonah Hex (with Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti , 69th Edition: The Old Man , Vertigo, 2011)
  • Animal Man (with Travel Foreman , DC Comics, since 2011)
  • Frankenstein, Agent of SHADE (with Alberto Ponticelli , DC Comics, since 2011)
  • Justice League Dark (with Mikel Janin , DC Comics, since 2012)
  • Trillium (Vertigo, since 2013)
  • The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage (DC Black Label, TBA)
  • Joker: Killer Smile (DC Black Label, TBA)
  • Descender # 1-32 (with Dustin Nguyen , Image , 2015-2018)
  • Black Hammer (with various artists, Dark Horse Comics , since 2016)
    • Black Hammer # 1–13 (with Dean Ormston, 2016-2017)
    • Black Hammer: Age of Doom # 1–… (with Dean Ormston, since 2018)
      • Black Hammer - Volume 3: Age of Doom, Part One # 1–5, 136 pages, 2019, ISBN 1506703895 , German: Black Hammer Vol. 3: Age of Doom Book 1 , 136 pages, splitter, 2019, ISBN 978- 3-96219-040-8
    • Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil # 1–4 (with David Rubín, 2017-2018) together with Black Hammer # 12 compiled in Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil , 152 pages, 2018, ISBN 978-1-50670-526- 2 , German: Black Hammer: Sherlock Frankenstein & the Devil's Legion , 152 pages, Splitter, 2018, ISBN 978-3-96219-083-5
    • Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows # 1–4 (with Max Fiumara, 2018) compiled in Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows , 128 pages, 2018, ISBN 1506706592 , German: Black Hammer: Doctor Star & das Reich der lost hope , 128 pages, sliver 2019, ISBN 978-3-96219-039-2
    • The Quantum Age # 1–6 (with Wilfredo Torres, 2018-2019) compiled in The Quantum Age , 176 pages, 2019, ISBN 1506708412 , German: Black Hammer: Quantum Age , 176 pages, splitter 2019, ISBN 978-3- 96219-041-5
  • Gideon Falls # 1–… (with Andrea Sorrentino, Image , since 2018)

Short stories

  • The Essex County Boxing Club in The Collected Essex County , also numbered and signed in a limited edition mini-comic available (Top Shelf Productions, 2009)
  • The Sad and Lonely Life of Eddie Elephant Ears. in The Collected Essex County , also numbered and signed in a limited edition available as a mini-comic (Top Shelf Productions, 2009)
  • The Old Silo 10-page short story in Dark Horses Noir collection (Dark Horse, 2009)
  • The Horseless Rider 5-page short story in Awesomer: Indie Spinner Anthology 2 (Top Shelf Productions)
  • Coffin for Mr. Bishell 10-page short story in Outlaw Territory Vol. 2 , Collection of Image Comics , 2011
  • The CBLDF Presents Liberty Annual Issue Eleven: Being Normal (with Mark Waid , 2011)

Drawing only

  • Beowulf only. 5 (5 pages of drawings) (Speakeasy Comics, March 2006)
  • The Tale of Brutus the Bold (written by Matthew Sturges, in House of Mystery No. 18, Vertigo, 2009)

Self-published

  • Ashtray 1 (mini comic, June 2003)
  • Ashtray 2 (mini comic, September 2003)
  • Lost Dogs (September 2005)
  • True North (February 2006)

Awards

Lemire won a Xeric Award in 2005 for his book Lost Dogs . In the same year he received the Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association for Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm , as well as the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Cartoonist and the Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent .

Lemire was also nominated for an Ignatz , four Harveys and two Eisner Awards.

Essex County was the first comic ever to be voted into the bottom five of Canada's Canada Reads book competition .

literature

Web links

Commons : Jeff Lemire  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeff Lemire. Top Shelf Productions, accessed September 10, 2010 .
  2. ↑ a b Jamin Brophy-Warren: Tales of the Country: Jeff Lemire shrugs off comics' urban obsession. The Wall Street Journal , August 27, 2009, accessed September 10, 2010 .
  3. ↑ John Geddes: 'Sweet Tooth' like Mad Max with antlers. USA Today , November 19, 2009; accessed September 10, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Jeffrey Renaud: Out of the Woods with "Sweet Tooth". Comic Book Resources, February 5, 2010, accessed September 10, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Jeffrey Renaud: Lemire Embiggens Ray Palmer. Comic Book Resources, April 13, 2010, accessed September 10, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Vaneta Rogers: JEFF LEMIRE on SUPERBOY Ongoing: "The Best of Two Worlds". Newsarama, May 14, 2010, accessed September 10, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Russ Fischer: Legendary Effects Guru John Dykstra to Direct 'Super Zero'. / Film, June 6, 2011, accessed June 7, 2011 .
  8. ↑ 2013 Harvey Award Nominees Announced. In: Comic Book Resources. Boiling Point Productions, July 15, 2013, accessed July 17, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Vaneta Rogers: LEMIRE Treads New Creative Ground With New Vertigo Series TRILLIUM. In: Newsarama. TechMediaNetwork, Inc., August 6, 2013, accessed August 8, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Biography in The Nobody (DC / Vertigo, 2009).
  11. ↑ Shaun Manning: Lemire on "Essex County" & New Vertigo Work. Comic Book Resources, July 7, 2009, accessed September 10, 2010 .
  12. ↑ Jeff Lemire: 2 HARVEY AWARD NOMINATIONS! July 4, 2012, accessed July 5, 2012 .
  13. ↑ ESSEX COUNTY by Jeff Lemire is one of Canada Reads' top 5 novels of the decade! Top Shelf Productions, November 24, 2010, accessed November 24, 2010 .
  14. ↑ Jeff Lemire: ESSEX COUNTY NAMED ONE OF THE TOP FIVE ESSENTIAL CANADIAN BOOKS OF THE DECADE! November 24, 2010, accessed November 25, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Lemire, Jeff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian comic book writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Canada