Jeff Lemire is a prolific, award-winning comic book writer and
artist from Ontario, who's known for creating literary stories
depicting the frailties, fears, and hopes of the human
condition.
He's worked extensively with all the major comic book publishers,
penning well-received runs on Animal Man, Green Arrow, Hawkeye, and
Old Man Logan for DC and Marvel. His creator-owned works, which are
even more highly aclaimed, include The Underwater Welder,The Essex
County Trilogy, and Lost Dogs from Top Shelf Productions;
Descender, A.D. After Death (with Scott Snyder,) and Royal City,
from Image; andSweet Tooth,Trillium, and The Nobody from Vertigo.
His original graphic novel Roughneck was published by Simon and
Schuster in 2017.
Jeff won the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book
Cartoonist in 2008 for Essex County, and again in 2013 for The
Underwater Welder and Sweet Tooth. He's been a nominee for multiple
Eisner awards, a Harvery Award, and the Ignatz Award. Descender and
The Underwater Welder have both been optioned for major motion
pictures.
He lives in Toronto with his family.
"...Essex County delivers a collection of characters so
genuine that by the end you'll swear they're real." —Complex,
ranking Essex County as one of "The 25 Comic Books You Need To Read
Before You Die"
"It is a wonderful, thought-provoking, lovingly-produced work of
fiction. I'm still not sure that this review does the book justice.
I honestly cannot recommend this book enough." —Pajiba
"Lemire’s portraits of people are honest, and sad, and are full of
broken dreams. All of these characters are living lives different
than what they expected, and yet none of them really give up. And
that is why a comic like this is so important – it is far more
aspirational than a Batman story, even though no one in this book
could do what Bruce Wayne does. But all of us can pick ourselves
up, shake off the dust of disappointment, and try to live the best
lives we can." —Multiversity Comics
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