Monday, December 20, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
COVER MANIA! Sweet Tooth 19 and Superboy 5
Above the cover for SWEET TOOTH #19 by Emi Lenox (Emi Town), Nate Powell(Swallow Me Whole) and Matt Kindt (Super Spy) as well as myself and Jose Villarubia. It will be a special issue with 3 short stories each focusing on the pasts of one of Sweet Tooth's female characters.
And below the cover to SUPERBOY #5 by Eddy Barrows. This issue will featuer the first ever Superboy/Kid Flash Race!
Sweet Tooth By Rafael Albuquerque and more!
Above is a drop dead gorgeous piece of SWEET TOOTH art by the great Rafael Albuquerque! Rafael is the genius behind AMERICAN VAMPIRE along with my good buddy Scott Snyder. He also did the stunning and iconic cover to SUPERBOY #1. On top of all that Rafael is a great guy. I've had the pleasure of meeting him and and lovely wife a couple of times and he's a genuinely great person! We both want to do a project together some day too! Thanks Rafael!
SWEET TOOTH has been named one of the TOP TEN GRAPHIC NOVELS OF 2010 by NEW YORK Magazine!
And there is a new interview with me up at PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
New Sweet Tooth Art, Superboy Reviewed and more!
Superboy #2 (Published by DC Comics; Review by Teresa Jusino): I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: superhero titles that prominently feature teenagers are superhero titles at their best. The issues of identity and responsibility that come up in superhero comics are perfect metaphors for fumbling one’s way to adulthood. In the second issue of this wonderful new series, Superboy is forced to team up with Poison Ivy to solve the mysterious problem of overgrown plant life devouring Smallville. What makes this issue work is writer Jeff Lemire’s focus on Connor Kent’s relationship with his best friend, Simon, who has been begging Connor to allow him to be of help. When Simon rushes in to save the day by use of “Parasite frogs! Patent pending”, you know that these two boys are an excellent team. Lemire imbues this title with loads of humor, which is a change from his more serious-minded Sweet Tooth, and it’s interesting to watch Connor struggle with his new responsibilities and with wondering whether he should take his friend along for the ride, possibly endangering him. However, it’s clear that Simon’s intelligence is not to be underestimated, and I look forward to watching him and Superboy work together to fix an ailing Smallville.
And also, the first ever North American interview with Superboy artist Pier Gallo over at CBR!
And a brand new SWEET TOOTH interview at CBR as well.
And...A new Sweet Tooth blog with never before seen cover sketches over at GRAPHIC CONTENT.
And finally congrats to Lisa McCarty who won the new SWEET TOOTH drawing, featured above, off of my Twitter feed this morning!
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
SWEET TOOTH VOL.2 Out Today!
Sweet tooth Vol.2 is out today along with Superboy #2. Here's few new interviews and blogs about Sweet Tooth!
An exclusive look at the origins of the hybrid children in Sweet Tooth with behind the scenes artwork at COMICS ALLIANCE
3 new Sweet Tooth Blogs at GRAPHIC CONTENT
A new interview at i09
And an exclusive look at Vol.2 at USA TODAY/POP CANDY
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
SWEET TOOTH CONTEST WINNERS!
Thanks to all the great comic shops who entered the Sweet Tooth display contest, above is the winning display by Jennifer Haines and THE DRAGON in Guelph, Ontario. They win the cover art from SWEET TOOTH 15 as well as an in store signing by myself sometime in the new year!
Below are some of the the other great entries!
Chapel Hill Comics
316 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Sweet Tooth Display by Erin Gumbel
316 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Sweet Tooth Display by Erin Gumbel
Casablanca Comics
Rick Lowell and Laura O'Meara
Portland, ME
151 Middle Street
151 Middle Street
4-Colour, 8-Bit Comics & Games
346 Princess Street
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 1B7
Monday, December 6, 2010
OUT THIS WEEK: SWEET TOOTH VOL.2 and SUPERBOY #2!!
"Jeff Lemire's SWEET TOOTH is as heartbreakingly elegant as it is wholly original. One of the best comics I've ever read." -Damon Lindelof (creator of LOST)
Out this week Sweet Tooth Volume 2: In Captivity collecting issues 6-11 of the Eisner and Harvey nominated series from Vertigo/DC Comics! Also keep an eye on Vertigo's BLOG Graphic Content" for an exclusive blog post each day this week featuring never before seen behind the scenes artwork and info on the series.
Also out this week is the second issue of the new Superboy series!
Written by JEFF LEMIRE; Art by PIER GALLO; Cover by phil noto; 1:10 Variant cover by GUILLEM MARCH
The vegetation of Smallville is out of control, and all evidence points to Poison Ivy as the cause! Superboy's friend Simon thinks there might be more to this than meets the eye, but he'll have a hard time convincing Superboy of that now that he's in the thrall of Ivy!