Marvel Mania

Here a some of the paintings I did for the San Diego Con. I am now offering similar painting of your favorite superhero or comic character for $40 + shipping.

Just pay below, and email me with your request! I also accept cheques made out to Jeff Lemire. Each painting is 6"x8''. I'll upload more samples soon! I will also draw any characters from my own comics!

San Diego ReCap: Part1

Had an amazing weekend at the San Diego Comic Con with the Top Shelf crew. Got to meet some of my idols, like Eddie Campbell and Bill Sienkewicz, and I got to spend some quality time with my fellow Top Shelfers. The Affable Andy Hartzel, Dazzling David Yurkovich, Jumpin' Jeremy Tinder, Arresting Andy Runton, Rollicking Rob Vendetti, 'Mazing Matt Kindt, Battlin' Brett Warnok...ok, you get the point.




David Yukovich handed me some of his great alternative superhero comics, Death By Chocolate and Less Than Heroes. He also gave me his AMAZING BILL MANTLO retrospective book! This is a great read and really opened my eyes to one of Comocdom's often overlooked writers. I highly recommend it to all fanboys. David also does a killer Stan Lee impersonation which made the hours fly by in a fit of laughter.




Jeffrey Brown's Incredible Changebots is a must read as well. It's a fantastic and hilarious book! Jeffrey and I will be signing at the Top Shelf booth at TCAF August 18-19 in Toronto by the by.

And, of course there was spectacle...lots of freaky spectacle for all...

NEW TALES FROM THE FARM CHAPTER

I'll be at the San Diego Comicon this week with Top Shelf, and I'll have these limited edition Tales From The Farm Cut-Out Dolls in tow. They come with an all new Tales mini-comic inside!


I'm only printing 75 of these, and they will also be available at TCAF. They are also available here through pay pal/mail order for $5.

NEW ALBUM ART

Here's an album cover I just finished for the band Orphan Quire and Unwelcome Guests.

MY TOP TEN

Just because it was on my mind, and I'm the kind of guy who likes to make lists...

My Top Ten Favorite Comics (in no particular order):

1) Alec:The King of Canute Crowd- Eddie Campbell
2) Hicksville- Dylan Horracks
3) Cages- Dave McKean
4) Louis Riel- Chester Brown
5) From Hell- Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
6) Watchmen- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
7) The New Frontier- Darwyn Cooke
8) Cyde Fans Co- Seth
9) The Girlfriend Trilogy- Jeffrey Brown
7) Crisis on Infinite Earths- Marv Wolfman + George Perez

Honorable Mentions:
Ghost World, Ice Haven, Davis Boring-Dan Clowes
Black Hole- Charles Burns
Swamp Thing- Alan Moore and various
Jimmy Corrigan- Chris Ware

The Amazing Gregory Benton...

Just wanted to give another shout out to GREGORY BENTON, a great artist and fine host who put me up in New York City a few weeks back. Greg's work can be found here!

ESSEX COUNTY VOLUME 2: GHOST STORIES IN THE CURRENT PREVIEWS CATALOGUE!

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The second volume of my Essex County trilogy of graphic novels is in the current Previews catalogue for a September release. I guess I should actually start working on it soon, eh? ...kidding. In all honestly, I am extremely proud of the book. It is the longest project I've undertaken (224 pages) and it was a real marathon working on it, but I really feel it is the best thing I have ever done. It is a huge leap forward for me both visually and as a writer and I'm really excited to get it out there.

And, for those put off by the hockey content, please give it a chance, Hockey is indeed a central part of the narrative, but it is about a whole lot more than that...specifically how betrayal, loss and guilt push and pull at the fabric of family in small town life. So, while hockey is used as a central metaphor, the book is no more a sports story than Tales From The Farm was a super- hero story. And, for those who do love sports and old-time hockey, I think you'll get a real kick out of it as well.

Here's the synopsis from Top Shelf's Website, written by the main man Chris Staros himself:

ESSEX COUNTY (V 2): GHOST STORIES by Jeff Lemire If you haven't read Jeff's first book, Essex County (Vol 1): Tales from the Farm, then pick it up right now, as you're not going to want to miss his second volume, Ghost Stories. Jeff is one of the most amazing new cartoonists to hit the comics community in years, and these two books are absolutely gorgeous and profoundly emotional. Ghost Stories is the second volume in a trilogy of graphic novels set in a fictionalized version of Lemire’s hometown of Essex County, Ontario. Ghost Story follows the lives and relationship of brothers Lou and Vince Lebeuf over the course of nearly seven decades. In this volume, eldest brother Lou, now a deaf and lonely man, lives out his final days on his farm full of guilt and regret for the decisions he made that tore his family apart. From their childhood on the farm, to Toronto in the 1950’s (where they both played professional hockey), Lou revisits his life, a silent observer haunting his own memories.

224 pages, Graphic Novel, Diamond Order Code: JUL073879, ISBN 978-1-891830-94-5, $14.95 (US)

SHIPPING IN SEPTEMBER!

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