Lemire's GHOST STORIES named Best Indy Book of the Year by G4tv!

Blair Butler of G4tv announced her picks for the Best Comics of the Year on the ATTACK OF THE SHOW program. To watch the cool video, JUST CLICK HERE. It's the last part of the video, as she announces all her best superhero picks first, and then ends by awarding both Jeff Lemire's GHOST STORIES (Top Shelf) and Adrian Tomine's SHORTCOMINGS (D&Q) as the two books that tied for "Best Indy Comic Of The Year". Thanks, Blair! Very cool.

Grumpy Owl

Here's a new illustration I did for my friend Ryan's blog ...

LESTER LIVES!

Happy New Year. Check out this amazing Lester Action-Figure my talented wife, Lesley-Anne Green, made for me for Christmas!

In other news Steve Duin of the Oregonian named GHOST STORIES the Best Graphic Novel of 2007!

IT'S A CHRISTMAS (MISTER) MIRACLE....

ROM EXHIBITION

NON-PROFIT FUNDRAISER FOR BILL MANTLO FEATURING OVER 100 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF ROM SPACEKNIGHT BY ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.

(illustration by Renee French)

Thursday, Dec. 6th, 6-10pm. Show runs through Jan. 1st.

This December our First Thursday show is a tribute to my favorite comic character of all time, ROM Spaceknight, and the man who brought his adventures to life, Bill Mantlo. There will be over 100 contributors including: Jeffrey Brown, Sal Buscema, Guy Davis, Renee French, Simon Gane, Ken Garduno, Brandon Graham, Maureen Gubia, Kevin Hooyman, Corey Lewis, Al Milgrom, Jeff Parker, Ron Rege Jr, Zack Soto, Peter Thompson, Gordon Wiebe, Danijel Zezelj and more! A silent auction will be held for original art, and 11×17” poster prints of every contribution will be available for a suggested donation of $5 or more.

(l to r: Jeffrey Brown, Jonathan Case, Jim Rugg, Pete Toms, Jeff Lemire, Ricardo Venancio, Hyeondo Park, Simon Gane)

NOW LEAVING ESSEX COUNTY...

I've been AWOL from the blog lately, it has been an incredibly busy time of year for me as I've been working to finish Essex County Vol.3 before the holidays. And, I'm happy to say that I have indeed done just that, Essex 3: The County Nurse is completely finished, scanned, lettered! (a never before previewed scene above and below...)


After 3 years working on the Essex County books, it feel REALLY GOOD to be done with the project. Moreover, I am really excited to move on to news ideas and new projects. I have started writing and designing my next book, which will be published by Top Shelf. I'm not ready to let the cat out of the bag yet, but in the new year I'll have much more news about the book. But, I will say it is something I'm really excited about, it will be very different from the Essex books, but I think it will still appeal to those fans too.

On other news, my wife is currently exhibiting her work at The One of a Kind Show in Toronto, and I've traded in my brush and pen in for a couple of weeks to help her out.

And, I also thought I'd throw in my picks for the Best Comics of 2007, in no particular order...

1)Notes For A War Story-Gipi (First Second)



















2) Dr. Thirteen: Architecture and Mortality- Brian Azerrello and Cliff Chiang (DC)

3) SuperSpy-Matt Kindt (Top Shelf)

4) Scalped-Jason Aaron (DC/Vertigo)


5) Shazam and The Monster Society of Evil-Jeff Smith (DC):



6) Garage Band-Gipi(First Second)

My publisher Top Shelf has a great sale on right now at their website, including a great deal on my books, so check it out!