ANNOUNCING THE SWEET TOOTH LAUNCH PARTY!

JEFF LEMIRE’S SWEET TOOTH
Book Launch Party

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 – 7:30pm
@ The Lillian H. Smith Library, 239 College St
FREE TO ATTEND

Presented by The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Toronto Public Library, The Beguiling, and DC Comics/Vertigo

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TORONTO, Ontario – The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is gearing up to take Toronto’s comic book and graphic novel fans by storm on Saturday May 8^th and Sunday May 9^th, and they’re please to announce their first satellite event! Featured TCAF guest and award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire will be will be premiering the first book of his new monthly post-apocalyptic sci-fi comic book series Sweet Tooth: Out of the Dark Woods, at a special event on Wednesday, May 5^th, 2010—just days before TCAF!

Set in a grim, post-apocalyptic future (that looks suspiciously like Southern Ontario…) Sweet Tooth Volume 1: Out of the Dark Woods is an epic road-trip science fiction graphic novel, sure to be equally enjoyed by fans of Lemire’s haunting Essex County Trilogy and contemporary superhero and sci-fi comics. The Book Launch will take place at the Lillian H. Smith Library, home to the prestigious Merril Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, a non-circulating library collection which includes a vast selection of graphic novel material. The event starts at 7:30pm sharp in The Lillian H. Smith Library auditorium, 239 College St. (just east of Spadina Ave.) with doors open at 7pm.

The event will be hosted by SPACE’s Mark Askwith, and feature a reading, interview, and Q&A session with the audience. Jeff Lemire will be signing and sketching in advance copies of Sweet Tooth Vol.1: Out Of The Deep Woods, available for sale on-site a full week before its official in-store release!

In addition, the event will feature a display of over 50 pieces of original artwork from Sweet Tooth, including interpretations of Sweet Tooth’s world and characters by renowned Toronto and international cartoonists including Jeffrey Brown, Matt Kindt, Ray Fawkes, and Noel Tuazon!

Following the evening event there will be an after-party and mixer for comics fans and neophytes alike at O’Grady’s Pub, 171 College Street (Just down the street from the Lillian H. Smith Library).

Jeff Lemire’s complete catalogue of work, including Sweet Tooth, The Nobody, and The Essex County Trilogy, will be available for purchase at the event courtesy of The Beguiling Books & Art (www.beguiling.com).

Jonah Hex!

A couple of recent Jonah Hex drawings...

SNEAK PEEK AT SWEET TOOTH #7 ON Sale Wednesday!

Find out what happens next Wednesday!

SWEET TOOTH VOl.1 COMING MAY 12!

The first Trade Paperback collection of my monthly Vertigo series SWEET TOOTH will be available everywhere May 12. It is available now for pre-order from your local book shop, comic book store and right here through amazon!

"Writer and artist Jeff Lemire has created the new 'must read' book with SWEET TOOTH."— GEOFF JOHNS

"Spellbinding and offbeat . . . emotionally charged." — USA TODAY "

"A grabber from the get-go..."— THE ONION

The first five issues of Jeff Lemire's acclaimed new series introduce Gus, a rare new breed of human/animal hybrid who was raised in isolation following a pandemic that struck a decade earlier. Now, with the death of his father, he's left to fend for himself . . . until he meets a hulking drifter named Jepperd, who promises to help him. Jepperd and Gus set out on a post-apocalyptic journey into the devastated American landscape to find 'The Preserve,' a refuge for hybrids.

• Vertigo
• 128pg.
• Color
• Softcover
• $9.99 US
• Mature Readers

On Sale May 12, 2010

SWEET TOOTH by EMI LENNOX!

Here's a great new rendition of Gus by Portland cartoonist Emi Lennox.

I've talked about how much I like Emi's work before, and right now she's getting ready to put together her first mini-comics, and needs your help. Emi is taking donations on her blog to help with the costs of printing her first books, so go help a rising comics talent get her start!

She will do a sketch f0r anyone who donates $5 or more!

THE PUNISHER!

Lone Ranger, Zorro and Rocketeer

Last year at San Diego Comicon I did these three commissions for a fan. If you are out there I need to contact you, but seem to have lost your info. Email me if possible. Thanks!