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

Casablanca Comics

Rick Lowell and Laura O'Meara

Portland, ME
151 Middle Street

4-Colour, 8-Bit Comics & Games

346 Princess Street

Kingston, Ontario

K7L 1B7

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!

Announcing THE GREAT SWEET TOOTH RETAIL CONTEST!!

Sweet Tooth Vol.2: In Captivity ships to bookstores and comic book shops everywhere on DECEMBER 8th and to celebrate I'm offering a contest to ANY COMIC BOOK OR BOOK RETAILER:

The shop that creates the BEST IN STORE DISPLAY promoting Sweet Tooth and/or Sweet Tooth Vol.2 will win this piece of original artwork (the cover from Sweet Tooth #15), as well as a complete signed set of all of my books, and any other goodies I can dig up.

To enter the shop owner need to send me pictures of the display via email no later than MONDAY DECEMBER 6, along with an exterior shot of your shop and the address of the store. All entries will be featured on this blog on Dec. 8. My wife and I will determine the winner based on both the creativity and impact of the overall presentation.

Rules:

-Contest open internationally to any comic book or book retailer

-This contest is being put on solely by me, and is in no way connected to DC Comics or Vertigo.

-The contest is completely subjective, and the winner my wife and I choose will be final, and not subject to debate.

ESSEX COUNTY AND CANADA READS 2011!

Some pics from the Canada Reads reception at CBC yesterday! Also a link to an interview in The Windsor Star, my hometown paper.

ESSEX COUNTY NAMED ONE OF THE TOP FIVE ESSENTIAL CANADIAN BOOKS OF THE DECADE!

Meet the Canada Reads 2011 contenders

November 24, 2010 11:00 AM

Canada Reads unveils 2011 panel, books

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CBC News

Singer Sara Quin will defend graphic novel Essex County by Jeff Lemire. (CBC)

CBC's 2011 Canada Reads book panel will for the first time consider a graphic novel, after panellist Sara Quin chose Essex County by Jeff Lemire.

Quin, who is part of the music duo Tegan and Sara, is defending the graphic novel about the trials of a Canadian rural community.

Quin said she knows the graphic novel genre well and believes Essex County can be considered literature because of its "incredible characters and wonderful stories."

"The illustrations are so beautiful and so profound and tell a story all on their own," she said, speaking via video link at a press conference Wednesday.

Canada Reads announced its panellists and their choice of books for 2011 at the press conference.

The other panellists are:

• Actor Lorne Cardinal, who will defend Unless by Carol Shields.
• Former hockey pro Georges Laraque, who will defend The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou.
• TV personality Debbie Travis, who will champion The Birth House by Ami McKay.
• CNN journalist Ali Velshi, who will argue in favour of The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis.

Each of the 2011 panellists chose books from a list of 10 created after Canadians weighed in on the most significant Canadian books of the last 10 years.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/11/24/canada-reads-panel.html#ixzz16EjhktrK

SWEET TOOTH GOES HORIZONTAL IN FEBRUARY

SWEET TOOTH #18 Written by JEFF LEMIRE Art and cover by JEFF LEMIRE After the explosive conclusion of “Animal Armies,” Jepperd and his new traveling companions begin a long trek north in search of answers in this stand-alone issue. But as the first snowfall of the year hits, mistrust and fear threaten to tear the group apart before they even get started! This story will be presented in a special, horizontal storytelling format. On sale FEBRUARY 2 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US MATURE READERS

Sweet Tooth Cover Being Auctioned!

The Cover Art for Sweet Tooth #10 will be auctioned tomorrow night at The Gladstone Hotel in Toronto as part of a charity fund-raiser for JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH. Details below. Any non-Toronto residents who are serious about placing a bid on the art contact me via email and we can arrange to place a bid for you and have the work shipped. Bidding will start at 200, but covers generally sell for 1000, so this is a chance to get one for a good price!

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