SWEET TOOTH TO END WITH DOUBLE-SIZED #40 IN DECEMBER

As announced to on the DC COMICS/VERTIGO BLOG, Issue #40, shipping in December of this year will be the FINAL ISSUE of my monthly series SWEET TOOTH.

To be clear, THE BOOK HAS NOT BEEN CANCELLED by DC Comics. The decision to end Sweet Tooth is totally my own and based on the natural conclusion of the story I've been building over the last three years. I'd like to thank Dan Didio, Geoff Johns, Jim Lee and Karen Berger for all of there support of the book. I'd also like to thank all of the amazing editors I've worked with on Sweet tooth, Bob Schreck, Brandon Montclare, Pornsak Pichetshote, Greg Lockhard and Mark Doyle.

My full thoughts on the conclusion of Sweet Tooth can be read here  on Vertigo's Blog and you can also read my collaborator Jose Villarrubia's thoughts here.

Fans of Sweet Tooth, and my other creator owned work, can expect announcements on my next creator owned projects later this year!

Until then, Gus, Jepperd and I thank you for all of your the support. The final storyline, THE WILD KINGDOM, begins with #36 and will conclude with a DOUBLE-SIZED, FULLY-PAINTED #40 in December and I'm confident in saying that it will be the best work I've ever done! Also Issues 36-39 will feature 4-interlocking covers that create one big Sweet Tooth image. The first part of which is featured above!

STUMPTOWN COMICS FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND!

I'll be attending the STUMPTOWN COMICS FESTIVAL in Portland, OR this weekend.

I'll be signing and sketching at at TABLE A-1 and also participating in a number of panels as well as a workshop. My full schedule below!

SATURDAY APRIL 28

12-12:45 • Top Shelf presents Nate Powell and Jeff Lemire ROOM B114This panel focuses on the work of two of Top Shelf's most celebrated creators, Nate Powell and Jeff Lemire. Nate Powell will discuss his past work as well as two new projects, The Silence of Our Friends and The Year of the Beasts. Jeff Lemire's Essex County trilogy was a huge hit, leading to his acclaimed Vertigo series, Sweet Tooth. Since then Jeff has also found great success writing Animal Man for DC. Top Shelf is proud to publish his latest original graphic novel, The Underwater Welder.

SUNDAY APRIL 29

4-4:45pm • Making Comics: From Script to Inks ROOM B113Eisner nominated cartoonist Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Essex County) takes you step-by-step through the creation of a page for an upcoming issue of his acclaimed DC/Vertigo series Sweet Tooth. From script to layouts to inks, Lemire will demonstrate how he breaks down a script, lays out a page and pencils and inks the final art. Learn what tools, techniques and tricks he employs to create his comics. This interactive workshop will allow fans and fellow cartoonists to interact with Lemire and ask questions as he works on a page of Sweet Tooth live.


5-5:45pm • Quit Your Day Job ROOM B113Having a career in comics can seem like an impossible goal, but people achieve it all the time. This panel features a wide variety of cartoonists, Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth), Joelle Jones (Troublemaker), Daniel Duford (The Green Man of B Street) and BT Livermore (Baby Otto Zeplin), who gather together to discuss their various careers in the world of comics. Moderator Ryan Alexander-Tanner (Dave's Killer Bread) talks with each of them about the ups and downs of their unique career paths.

BATMAN by Damon Lindelof and Jeff Lemire!

As announced in USA TODAY, I have drawn a new Batman story written by Damon Lindelof , the co-creator of LOST and the screenwriter behind Star Trek and Prometheus!

"While comic-books fans usually live for Wednesdays, when new issues of their favorite books arrive in their local shops, DC Comics aims to make every day a new comics day. And on Thursdays beginning in June, a new digitalBatman series will showcase stories of the Dark Knight outside of regular DC Comics continuity and feature artists and writers such as Ben Templesmith, Steve Niles, B. Clay Moore, Nicola Scott and Joshua Hale Fialkov. One all-star issue teams writer — and Lost co-creator —Damon Lindelof with artist Jeff Lemire (Animal Man, Sweet Tooth)." -USA TODAY

New Graphic Novel -THE UNDERWATER WELDER - in JULY!

My next original graphic novel, THE UNDERWATER WELDER will debut at San Diego Comicon this July and ship to stores soon after.

There is a new interview about the project at NEWSARAMA, and a preview at CBR!

The Underwater Welder

by Jeff Lemire

$19.95 (US)

ISBN 978-1-60309-074-2

Pre-Order

Pressure. As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from his young wife, and their unborn son. But then, something happens deep on the ocean floor. Jack has a strange and mind-bending encounter that will change the course of his life forever. ... Equal parts blue-collar character study and mind-bending science fiction epic, The Underwater Welder is a 250-page graphic novel that explores fathers and sons, birth and death, memory and truth, and treasures we all bury deep down inside.

SHIPPING IN AUGUST 2012!

You can Pre-order now at TOP SHELF or at your local comic book shop or book store.

KID ETERNITY in JULY!!

As announced today by WIRED MAGAZINE, DC Comics will be launching NATIONAL COMICS this July. The series will include a series of extra-sized one-shots spotlighting new takes on obscure or little known characters. The first issue is one of my favourite old DC and Vertigo Characters, KID ETERNITY, written by me with art by the talented CULLY HAMNER (his amazing cover featured above).

So make sure to let your local comic shop know to reserve you a copy of this special 48-page story, described below!

NATIONAL COMICS #1: KID ETERNITY, written by Jeff Lemire with art by Cully Hamner will center around Eternity. This is the story of police coroner Christopher Freeman. After being given a second chance on life, he finds himself with the ability to resurrect the dead. Freeman uses his new ability to help those he resurrects to find their murderers and to gain closure, so they can continue to the other side.

THREADLESS COMICS ON TEES VOL.5

THREADLESS.com has announced the line-up for there 5th volume of "COMICS ON TEES" and I'm part of the group doing a cool retro sci-fi story written and designed by JEFFREY BROWN. My T-Shirt will be revealed April 16!

Here's a sneak peek of Comics-On Tees Vol. 5 "Space-Time!" written and designed by Jeffrey Brown, with additional designs by Jeff Lemire, Anders Nilsen, and Paul Hornschemeier

We will have Vol. 5 available at our C2E2 booth April 13-15 and launching it on the site April 16th!

5 New Comics in May!

DC released their solicitations for their May comics this week and I have 5 new books coming that month! Among them are my very first issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK (Ryan Sook's amazing cover featured above). So make sure to ask your comic shop to pre-order you a copy!

Also, Issue 33 of Sweet Tooth will ship that month. Like Issue 18, this will be another storybook type issue done in a "sideways" format.

And then there is a triple dose of ANIMAL MAN as well. Animal Man #9 will ship along with Animal Man Annual #1 which features a brand new 48-page original story written by me and drawn by Timothy Green II.

And, my final issue as writer of FRANKENSTEIN: AGENT oF SHADE will be released as well, featuring Frank battling The Rot on the trail of Animal Man!