JOSE VILLARRUBIA REFLECTS ON SWEET TOOTH

My wonderful collaborator, the talented colourist of Sweet Tooth, Jose Villarrubia, handed in his final beautiful colours for issue 40 of Sweet Tooth this morning. Afterwards he posted the comment below on his Facebook page. I thought I'd share it...

"I just realized, as I turn in the last pages of Sweet Tooth #40, the final installment of this saga, that at about a whooping 800 pages this has been by far my longest effort in comics, and in many big and small ways, the most satisfying. I 

owe it all to my dear friend Jeff Lemire, for trusting me with his baby, and also to the great editors: Bob Schreck, Brandon Montclare, Pornsak Pichetshote, Mark Doyle and Greg Lockard. But I specially want to mention Karen Berger, who broke the rules of the mainstream market so many times, enabling this, and many other types of book to exist, and has left the American market a better place. Without Karen's support you would not have read Sweet Tooth as it stands, and that would have been a shame..."

Jose Villarrubia - December, 2012

AMAZON CANADA PICKS UNDERWATER WELDER AS BEST GN OF 2012!

Amazon Canada has chosen THE UNDERWATER WELDER as the BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2012!

The book is now listed at 39% off for canadians and is also available through TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS.

JEFF LEMIRE ORIGINAL ART FOR SALE

Original artwork from my comics is available for sale from 2 different locations online:

CADENCE COMIC ART 

BEGUILING

SWEET TOOTH an UNDERWATER WELDER Included in THE NEW YORK TIMES' Gift Guide

The Underwater Welder and Sweet Tooth have both been included in The New Yortk Times' list of Graphic Novels for their 2012 Gift Guide!

Sweet Tooth Vol.5 laso made the New York Tines Graphic Novel Bestseller's list this week!

"I’ve come to anticipate any new work by the cartoonist Jeff Lemire with excitement. ‘THE UNDERWATER WELDER’ (Top Shelf, $19.95) is about a deep-sea welder coming to terms with fatherhood. The characters are completely relatable and so visually expressive that the words are almost redundant. Similarly engrossing is Mr. Lemire’s ‘SWEET TOOTH’ series, now on Volume 5, from the DC Comics imprint Vertigo, about a post-apocalyptic world populated by human-animal hybrids."

Click here to see the full list!

UNDERWATER WELDER makes Amazon's Top Graphic Novels of 2012

The Underwater Welder has been chosen as one of AMAZON'S Top Graphic Novels of 2012! You can see the full list here (which also includes books by my friends Scott Snyder, Jeffrey Brown and Brian Azzarello).

The Underwater Welder can be ordered from AMAZON here or From Top Shelf at their site.

GREEN ARROW 17 Now Available For Pre-Order!

GREEN ARROW #17

Written by JEFF LEMIRE

Art and cover by ANDREA SORRENTINO

1:50 Variant cover by DAVID FINCH

“We Can Be Heroes” blank variant cover available

On sale FEBRUARY 6 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

• Welcome the new team of writer JEFF LEMIRE and artist ANDREA SORRENTINO!

• As Ollie struggles to come to terms with the loss of his fortune, his company and his heritage, he discovers a shocking truth about his father that ties to his time stranded on an island before he became Green Arrow.

• Plus: Green Arrow battles the deadly archer known as Komodo!

Issue 17 will be my first issue as the new writer of GREEN ARROW. It will also be a totally accessible jumping on point for new readers, so make sure you ask your local comic book store to reserve you a copy!

News and Updates

A couple of recent links I thought I'd share. The DC Comics Blog posted "5.2 Reason s Why Jeff Lemire Rocks" yesterday, and who am I to argue. You can check it by clicking out here.

ifanboy has a new video interview with me from New York Comicon

Boin Boing posted a nice review of SWEET TOOTH VOL.5 by Matt Kindt and myself