JEFF LEMIRE ORIGINAL ART FOR SALE

My original artwork from Sweet Tooth, Trillium as well as a few smaller projects is now available through CADENCE COMIC ART and many pieces are on sale for the holiday season.

Click here to visit the site and browse the artwork.

 

CBC News reveals JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED’s new Cree superhero EQUINOX

Today, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) NEWS debuted an exclusive first look of the new JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED Cree superhero EQUINOX!

JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED scribe Jeff Lemire spoke with the CBC about his research, creating a new Canadian character from northern Ontario, his excitement to set the story in his home country and working with artist Mike McKone.

Check out the video with Lemire from his studio and a gallery of photos including character design sketches of Equinox, here. 

And where possible, tune into The National on the CBC tonight for an exclusive report featuring writer Jeff Lemire and his trip to Moosonee/Moose Factory with host Eli Glasner.  

JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED #0, written by Lemire (ANIMAL MAN, GREEN ARROW, TRILLIUM) and illustrated by Mike McKone (TEEN TITANS, GREEN LANTERN), launches April 23, 2014.

JUSTICE LEAGUE CANADA becomes JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED A New Ongoing Series in April!

Last Summer, DC Comics and I announced that I would be taking over as the writer of the comic book series Justice League of America, along with artist Mike McKone, and changing the title to Justice League Canada in 2014.

Since then I have been working steadily on the book, and my plans for the series continued to expand and grow and DC and I mutually agreed that the Canada title was too limiting for the cosmic scope the series was taking. As a result, JLA will be ending in April and my book will become a brand new ongoing series called JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED!

Justice League United will launch in April with an extra-sized Zero Issue followed by #1 in May.
And the first storyline will be titled: Justice League Canada.

The team will still be based in Canada and the book will still introduce a brand new First Nations Canadian superhero to the DC Universe. More details on this new character, her origin and her powers, will be released in the weeks to come.

The roster of the new Justice League team will be a collection of some of my favourite DC characters: ANIMAL MAN, GREEN ARROW, STARGIRL, MARTIAN MANHUNTER, ADAM STRANGE, SUPERGIRL, ALANNA STRANGE and HAWKMAN. The JLU's headquarters will be set in Moosonee, Ontario and their missions will juxtapose adventures firmly set in rural Canada with more cosmic, planet-hopping high adventure around the galaxy.

More details about the new series can be found in a recent interview I did with USA Today...

TORONTO STAR'S PEOPLE TO WATCH IN 2014: Jeff Lemire brings Justice League to Canada

I've been featured in today's Toronto Star as one of the "People to Watch in 2014". The article includes a new interview and some new details about my upcoming JUSTICE LEAGUE CANADA project for DC Comics. The new Justice League series launches in April and will be drawn by the amazing Mike McKone. More details will be announced very soon...

In addition, Tom Spurgeon at The Comic's Reporter has another new interview with me up on his blog.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

SWEET TOOTH and TRILLIUM ORIGINAL ART ON SALE!

My original artwork from Sweet Tooth, Trillium as well as a few smaller projects is now available through CADENCE COMIC ART and many pieces are on sale for the holiday season.

Click here to visit the site and browse the artwork.

 

Simon & Schuster acquires new graphic novel Jeff Lemire

Simon & Schuster acquires new graphic novel from New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lemire

New York, NY, Toronto, Ontario—October 10, 2013—Jeff Lemire, the award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of Essex County and The Underwater Welder, will publish Roughneck, a new graphic novel, with Simon & Schuster and Simon & Schuster Canada, it was announced today. This literary graphic novel follows the story of a former hockey player forced to face his demons and reconnect with his Cree heritage when his troubled sister comes running home to the remote northern town where he now lives. Roughneck will be published in 2015.

Derek is a former hockey tough guy whose quick rise to the NHL was cut short when a brutal on-ice incident left him banned from professional hockey for life. Now, four years later, Derek has returned to Black River, his hometown in Northern Ontario, not far from the Moose Cree First Nation, where his mother grew up. Derek’s slide into alcoholism and depression is interrupted when his long-lost sister, Annie, returns home trailing a violent ex-boyfriend. Together, the two escape to the woods, where they struggle to reconnect with the traditions of their Cree ancestors in order to escape their past and gain redemption.

Brit Hvide of Simon & Schuster acquired world English rights from Charlie Olsen of Inkwell Management.

Ms. Hvide commented, “We’re absolutely honoured to be publishing Roughneck. It’s a story about cycles—the way patterns, memories, and people return to us, again and again, whether we want them to or not. Jeff is one of those unique storytellers whose books speak to readers across all genres, and we think that Roughneck will be his finest work yet.”

Kevin Hanson, Publisher of Simon & Schuster Canada, commented, “We are thrilled to add Jeff to our emerging list.  His graphic novels are inspiringly original and explore ideas that are deeply Canadian.”

Jeff Lemire is the New York Times-bestselling creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, and The Underwater Welder and the sci-fi love story Trillium. Jeff is also a prominent writer for DC Comics, where he currently writes the monthly adventures of Green Arrow and Justice League of America. He has also written the monthly adventures of Superboy, Animal Man, and The Atom, among many others. In 2008 and 2013, Jeff won the Shuster Award for Best Canadian Cartoonist. He has also received The Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent and the American Library Association’s prestigious Alex Award, recognizing books for adults with specific teen appeal. He has also been nominated for 7 Eisner awards, 7 Harvey Awards, and 8 Shuster Awards. In 2010, Essex County was named as one of the five Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade by the CBC. He currently lives and works in Toronto with his wife and son.