Case Study: Jeff Lemire

Jeff Lemire is a Canadian award winning cartoonist and comic artist. I first came across his art work when I was working at OK comics and his book The Essex County Trilogy was displayed on the counter. Just after I found that, his Vertigo series Sweet tooth came out and I've been hooked ever since.



His other work includes The Nobody, a two-color tale of identity, fear and paranoia in a small community. Wrote the one-shot Brightest Day: Atom, with Turkish artist Mahmud Asrar, which was designed to act as a springboard for an Atom story to co-feature in Adventure Comics. His latest work was relaunching the Superboy series featuring the character Conner Kent.




Lemire's style of art is not the first thing that pops into a persons mind when you mention comic book art. However, it's a style that works, it's great for story telling and he's able to capture emotion so perfectly (especially in the later Sweet Tooth issue) Definitely one of my favourites.