{"product_id":"9781496839091-jeff-lemire","title":"Jeff Lemire","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConversations\u003cbr\u003eIn the interviews collected in \u003cem\u003eJeff Lemire: Conversations\u003c\/em\u003e, readers see Lemire come to understand the process of collaboration, the balancing act involved in working for different kinds of comics publishers, the responsibilities involved in representing characters outside his own culture, and the possibilities that exist in the comics medium.\u003cbr\u003eIn a 2019 interview with the webzine \u003ci\u003eDC in the 80s\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario—his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC material, how influential \u003ci\u003eCrisis on Infinite Earths\u003c\/i\u003e and DC’s \u003ci\u003eWho’s Who\u003c\/i\u003e were on him as a developing comics fan, his first reading of \u003ci\u003eWatchmen\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Knight Returns\u003c\/i\u003e, and his transition to reading the first wave of Vertigo titles when he was sixteen. In other interviews, he describes discovering independent comics when he moved to Toronto, days of browsing comics at the Beguiling, and coming to understand what was possible in the medium of comics, lessons he would take to heart as he began to establish himself as a cartoonist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Many cartoonists deflect from questions about one’s history with comics and the influences of other artists, while others indulge the interviewer briefly before attempting to steer the questions in another direction. But Lemire, creator of \u003ci\u003eEssex County Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSweet Tooth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nobody\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTrillium\u003c\/i\u003e, seems to bask in these discussions. Before he was ever a comics professional, he was a fan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What can be traced in these interviews is the story of the movement from comics fan to comics professional. In the twenty-nine interviews collected in \u003ci\u003eJeff Lemire: Conversations\u003c\/i\u003e, readers see Lemire come to understand the process of collaboration, the balancing act involved in working for different kinds of comics publishers like DC and Marvel, the responsibilities involved in representing characters outside his own culture, and the possibilities that exist in the comics medium. We see him embrace a variety of genres, using each of them to explore the issues and themes most important to him. And we see a cartoonist and writer growing in confidence, a working professional coming into his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55180242059638,"sku":"9781496839091","price":98.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38248682_fb89c16a-a9d3-4ad3-8e74-03e1cf37737a.jpg?v=1763862654","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496839091-jeff-lemire","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}