Jeff Lemireis a prolific, award-winning comic book writer and
artist from Ontario, who's known for creating literary stories
depicting the frailties, fears, and hopes of the human
condition.
He's worked extensively with all the major comic book publishers,
penning well-received runs onAnimal Man,Green Arrow,Hawkeye, andOld
Man Loganfor DC and Marvel. His creator-owned works, which are even
more highly aclaimed, includeThe Underwater Welder,The Essex County
Trilogy,andLost Dogsfrom Top Shelf Productions;Descender,A.D. After
Death(with Scott Snyder,) andRoyal City, from Image; andSweet
Tooth,Trillium, andThe Nobodyfrom Vertigo. His original graphic
novelRoughneckwas published by Simon and Schuster in 2017.
Jeff won the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book
Cartoonist in 2008 forEssex County, and again in 2013 forThe
Underwater WelderandSweet Tooth. He's been a nominee for multiple
Eisner awards, a Harvery Award, and the Ignatz
Award.DescenderandThe Underwater Welderhave both been optioned for
major motion pictures.
He lives in Toronto with his family.
"The most spectacular episode of The Twilight Zone that
was never produced. I really, really care about the people in this
story... And I can pretty much guarantee you will too." — From
the introduction by Damon Lindelof (LOST, Star
Trek, Prometheus, The Leftovers)
"With The Underwater Welder, Jeff Lemire has created a moving,
brilliant, and fiercely original work about loss, longing, and
love. Full of piercing moments that will stay with you for long
after you've finished reading, The Underwater Welder is a
testament to the basic truth that down in the depths or up on land,
there's nothing more haunting and wondrous than the human heart. A
masterpiece of visual storytelling." — Scott Snyder
(Batman, Wytches, American Vampire)
"Lemire’s stylized art and inventive panel structure is the perfect
vehicle for his well-told story, and the tale’s poignant moments
make the moments of desolation even more heart-wrenching... A
beautiful, moving, wholly satisfying story about fatherhood and
growing up." — Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
"[Lemire] has not lost his ability to pack an emotional
wallop." — George Gustines, The New York Times
"A striking evocation of the Canadian Maritimes, and a moving
meditation on what haunts us and how we struggle to keep those
specters at bay. And the use of ink wash has rarely been put to
more apt use." — Dana Jennings, The New York
Times
"The Underwater Welder... is all kinds of wonderful. Buy it. You
will wet yourself with tears, your brain will spin from masterful
storytelling, and you will love it." — Jeff
Jensen, Entertainment Weekly
"Haunting... Underwater Welder is just the right blend of action
and abstraction, and greatly enhanced by Lemire's ability to signal
movement, time and distance through clever arrangement of his
panels on the page." — Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
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