41 Facts About Jeff Lemire

Jeff Lemire is a Canadian comic book writer, artist, and television producer.

Jeff Lemire is the author of critically acclaimed titles including the Essex County Trilogy, Sweet Tooth, and The Nobody.

Jeff Lemire's written work includes All-New Hawkeye, Extraordinary X-Men, Moon Knight and Old Man Logan for Marvel; Superboy, Animal Man, Justice League Dark, and Green Arrow for DC; Black Hammer and Mazebook for Dark Horse; Descender and Gideon Falls for Image Comics; and Bloodshot Reborn for Valiant.

Jeff Lemire has collaborated with musicians such as Eddie Vedder on his Matter of Time animated video and Gord Downie on Secret Path, a multimedia storytelling project.

Jeff Lemire was born and raised in Woodslee, Ontario in Essex County, near Lake St Clair.

Jeff Lemire attended film school, but decided to pursue comics when he realized that filmmaking did not suit his solitary personality.

Jeff Lemire serialized a science-fiction strip called Fortress in the quarterly UR Magazine.

In 2006 Jeff Lemire's work was included in an international symposium gathering artists, scholars, curators, publishers, librarians, critics, and writers at the Banff Centre.

Jeff Lemire's work was part of the "Comic Craze" exhibit, which showcased Canadian comics and narrative fiction.

In October 2020, Jeff Lemire revealed that the show will commence filming in 2022 as a six-episode mini-series with himself serving as writer, showrunner, and producer.

Jeff Lemire wrote and illustrated the full-colour Vertigo series Sweet Tooth, published September 2009 to January 2013.

Jeff Lemire signed an exclusivity contract with DC Comics in December 2010.

Jeff Lemire moved over to the DC Universe to write the one-shot Brightest Day: Atom, with Turkish artist Mahmud Asrar, designed to act as a springboard for an Atom story to co-feature in Adventure Comics.

Jeff Lemire relaunched the Superboy series featuring the character Conner Kent.

In 2014, Jeff Lemire joined a team of writers composed of Brian Azzarello, Keith Giffen, and Dan Jurgens to co-write The New 52: Futures End, a new weekly series set five years into the New 52's future.

Jeff Lemire wrote Teen Titans: Earth One, an original graphic novel with art by Terry and Rachel Dodson published by DC Comics in November 2014.

At the 2014 New York Comic Con, it was announced that Jeff Lemire would be writing All-New Hawkeye, his first Marvel Comics title, with artist Ramon Perez, which began in March 2015, a follow-up to Matt Fraction's and David Aja's acclaimed run.

Bleedingcool reported in April 2015 that Jeff Lemire had signed an exclusivity contract with Marvel, which excluded his creator-owned work with Image and Dark Horse Comics, as well as his work with Valiant Entertainment.

In June 2015, Jeff Lemire was announced as a writer for three titles in the All-New, All-Different Marvel branding: All-New Hawkeye, with artist Ramon Perez, Extraordinary X-Men, with artist Humberto Ramos, and Old Man Logan, with artist Andrea Sorrentino.

In December 2014, Jeff Lemire launched The Valiant, a four-issue limited series, featuring characters from all over the Valiant line, co-written with Matt Kindt with art by Paolo Rivera.

The series features Bloodshot, a character Jeff Lemire approached by distilling the issues he had him and twisting the prototypical action hero into a more emotionally-driven story.

In March 2015, Jeff Lemire launched Descender, a creator-owned science fiction series with art by Dustin Nguyen, from Image Comics.

The series is Jeff Lemire's first creator-owned ongoing series not illustrated by himself.

However, in April 2015 Jeff Lemire stated that the series had been delayed indefinitely due to a cerebral hemorrhage suffered by Ormston.

In 2017, Jeff Lemire launched The World of Black Hammer, a series of Black Hammer spinoff titles.

Jeff Lemire will be drawing backup stories featuring the last adventures of Plutona.

The graphic novel, which Jeff Lemire wrote, illustrated, and painted, follows a former hockey player's slide into depression as interrupted by the arrival of his sister, and was scheduled to be published in October 2016.

AD: After Death, a graphic novel written by Scott Snyder and illustrated by Jeff Lemire, was announced at Image Expo 2015 for release on November of that same year.

In 2016, Jeff Lemire collaborated with musician Gord Downie on Secret Path, a graphic novel accompaniment to Downie's solo album of the same name.

In March 2017, Jeff Lemire released a new ongoing series titled Royal City through Image Comics.

In 2022, Jeff Lemire he had signed an exclusive deal with Image Comics, with an exclusion clause for his work on Black Hammer with Dark Horse Comics.

Additionally, a prose short story written by Jeff Lemire was released on Amazon's Kindle and Audible to tie in with the comic's release.

Jeff Lemire originally announced this series in his newsletter, Tales from the Farm, in January 2021 before the official announcement the following June.

In early September 2021, Jeff Lemire announced his Tales from the Farm email newsletter would be moving to Substack, where he would be serializing a new story, Fishflies.

Jeff Lemire announced plans to re-team with Descender and Ascender illustrator Dustin Nguyen for a project initially known under the working title of Project Pavement.

Jeff Lemire said he wanted to do something with the scope of Preacher, The Sandman and The Walking Dead.

Jeff Lemire won a Xeric Award in 2005 for his book Lost Dogs.

Jeff Lemire was a 2008 recipient of a Young Adult Library Services Association Alex Award for Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm.

Jeff Lemire received a Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Award for Outstanding Cartoonist in 2008, and the Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent in 2008.

Jeff Lemire won an Eisner Award for Best New Series in 2017 for his work on Black Hammer.

Jeff Lemire has been nominated for an Ignatz, a Harvey, and multiple other Eisner Awards.