Line #68 Creator/JeffLemire


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4	Jeff Lemire (born March 21, 1976) is a Canadian comic artist and writer, most famous for his Creator/VertigoComics series ''ComicBook/SweetTooth'' and his work in various Creator/DCComics titles. He rose to prominence by writing the Top Shelf published ''Essex County Trilogy'' and later joined Vertigo Comics to publish ''Sweet Tooth''. He was then offered ''Adventure Comics'' and ''Superboy.''
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6	As part of the DC ComicBook/New52 Relaunch, Jeff Lemire handled writing duties for ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' and ''Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E,'' and later took over ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' and ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'', all to much critical acclaim.
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8	Following the end of his exclusive contract with DC, he's taken a variety of projects including Bloodshot for Creator/ValiantComics, and ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} for Creator/MarvelComics, as well as a lot of creator-owned titles published by Creator/ImageComics. He also wrote ''ComicBook/BlackHammer'' for Creator/DarkHorseComics and has worked on many of its spinoffs. In 2022, he and artist Creator/AndreaSorrentino, who had previously created ''ComicBook/GideonFalls'' together and collaborated on Lemire's ''[[ComicBook/GreenArrow2011 Green Arrow]]'' [[ComicBook/GreenArrowJeffLemire run]], started publishing comics as part of their Bone Orchard Mythos, meant to be a series of graphic novels and comic book miniseries taking place in the same universe and timeline but being readable independently.
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10	Similar to Creator/GeoffJohns, Jeff Lemire has specialised in mining relatively obscure characters from DC history or "silly" concepts, and re-formatting them to fit with modern audiences; for the most part, he's been very successful.
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13	!! Selected bibliography:
14	!!! '''Ashtray Press'''
15	* ''Lost Dogs'' (2005)
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17	!!! '''Creator/DarkHorseComics'''
18	[[index]]
19	* ''ComicBook/BlackHammer'' (2016 -- present)
20	** ''Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil (2017)''
21	** ''Doctor Andromeda and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows (2018)''
22	** ''[[ComicBook/SkulldiggerAndSkeletonBoy Skulldigger + Skeleton Boy]]'' (2019 -- 2021)
23	** ''Colonel Weird: Cosmagog (2020)''
24	** ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableUnteens'' (2021)
25	* ''Snow Angels'' (2021)[[note]]Published digitally as a [=ComiXology=] Original, then published in print by Dark Horse[[/note]]
26	[[/index]]
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28	!!! '''Creator/DCComics'''
29	[[index]]
30	* ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' vol. 5 (2011)
31	* ''ComicBook/{{Animal Man\|2011}}'' vol. 2 (2011 -- 2014)
32	* ''ComicBook/FrankensteinAgentOfSHADE'' (2011 -- 2012) [#1 -- #10]
33	* ''ComicBook/{{Green Arrow\|2011}}'' vol. 5 (2013 -- 2014)
34	** ''ComicBook/GreenArrowJeffLemire'' [#17 -- #34]
35	* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark'' vol. 1 (2011 -- 2013) [#1 -- #23]
36	* ''ComicBook/{{Rotworld}}'' (2012 -- 2013)
37	* ''Justice League United'' (2014 -- 2015) [#1 -- #10]
38	* ''ComicBook/TeenTitansEarthOne'' vols. 1 & 2 (2015 -- 2016)
39	* ''ComicBook/TheTerrifics'' (2018 -- 2019) [#1 -- #14]
40	* ''Joker: Killer Smile'' (2019)
41	[[/index]]
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43	!!! '''Gallery 13 Comics'''
44	[[index]]
45	* ''Frogcatchers'' (2019)
46	[[/index]]
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48	!!! '''Creator/ImageComics'''
49	[[index]]
50	* ''Comicbook/{{Descender}}'' (2015 -- 2018)
51	* ''ComicBook/{{Plutona}}'' (2015 -- 2016)
52	* ''Royal City'' (2017--2018)
53	* ''ComicBook/GideonFalls'' (2018 -- 2020)
54	* ''Family Tree'' (2019 -- 2021)
55	* ''Ascender'' (2019 -- 2021)
56	* ''ComicBook/{{Primordial}}'' (2021 -- 2022)[[note]]Six-issue limited series[[/note]]
57	* ''The Bone Orchard Mythos:''
58	** ''Prelude: Shadow Eater'' (2022)[[note]]Free Comic Book Day one-shot[[/note]]
59	** ''ComicBook/ThePassageway'' (2022)
60	** ''ComicBook/TenThousandBlackFeathers'' (2022)
61	** ''Tenement'' (2023)
62	** ''Starseed'' (2024)
63	[[/index]]
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65	!!! '''Creator/MarvelComics'''
66	[[index]]
67	* ''[[ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} All-New Hawkeye]]'' vols. 1 & 2 (2015 -- 2016)
68	* ''ComicBook/ExtraordinaryXMen'' (2015 -- 2017)
69	* ''ComicBook/{{Old Man Logan\|2016}}'' vol. 2 (2016 -- 2017) [#1 -- #24]
70	* ''ComicBook/{{Moon Knight\|2016}}'' vol. 8 (2016 -- 2017)
71	* ''ComicBook/DeathOfX'' (with Creator/CharlesSoule, 2016)
72	[[/index]]
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74	!!! '''Top Shelf'''
75	[[index]]
76	* ''The Essex County Trilogy'' (2008 -- 2009)
77	* ''The Underwater Welder'' (2012)
78	[[/index]]
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80	!! ''Creator/ValiantComics''
81	[[index]]
82	* ''ComicBook/{{Bloodshot}}'':
83	** ''Bloodshot Reborn'' (2015 -- 2016)
84	** ''Bloodshot U.S.A.'' (2016 -- 2017)
85	** ''Bloodshot Salvation'' (2017 -- 2018)
86	* ''ComicBook/TheValiant'' (2015)
87	* ''ComicBook/{{Divinity}} III: Komandar Bloodshot'' (2016)
88	[[/index]]
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90	!!! '''Creator/VertigoComics'''
91	[[index]]
92	* ''The Nobody'' (2009)
93	* ''ComicBook/SweetTooth'' (2009 -- 2013)
94	[[/index]]
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97	!!Tropes associated with Jeff Lemire's work:
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99	* AntiHero: More prevalent in his creator owned works, though also present in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark''.
100	* {{UsefulNotes/Canada}}: He's proudly Canadian, and he's featured his home country in his work.
101	* CharacterDevelopment: Especially evident in his creator-owned works; none of the characters are exactly the same as when they started.
102	* DeadpanSnarker
103	* EarnYourHappyEnding: ''Sweet Tooth'' most notably.
104	* IntergenerationalFriendship: Gus and Jeppard in ''Sweet Tooth'', Kate and Clint in ''[[ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} All-New Hawkeye]]'', and definitely shows up in his team books, where he's prone to picking casts with mentor-mentee relationships.
105	* ProductionPosse: Often collaborates with artists Creator/MattKindt, Emi Lenox, Dustin Nguyen and Creator/AndreaSorrentino. Also, most of his creator-owned books are lettered by Steve Wands.
106	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: His work tends to be idealistic.

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