In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, 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 Crisis on Infinite Earths and DC's Who's
Who were on him as a developing comics fan, his first reading of
Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, 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. 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 Essex
County Trilogy, Sweet Tooth, The Nobody, and Trillium, seems to
bask in these discussions. Before he was ever a comics
professional, he was a fan. 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 Jeff
Lemire: Conversations, 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.
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