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Jeff Lemire

Canadian Artist

Born: Mar 21, 1976

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For me, Bloodshot was the least appealing character that Valiant had. He was so cold. Jeff Lemire

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The cool thing about 'Sweet Tooth' is that you can bring influences from the underground and alternative people that I read and also bring in some genre influences, too, from movies and comics. And kind of mash it all up. It's a fun project. Jeff Lemire

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'Animal Man' and 'Swamp Thing' have so many commonalities in tone and mood. Jeff Lemire

Man Animal Mood Swamp Many Thing Tone

When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me. Jeff Lemire

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I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed. Jeff Lemire

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I never - when I go into a project, I don't think too much about if there's a lot of other sci-fi books out there or horror books or whatever. I just tell the stories I want to tell, and I think that is evident on the page. Jeff Lemire

'Hawkeye' is much more intimate than any of the superhero works I've done before. Jeff Lemire

Before Intimate Superhero More Than Any Done Much Works

There's something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It's like we're playing God. Let's create something that's a reflection of us, but it's inferior. Jeff Lemire

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I'm not a big fan of introducing a bunch of new mysteries into a story without really knowing where they're going because you just end up struggling at the end to make sense of them and make it all seem like you planned it all along. Jeff Lemire

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I never really approach any project or story thinking of themes first or what a certain character 'represents.' Maybe other writers do, but for me, it just starts with the characters and a certain emotion I want to convey. It usually isn't until I get deeper into a book and look back a bit that I start to see the themes, etc. Jeff Lemire

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The Green Arrow stuff that I've responded to from the past is the Mike Grell stuff. I've liked a lot of other stuff, but I think for me, the direction and the mood and the tone that I really want is something much darker and more aggressive and really fast-paced action. Jeff Lemire

'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my earlier work, I also wanted to try to do something that was completely new and different. Jeff Lemire

I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work. Jeff Lemire

Work Isolation Independent Attracted Always Been Themes

When I was offered 'Hawkeye,' it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you're just going to get a watered-down version of what they did. Jeff Lemire

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One of my favorite things about the DC Universe, growing up as a reader, was just how big it was and just how many characters and superheroes there were. And how many odd characters there were. Jeff Lemire

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You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know? Jeff Lemire

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists. Jeff Lemire

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My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters. Jeff Lemire

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There's a lot of mystery just inherent in the story of 'Descender.' There's sort of a central mystery that runs throughout it. Jeff Lemire

Runs Mystery Throughout Sort Lot Just Story Central Inherent

I've always had a good handle on drawing children. Jeff Lemire

Good Drawing Had Always Handle Children

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