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Celebrate SWEET TOOTH with Jeff Lemire in Toronto tomorrow

Tue, 05/04/2010 - 11:00am | DCE Editorial

Featured TCAF guest and award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire will be
will be premiering the first book of his new monthly post-apocalyptic
sci-fi comic book series SWEET TOOTH: Out of the Dark Woods, at a
special event on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010—just days before TCAF! Lemire
will be reading/presenting from the new work, and be interviewed by
SPACE’s Mark Askwith.

In addition, the event will feature a display of over 50 pieces of
original artwork from SWEET TOOTH, including interpretations of Sweet
Tooth’s world and characters by renowned Toronto and international
cartoonists including Jeffrey Brown, Matt Kindt, Ray Fawkes, and Emi Lennox!

Following the evening event there will be an after-party and mixer for
comics fans and neophytes alike at O’Grady’s Pub, 171 College Street
(Just down the street from the Lillian H. Smith Library).

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SWEET TOOTH #8--The mysterious Dr. Singh

Thu, 04/08/2010 - 10:17am | DCE Editorial

SWEET TOOTH #8 went on sale yesterday and NEWSARAMA ran a terrific feature with author/artist Jeff Lemire, check it out here. And IGN gives it a glowing review here, saying, "Jeff Lemire keeps rocking us with new character revelations and exciting plot twists. . . . His storytelling skills are second to none. . . . Lemire's creation is a challenging series that pushes the medium forward."

If that's not enough to have you runnning out to buy a copy, here's a peek inside to tempt you:

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Download SWEET TOOTH issue #1 Now!

Thu, 03/25/2010 - 9:00am | DCE Editorial

Praise for SWEET TOOTH

“SWEET TOOTH is like Mad Max with antlers. . . . spellbinding and offbeat.” –USA TODAY.com

"Like a Coen brothers road-trip drama, "SWEET TOOTH," by indie comics fave Jeff Lemire, is a fantastic post-apocolyptic comic.” —AM NEW YORK

“Excellent.” –USA TODAY/POP CANDY

“Jeff Lemire’s amazing postapocalyptic comic SWEET TOOTH: bloody and gentle all at once.” –New York Magazine (Approval Matrix Lowbrow/Brilliant)

“Sweet Tooth is a grabber from the get-go . . . Lemire retains his gift for imbuing ordinary moments with a sense of wonder.” –THE ONION/AV CLUB

If you thought you knew Eisner-nominated writer/artist Jeff Lemire’s (The Essex County Trilogy) work, think again. A cross between Bambi and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, SWEET TOOTH has everything you love about Lemire’s work—the quiet intimate moments, the powerful emotion—mixed with violence, and an edge that is unlike anything you’ve read of his before.

Follow Gus, a rare new breed of human/animal hybrid children, as he sets out with Jepperd, a hulking drifter, on a post-apocalyptic journey into the devastated American landscape to find ‘The Preserve’ a refuge for hybrids.

Read issue #1 now! Then go pick up SWEET TOOTH Vol. 1: Out of the Woods this May, to find out what happens next!

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Exclusive i, ZOMBIE interior art reveal and JOE THE BARBARIAN cover

Fri, 03/12/2010 - 9:00am | DCE Editorial

This weekend Vertigo heads to Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, WA for the first time. Editor Shelly Bond will be in attendance with Mike and Laura Allred (I, Zombie), Chris Roberson (I, Zombie), Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, The Nobody), Sean Murphy (Joe the Barbarian), G. Willow Wilson (Air), Peter Bagge (Other Lives) and others! So join in the fun Sunday at 2pm in Panel Room A (4C1-2)

Here’s a peek at a few things you’ll see:

Amazing interior art from i, ZOMBIE by Mike Allred colored by Laura Allred

Fantastic cover of JOE THE BARBARIAN #6 by Sean Murphy

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SWEET TOOTH--traumatic next issue

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 10:39am | DCE Editorial

In SWEET TOOTH #7 Jeff Lemire delves even further into the former life and love of the hulking bounty hunter Jepperd. And it’s Jeff at his best--chock full of the quiet moments of little dialogue that speaks volumes. And what an eye opening, and may I add, gut wrenching revelation it is.

Here’s a sneak peek.

Meanwhile, Gus is in for a surprise.

Find out what happens next Wednesday!

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GUS IS NOT ALONE ANYMORE: IN CAPTIVITY AND THREE NEW CLUES

Mon, 01/04/2010 - 9:28am | DCE Editorial

Jeff Lemire talks SWEET TOOTH:

January’s conclusion to “Out of The Deep Woods”, the first story-arc of SWEET TOOTH, should leave readers with A LOT of new questions. While I don’t want to spoil too much just yet, I thought it would be a good time to pop by GRAPHIC CONTENT and tease some of the upcoming twists and turns I have in store with our second storyline “In Captivity.” And while I’m at it, I might as well show off some behind the scenes artwork as well.

Anyone who has already seen the cover to Issue 7 probably knows that there will be a few new hybrid-children popping up to keep Gus company very soon. Here are a few rough preliminary designs for that cover as well as the original inks.

While most of our expanding cast of mutant kids are as innocent and endangered as Gus, I will give you one big hint for a future twist; one of the kids pictured on the cover to #7 is not what he or she seems…and in fact may very well be the most dangerous person Gus has met yet! Which one? You’ll have to keep reading to find out!

As I’m writing this it’s almost Christmas, so I’m feeling pretty generous. I might as well drop a few more clues to the mystery of the pandemic and the hybrid kids that fuels SWEET TOOTH. Remember the press-ganged women Gus and Jepperd encountered in the town of Rockbridge in Issue 4? Well one of them already had a history with Jepperd before the events of that issue! And, that relationship will come back to haunt him, and change the cold-blooded course of his life forever.

Speaking of Jepperd. Our second arc will really dig deep into his past, his motivations and the terrible secrets that drive this hulking killer. On that note, here’s one last image that should get you guessing…

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Vertigo: Graphic Connection

Wed, 11/11/2009 - 1:32pm | DCE Editorial

"A twisting supernatural tale that spans countries and eras," says USA TODAY's feature on LUNA PARK

CBR interviews Kevin Baker about LUNA PARK

LUNA PARK is reviewed by the SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE

i09 interviews Scott Snyder about AMERICAN VAMPIRE

IGN reviews SWEET TOOTH

Cory Doctorow at BOING BOING reviews PETER & MAX: A Fables Novel saying "As with the Fables comics, Willingham manages to merge the gentle, meandering feel of fairy tales with a breakneck, contemporary pacing. . . . The characters and stories are very engaging, the tension real, the mythos powerful. There's everything to like about Peter & Max, even if you've never cracked a Fables comic (though you probably will, once you've finished reading the book).”

And in case you missed them, THE ONION, IGN and UNDER THE RADAR reviewed CINDERELLA: From Fabletown with Love

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SWEET TOOTH #3 preview

Tue, 10/27/2009 - 7:00am | DCE Editorial

Hunters, cultists, mutants and shantytown pimps all want a piece of Gus and all that stands between them, is Jepperd. As the little boy with antlers heads out into what's left of the world, he'll find out that no one is quite what they seem. Or are they? Jeff Lemire continues to amaze in SWEET TOOTH issue #3.

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SWEET TOOTH #2

Fri, 10/02/2009 - 7:00am | DCE Editorial

The first issue of Jeff Lemire's SWEET TOOTH was published to much acclaim. So if you're already a fan, or want to know what all the fuss is about, you're just in time. Gus’ story continues in issue #2 (on sale 10/7) as he joins Jepperd on the road trip of a lifetime.

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From the Editor’s Desk: Brandon Montclare

Wed, 09/02/2009 - 7:00am | DCE Editorial

SWEET TOOTH #1 is now here.

With smash reviews of Jeff Lemire’s OGN THE NOBODY now out there and everywhere, the anticipation has gotten intense. Creators who’ve sneaked a peek, fellow Vertigo editors, and other DC people from all kinds of departments can’t wait to see what’s going to happen. And I can’t blame them. I’ve been with SWEET TOOTH a long time, and it blew my mind that long ago. Seven issues are in the can of this very different ongoing. You clock the difference in style as soon as you see it—and there are plenty of pages and images around the web that I’m sure you’ve previewed. But it’s also a different kind of challenge to publish, month in, month out. Having a sole creator as both writer and artist is a difficult balancing act—harder than the team approach. You need to be lucky enough to be working with someone who’s mastered both and can produce 22 pages every month; moreover—and this isn’t so easy to clock, but it’s key—someone whose whole is even greater than the sum of his own parts.

With a writer/artist, you have a single vision driving the story. But you can also watch the creator reinvent himself over the long road. In the typical monthly the writer and his or her artist collaborators invariably challenge one another—it’s either supportive, or competitive, or contentious, but that creative friction leads to sparks or fires or disasters that change the book. Jeff would be the first to credit my input as well as original editor Bob Schreck’s, Jose Villarrubia’s on colors, Pat Brosseau’s on letters—but there’s a reason he gets the above-the-title cover credit. It takes a certain nerve flying solo: to believe in oneself or conversely doubt oneself enough to pull the trigger; to never rest on laurels (or antlers, as the case may be); to make what was once new, new again. And this doesn’t even consider the amazing daily page production—being both the sprint and the marathon as issues run on and on. Like I said, I’ve seen seven issues and pieces far beyond that number. Whereas THE NOBODY had a conscious unity, SWEET TOOTH is taken down and rebuilt every issue—sometimes every page. And as far down the road as I can see, who knows where Gus’ journey ends. Not even Jeff knows yet, although it’s in his head somewhere.

Now to reveal an inked spread from issue #5:
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