Welcome to the latest episode of ComicsAlliance Presents “Kate or Die,” a series of exclusive comic strips created by one of our favorite cartoonists, Kate Leth! In this personal episode, Kate confronts the anxiety all professionals share when they encounter a great and humbling piece of work created by someone else in their own field. In Kate's case, it's comics -- specifically, Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth.
DC Entertainment's final panel of the day focused on the Vertigo imprint, moderated by editor Karen Berger and featuring creators Sean Muprhy, Mike Allred, Rafael Albuquerque, Mark Buckingham,, Mike Carey, Jeff Lemire, Dan Abnett, Bill Willingham, Scott Snyder, and Dustin Nguyen, as well as editors Shelly Bond and Will Dennis. Sean Murphy discussed his Punk Rock Jesus series, Jeff Lemire promised a "not sad" ending to Sweet Tooth, and this guy named Neil Gaiman is doing a prequel to a comic book he started in 1989 called Sandman with J.H. Williams III.
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Sweet Tooth is the story of Gus, a boy with antlers in a post-apocalyptic America who lives alone in a log cabin until the promise of candy (hence the title) compels him to leave home behind and begin what's half a classic hero's journey and half a simple fight for survival...
For those of you keeping up with Vertigo's must-read Sweet Tooth only in the modestly priced collected editions, you may be delighted to learn that writer-artist Jeff Lemire has completed more than 20 issues of the dystopian saga. The author of Essex County is prolific indeed, but even Lemire needs a break from the monthly grind...
The world of Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth is rife with deadly secrets, but at the heart of them all is the mystery of the human/animal hybrid children who stand to inherit the Earth. The extent of each hybrid's mutations varies dramatically, but all survive where humans have fallen prey to a near-apocalyptic illness and the antlered, chocolate-loving protagonist Gus could be the key to it all...
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It seems like just yesterday that Jeff Lemire was writing critically-acclaimed, Eisner-nominated indie books, like the "Essex County" series from Top Shelf, but I was still getting "who?" reactions from my superhero-centric friends when I mentioned his name...
Vertigo showed a lot of support for Jeff Lemire's "Sweet Tooth" #1 back in September by giving it a 99 cent introductory price tag, but it's going even further to promote the May release of "Sweet Tooth Vol. 1: Out of the Woods," by making the series' first issue available as a free downloadable ...