Canadian - Artist | March 21, 1976 -
In the case of 'Sweet Tooth,' and in the case of a lot of stuff I do, it all starts with the image. It may be something I sketch in my sketchbooks - something that reoccurs in the sketchbooks. Eventually, a character or story line starts to grow out of that.
Jeff Lemire
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My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.
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I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.
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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.
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I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.
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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.
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A lot of cinematic influences on 'Descender' - Kubrick for sure. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is my favorite movie. It has been since I was 12. I just love that film.
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I don't play video games because I know that if I ever started, I'd never be able to maintain a career again.
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For me, Bloodshot was the least appealing character that Valiant had. He was so cold.
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When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.
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If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has a completely different take on his origin. If you try to put them all together, they contradict one another. I had to pick and choose to make up a new origin that makes sense to new readers.
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'Animal Man' and 'Swamp Thing' have so many commonalities in tone and mood.
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