![]() “But at the end of the day I just have so much work to do.”Īfter bursting onto the scene in 2008 with Tales From the Farm and Ghost Stories, the first two parts of the Essex County Trilogy - for which he earned a Doug Wright Award for best emerging talent and a Joe Shuster Award for best cartoonist - Lemire kept up his momentum in 2009 with the third part, The Country Nurse, and began his superb new ongoing series for DC/Vertigo, Sweet Tooth. “I guess if you stop and think about all the early success, you can kind of get caught up in worrying about living up to it,” says the 34-year-old Toronto resident, a featured guest at this weekend’s Fan Expo 2010, the massive annual pop-culture extravaganza at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The pressure to match all that might crush some people, but Jeff Lemire is too busy rocketing to the top of comic book industry to let it get to him. ![]() ![]() His first major work won him two national awards, earned him sweeping critical acclaim and helped put Essex County, Ont., on the map.
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