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“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!

Hey Cliff,

I got my galleys of Greendale today and I immediately sat down to read it from front to back. In that first reading since the lettering proof I found myself most proud of the points you forced me to wrestle with during our collaboration. The sections where you and I had conflict but stuck it through and hashed it out until we were both happy. The pages where you said, “what we have here simply isn’t good enough”. Upon putting the book down I realized that the moments we rethought together are its most clear, successful and moving.

I’ve said it to you in private many times, but I want to say it in public. You made this book better. And not just with your clean line work, wonderful acting and humanist approach to character design, but with your uncanny story sense as well. You really pushed us to go back to the script and rethink major sequences, even when I resisted. For a guy like me, a writer who loves comic books but can’t fully create them alone, you proved to be a rare gift. The perfect collaborator. That artist that pulled himself out of the role of hired gun and took on the project with true, personal passion.

So if you’re ever feeling it, I’m down to do it all over again. CHA!

Thanks for the art,

Joshua Dysart

http://andydiggle.blogspot.com/

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT have released an exclusive preview of THE LOSERS trailer which debuts on the show tonight, Friday 29th January 2010.

Here’s a taste — turn the sound up, it plays pretty quiet:

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Even this brief glimpse shows how faithfully they’ve used lines and story beats from the comic — “If you want your life back, you’re gonna have to steal it,” Jensen shooting the guy with his finger, Aisha with the rocket launcher, “Outstanding!”

I’m chuffed they’ve even used THE LOSERS comic-book logo designed by Steve Cook (using the Quagmire font created by Rian Hughes, typography fans!).

I’m assured the full trailer should be released online within the next few days, and that it’ll play before Mel Gibson’s EDGE OF DARKNESS this weekend. Let me know if you see it on the big screen!

If this is your first taste of THE LOSERS, you can download the entire first issue for free (8Mb PDF), and buy the first 300-page graphic novel from your local comic shop, Amazon U.S. or Amazon U.K.

This week sees the release of Dark Horse’s NOIR anthology, featuring an brand new 10-page story, “THE OLD SILO” by myself as well as folks like Brian Azzarello, Ed Brubaker and many others! Click here to preview

So in addition to exclusives like Cliff’s Atomic Bombshell Prints, Brian Wood’s SDCC miniprints and sketchbook, you can pick up Willow’s Air and Vixen, Josh Dysart’s Unknown Soldier, Azz’ Filthy Rich, Jason Aaron’s The Other Side, Jock’s Green Arrow, and Peter Milligan’s Greek Street.

Unlike a lot of online warehouses, Khepri is pure mom&pop, selling comics for over ten years to loyal customers like any other LCS.  And of course, you can order any of these titles through the local comic shop of your choosing.

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In celebration of the launch of my new monthly Vertigo series SWEET TOOTH, I am offering a special promotional deal:

Anybody who sends me their copy (or copies) of Sweet Tooth #1 along with a self addressed return envelope. I will sign the book(s) and return it along with an original sketch! You will get a sketch for each copy sent, (so if you send 2 copies, you get 2 sketches back, 5 copies=5 sketches, 100 copies=100 sketches!).

Send the books and return envelopes to:

Jeff Lemire
763 Craven Road
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
M5L 2Z7

Pass It on!

-Jeff

And I’m not alone:

“Writer & artist Jeff Lemire has created the new ‘must read’ book with SWEET TOOTH. It’s a fairy tale turned on its ear-or antlers-that takes you on the road trip through an America slightly more fantastical and just as frightening as ours.” —GEOFF JOHNS (Blackest Night)

“I would crawl over broken glass to read this.” —JASON AARON (Scalped)

“Lemire’s next great work is a shockingly original cocktail of the surreal. A candy-colored nightmare of family, violence and the end of the world.” —MATT KINDT (Super Spy)

“Sweet Tooth is a dark, moving, and intriguing story, and Jeff Lemire’s gentle writing and raw, expressive art work perfectly together.” —FRANK QUITELY (Batman & Robin)

“A remarkably strange story, drawn in an appropriately expressionistic style. I need to know what’s going to happen to Gus!” —PETER BAGGE (Everybody is Stupid Except for Me)

“A cross between Bambi and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, it’s a post-apocalyptic journey full of quiet intimate moments, powerful emotion and an edge that is unlike anything you’ve ever read”

Today’s WALL STREET JOURNAL Weekend Journal Section features JEFF LEMIRE and SWEET TOOTH. Read the story and preview here.

So this Sunday a radio engineer came by my pad and we talked about process and the impact on culture that comics have had for a segment centered around the San Diego Comic Con. He even shot some quick video for possible web support. It was a lot of fun. It hits this Saturday, you can check for air times in your area here.

I’m sure you can download a podcast of it once it’s aired if you so desire. I sure hope so, because I’ll be at the con and I’d hate to miss my NPR debut.