And they want me to tell the stories and they want my idea’s. These are characters that they own and that they care about the direction of. Because I’m so used to doing everything on my own it’s a nice change to have this other project where I can get to bounce idea’s off guys. At first I was like ‘Oh geez, how am I going to tell the stories I want to tell’ but the more you get into it the more you realize that kind of collaboration can be fun. With DC it’s much more hands on, there are three or four group editors who are in on the story writing process to be honest on the whole direction of the book. Basically I’m doing my own thing, I hand in the pages and they co-ordinate things.

At first it was a little off putting, Vertigo gives me so much free rain. SY: How are you finding the editorial process? I’m not going to turn my nose up at the mainstream stuff. JL: Yeah it’s nostalgia and I just love all kinds of comics and I still love superhero comics and the indiest indie comics.

It’s interesting and at the end of the day I might not succeed, but it’s something worth trying and I love those old DC characters so much I couldn’t pass it up. And still maintain some resemblance of my storytelling voice and bring it to these characters. I’m still trying to figure out how to work with an artist and work with editors. I’ve literally just written an outline for one book and the first script for the Atom, so it’s literally the first steps. JL: You know it’s so early in the process of doing that work.

SY: You’re going to be working on the Atom? How are you finding your voice in superhero comics? But this is going to give me a little more room as I introduce more characters. I think it I really had to I could wrap it up at 25 or 30. JL: No, that’s giving me a lot of leeway. SY: So you don’t feel like there are any other areas or characters you would like to explore? Jeff Lemire: You know I have the story all scripted and I don’t really see it going much longer than that. Shawn Young: I recently read that you plan to end Sweet Tooth at or around issue 40? Lemire during the Toronto Comic Art Festival It’s a compelling story that’s more character driven than your usual episodic road trip. This breed is also apparently immune to the infection that still continues to kill. A series about a boy named Gus who is part of a rare new breed of human/animal hybrid that emerged from a unknown ‘accident’. He’s currently writing and drawing the sprawling Sweet Tooth. He’s known for slice of life, lyrical biographical stories like Lost Dogs, the Essex County trilogy and the HG Welles inspired The Nobody. You don’t often come across that many brand new writer/artists working for the Big Two anymore, that could be the reason why Jeff Lemire seems like such a rarity in this industry.

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