Lemire pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling epic. Being a primarily visual medium, comic art can make or break a book. Written by awardwinning creator, jeff lemire, descender is a riproaring and heartfelt cosmic. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series ascender with dustin nguyen. Its not often you find a first issue that establishes a baseline then completely changes it, establishing a new baseline in the same issue. It tells the story of a robot who wakes up 10 years after a group of planetsized robots, the harvesters, have rampaged through the galaxy. Last summer, after 32 issues, cocreators jeff lemire and dustin nguyen brought their modern scifi odyssey descender to a close with a cataclysmically apocalyptic finish. Powerhouse creative team jeff lemire and dustin nguyen launch an all new series in ascender. New ongoing series written and illustrated by jeff lemire descender, a. Eine bereicherung fur jede gutsortierten moderne comicsammlung. One of the most highly sought after comic book creators in the last 20 years, jeff lemire has carved out a niche that he has truly excelled in. Descender comic read descender comic online in high quality.
Newsweeks best comic books of 2018 2018, 2017, 2016 yalsas great graphic novels for teens 2015 nprs best books of the year your new scifi. With hits like sweet tooth, black hammer, and the underwater welder under his belt, lemire has done more in the industry than most dream of doing. Since its beginning, the series has used unconventional storytelling tools to explore the smiling man. Tin stars by jeff lemire, 9781632154262, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
Following a controversy involving marsha cooke, the widow of the late comic book legend, darwyn cooke, both jeff lemire and bill sienkiewicz separately posted denunciations of the comicsgate movement. For being the flagship x book of the current line, it leaves a lot to be desired. I know jeff lemire is a big name in comics but his books have always left me kinda. Descender is a book about machines and robots, so were building all of these different robots and technology, and also just different planets. National comics 2012 issue rose and thorn national comics.
His work in the 2010s includes allnew hawkeye, extraordinary xmen, moon knight and old man logan for marvel, descender and plutona for image comics, and bloodshot reborn for valiant. Jeff lemire and dustin nguyens descender totally worth sonys crazy money. Amid hollywoods call, new descender comic book is his big picture for new comic descender, lemire sets his sights on what he says is important. Jeff lemire and bill sienkiewicz denounce comicsgate cbr. Jeff lemire and dustin nguyen reimagine their scifi world from descender as a fantasy world in the new image comics series ascender. Jeff lemire explains descender comic book sequel ascender. Image comics is known to set loose some very potential comic series. Newsweeks best comic books of 2018 2018, 2017, 2016 yalsas great graphic novels for teens 2015. Published september 24th 2015 by image comics first published march 4th 2015. The fountain valley artist has worked for dc comics for two decades and also launched his own series with writer jeff lemire. Jeff lemire is a new york times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels sweet tooth, essex county, the underwater welder, trillium, plutona, black hammer, descender, royal city, and gideon falls.
Tin stars is a new sciencefiction comic on image by jeff lemire and dustin nguyen the artist, not the karate guy from 21 jump street. Self taught comic artist, who studied film in toronto jeff lemire was born in 1976 and raised in a small canadian farming town. Now, about half a year since the eisner awardwinning image comics series came to a close, lemire and nguyen have reunited to launch a sequel series in ascender. Jeff lemire confirms at least 3 more black hammer spinoffs are in development movies legendarys black hammer being developed as a shared universe between film and television. Jeff lemire has dreamt up an emotional, imaginative new universebrian k. Comic book artist and illustrator dustin nguyens newest book is batman tales. Jeff lemire born march 21, 1976 is a canadian cartoonist. Jeff lemire writer for royal city, descender, black hammer appears at dragons lair on saturday, september 15, 2018 to help the shop celebrate their. A lovecraftian teen decides she will do anything to mak. Comic book artist and writer jeff lemire came to our local library to talk about essex county and all the things hes working on.
So keep an eye out for lots of new black hammer announcements in the comings weeks and months. A way of me keeping my expectations lower in case the book struggled to find an audience. Jeff lemire is now a part of my mustread comic book creators triplet. Descender by jeff lemire came into being amid huge fanfare and critical acclaim and it is well deserved.
With all the scope and heart of the scifi classic, descender, lemire and nguyen reunite to take readers on an unforgettable fantasy quest. For a very special turkey day, writer and artist jeff lemire dives into the seminal works that propelled him to create introspective comic touchstones. The deluxe edition volume 1 by jeff lemire, 9781534303461, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Enormous robots appeared over several key planets one day, making no communications before unleashing devastating attacks.
And that is some feat as lemire, dubbed the hardest working man in comics by vulture magazine, is prolific as heck. He is the author of titles including the essex county trilogy, sweet tooth, the nobody, and animal man. Hidden behind this tale of a lost and abandoned little robot are the underlying demons of our own society. In a day, billions were killed and the ugc united galactic council, a speciesspanning government body, was left weakened. Now one of dc comics cornerstone writers, jeff was prominent in the publishers recent new 52 linewide relaunch as the writer of animal man and frankenstein. Awardwinning canadian cartoonist jeff lemire is the creator of the acclaimed monthly comic book series sweet tooth published by dcvertigo and the award winning graphic novel essex county published by top shelf.
Jeff lemire, descender is a riproaring and heartfelt cosmic odyssey. Artist jeff lemire describes writing for certain marvel titles as kind of a nightmare comic book artist jeff lemire, whos currently writing for image and dark horse, was asked about. Jeff lemire and dustin nguyens descender is worth it. From the eisneraward winning black hammer superhero fantasy comes this collection of three stories and a universe guide tied to the world of jeff lemire and dean ormstons hit comic book series. Comic book artist dustin nguyen talks batman tales. Ive bingeread almost everything lemire has produced and have yet to find a work i didnt completely fall in love with. Extra special thanks to steve wands and will dennis. But the success of the book has allowed us to expand our ideas and really explore the descender universe in new ways. Last week, jeff lemire and andrea sorrentinos gideon falls wrapped up the pentoculus arc with a finale that could only ever unfold in the pages of a comic book.
January 25, 2019 in the upcoming ascender, jeff lemire and dustin nguyen present the next chapter of the thrilling epic that began with descender. Hello from out here on the thames delta, where i am reading an advance copy of the new jeff lemire graphic novel, frogcatchers. Descender is a space opera comic book about a young boy robot, tim21, who awakens from ten years of sleep mode to find a galaxy vastly changed. When jeff lemire and dustin nguyens scifi series descender launched in 2015, it introduced readers to an epic space opera where androids were outlawed and the galaxy was split between humanity. The mystery doesnt end with the core black hammer series though, as lemire expands his universe with spinoff titles sherlock frankenstein and the legion of evil, doctor star and the kingdom of lost tomorrows, and quantum age offering insightful takes on different eras and genres of realworld comic book history. With jeff lemire helming the new hawkeye, as announced in the recent reveal of 45 new marvel titles, we have decided to compile the top five lemire books that are absolute must reads. The comic book is beautiful to look at and if the story can continue to engage and surprise then this will be a big hit. Lemires characterization seems a bit off and i just hate ramos on this book. Jeff lemire and dustin nguyens scifi epic makes its way onto our shelves in a deluxe format. His first foray into comics was in 2005 when he selfpublished. Written by awardwinning creator, jeff lemire, descender is a riproaring and. And i am also excited to announce that, as the flagship book of phase ii dean ormston and i will be creating a new core series featuring lucy weber as the all new black hammer for 2020.
For a fleeting moment, it seemed like jeff lemire was finally slowing down. Royal city charts the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades. When i sat down with him at a hotel bar during this julys san diego comiccon, i asked the famously prolific writer. In a recent video interview on youtube, comic book creator billy tucci casually referenced the late darywn cooke. Written by awardwinning creator, jeff lemire, descender is a riproaring and heartfelt cosmic odyssey. This timeline shows the sheer scope of their scififantasy hybrid. Writer jeff lemire on moving from image comics descender to ascender. Theres a breathtaking sequence early on where a hand in water morphs into a chest xray which morphs again into the face of a man laying on a bed. Descender is a comic book that throws a lot at a reader in the first issue. Biographical drei einseitige comicstrips im kanadischen driven magazin. Hollywood just cant keep its grubby little hands off of comics stuff. Patrick pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to.
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