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Jeff Lemire
Jeff Lemire is a Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer and artist. His works include the Eisner and Harvey Award nominated Essex County Trilogy, a series of graphic novels published by Top Shelf Productions set in a fictionalized version of Lemire's hometown, the tiny Canadian farming village of Essex County, Ontario, Canada.

Lemire won both the Doug Wright for emerging talent and Shuster Award for Best cartoonist in 2008.

Lemire's next book was The Nobody, an updating of H.G.Wells' The Invisible Man for DC Comics' Vertigo Imprint. He followed that up with the creator-owned monthly series Sweet Tooth, both published by Vertigo in 2009.

Lemire has also conrtributed short comics work to Dark Horse Comics Noir Anthology, Image Comics Outlaw Territory 2 Anthology, Indie Spinner Rack's Awesome 2: Awesomer Anthology, The Globe And Mail's Driven Magazine and Vertigo's House of Mystery.

The Essex County Trilogy
Three interconnected graphic novels written ad illustrated by Jeff Lemire and set in a fictionalized version of his hometown, the tiny Canadian farming village of Essex County, Ontario, Canada. The books follow one family over the course of a century in the small rural community and uses both farm life and ice hockey as central metaphors for how loss, regret and guilt can pull a family apart and bring them back together. Volume 1:Tales From The Farm and Volume 2:Ghost Stories were published in 2008 and The Country Nurse was published in 2008. A complete "omnibus" edition with new material will be published in both hardcover and softcover in 2009.

The books have been nominated for and/or recieved numorous awards including two Eisner nominations for Best New Graphic Novel (2008) and Best Cartoonist (2008). Tales from The farm also won the Alex Award from The American Library Association in 2008, awarded to books with specific appeal to both teens and adults.

Lemire won Lemire won both the Doug Wright for emerging talent and Shuster Award for Best cartoonist in 2008 recognizing the best in Canadian comics and cartooning talent for his work on the trilogy.