Story, Art & Cover: Jeff Lemire
Format: 112 Pages, Black & White
Price: $9.95


Description:

Xeric Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire (Lost Dogs) illustrates the tale of Lester, a recently orphaned 10-year-old who goes to live on his Uncle’s farm. Their relationship grows increasingly strained and Lester befriends the town’s hulking gas station owner, Jimmy Lebeuf. The two escape into a private fantasy world of Superheroes, Alien Invaders and good old-fashioned pond Hockey.

Tales from The Farm is the first volume in a trilogy of graphic novels set in a fictionalized version of Lemire’s hometown of Essex County, Ontario. -- 112 pages

"Books like this are the reason alternative comics publishers such as Top Shelf exist. Lemire uses an utterly personal, idiosyncratic drawing style, rough but completely clear, that even just-off-mainstream publishers would insist on gussying up for publication. And the simple story's slice-of-life lyricism, sparked by magic realism, is way too arthouse-movie-ish for the mainstream. But lordy, does it work!" -- Ray Olson, Booklist

"Jeff Lemire's Tales From The Farm is one of the best books I read last year and I'm glad to see that it's finally coming out through a publisher that consistently brings interesting new talent to the fore. Lemire's going to go places and I'm glad to get to watch him rise." -- beaucoupkevin.com

IN PRINT! (PUBLISHED MARCH 2007)

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Story, Art & Cover: Jeff Lemire
Format: 112 Pages, Black & White
Price: $14.95


Description:

Ghost Stories is the second volume in a trilogy of graphic novels set in a fictionalized version of Lemire’s hometown of Essex County, Ontario. Ghost Story follows the lives and relationship of brothers Lou and Vince Lebeuf over the course of nearly seven decades. In this volume, eldest brother Lou, now a deaf and lonely man, lives out his final days on his farm full of guilt and regret for the decisions he made that tore his family apart. From their childhood on the farm, to Toronto in the 1950’s (where they both played professional hockey), Lou revisits his life, a silent observer haunted by his own memories. -- 224 pages

IN PRINT! (PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2007)

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Story, Art & Cover: Jeff Lemire
Format: 112 Pages, Black & White
Price: $9.95


Description:

The Country Nurse & Other Rural Legends, Myths and Half-Truths, the final volume of Jeff Lemire’s Essex County Trilogy, follows a day in the life of Anne Morgan, the peculiar farming communities traveling nurse. As Anne checks in on her favorite patients we are introduced to such rural legends as the boy called Jimmy-Elelphant-Ears, and the Essex Farmer's Boxing Club! The story delves deeper into Essex County's mythology and finally reveals how all three volumes stitch together, quilting a portrait of how loss and regret push and pull at the fabric of family in small town life. -- 112 pages

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