![]() He literally has done damn near everything that can be done with comics. He has gone from small-town hopeful to comic creator superstar, and he'd be the first to say that it's his persistent work ethic that got him there. ![]() Jeff Lemire is known for many things, and oftentimes those many things are done simultaneously or back-to-back. ![]() So again I say: who needs a superhero when you already have one? Today, it is widely acclaimed as one of the finest pieces of graphic literature, all while he continues inking pages to more stories, and often handfuls at a time. That published work, written as a three-part graphic novel series, quickly became a ripple in an industry unbeknownst to it without knowledge of it's need to be shaken. ![]() That story was one of his first published works and soon became an oft-referred to moment when Lemire became the creator who once was into the one we know now. The accidental classic in graphic literature, Essex County, is the quintessential reason why Lemire has been able to spread his branches into so many directions within comics. ![]() let me start over. This is a modestly long-winded deep dive into a recommendation to read the graphic novel series that became the origin story to the Jeff Lemire that we all know today. This is the story of a man, a man and his origin. Who needs a superhero when you already have one? ![]()
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