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With less than a day to go until the CBC's adaptation of Jeff Lemire's (Sweet Tooth, Black Hammer, Secret Path) graphic novel Essex County hits screens (as well as on CBC Gem), we have a much more personalized preview for the upcoming limited series Spotlighting the intertwining lives of two families living in a rural[...]

Last month, viewers were treated to the official trailer for the CBC's upcoming series adaptation of Jeff Lemire's (Sweet Tooth, Black Hammer, Secret Path) graphic novel Essex County Now, with only days to go until the series premiere (also on CBC Gem), we're getting a new teaser offering another look at what we can expect[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes South Park creators Trey Parker & Matt Stone sharing about the time Comedy Central wasn't thrilled with them killing Kenny every week, Disney+'s X-Men '97 possibly dropping some big updates on March 16th, Woody Harrelson's trip down Saturday Night Live memory lane takes an awkward turn, HBO's Succession stars[...]

A little more than four months after an update on the upcoming series adaptation of Jeff Lemire's (Sweet Tooth, Black Hammer, Secret Path) graphic novel Essex County brought us a rundown of the series' cast as well as a first-look image, we have some excellent news to report In less than a month, the series[...]

So the last time we checked in on how things were going with the upcoming series adaptation of Jeff Lemire's (Sweet Tooth; Black Hammer; Secret Path) graphic novel Essex County, it was January 2021, and Lemire offered an update that he had "been working on scripts for the third and fourth episodes" of the series,[...]

In his most recent newsletter "Happy New Year- Things to Come," Lemire not only offered some promising news to Sweet Tooth fans looking forward to the Netflix adaptation but also snuck in an update on the CBC's series adaptation of his graphic novel trilogy Essex County. In October 2020, Lemire revealed that he had "been working[...]

With the way the news has been flowing for Netflix's live-action adaptation of Sweet Tooth, we almost forgot about CBC's television adaptation of award-winning writer/artist Jeff Lemire's graphic novel trilogy Essex County First announced (and covered by Bleeding Cool) back in 2015, the last time we checked in was when Lemire posted the front page to[...]

Originally announced (and covered by Bleeding Cool) back in 2015, CBC's television adaptation of award-winning writer/artist Jeff Lemire's graphic novel trilogy Essex County is actually breaking some news – and it comes directly from Lemire Taking to Twitter on Thursday, the writer/artist posted the front page to the script for the pilot episode – which[...]

So, I had pretty high expectations for his original graphic novel Roughneck, the debut graphic novel from new imprint Gallery 13 from Simon & Shuster. It is a return to the type of storytelling we got from him back in his Essex County days, small town, personal stories that are both heart-breaking and surprising hopeful at[...]

Essex Country is one of my favourite graphic novels. Written and drawn by Jeff Lemire, it is now being developed as a TV show by a Canadian producer for CBC… First Generation Films (FGF) announced today it has optioned Jeff Lemire's critically acclaimed and best-selling graphic novel ESSEX COUNTY to adapt into a scripted television series[...]

By popular demand, Top Shelf celebrates the award-winning masterpiece that made Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Animal Man, The Nobody) a household name! Set in an imaginary version of the author's hometown, Essex County is an intimate study of an eccentric farming community, and a tender meditation on family, memory, grief, secrets, reconciliation — and hockey. Essex[...]

Jeff Lemire, the award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of Essex County and The Underwater Welder, will publish Roughneck, a new graphic novel, with Simon & Schuster and Simon & Schuster Canada, it was announced today This literary graphic novel follows the story of a former hockey player forced to face his demons and reconnect with his Cree heritage when his troubled[...]

Jeff Lemire currently writes Sweet Tooth, Superboy and, if I'm to be believed, Animal Man as well for DC Comics. But his previously critically acclaimed opus, and the reason he's allowed to do all those DC comics, is his trilogy of graphic novels, Essex County And now visual effects supervisor on X-Men: First Class, John Dykstra will[...]

And Jeff Lemire's Essex County is amongst them. Probably better known now for Vertigo's Sweet Tooth and DC's Superboy, it may well be that his earlier work for Top Shelf is about to dominate his public profile. This is the first time any graphic novel hasbeen named by Canada Reads As a result, TopShelf are rushing a[...]