The Country Nurse is the final volume in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Essex County trilogy of graphic novels, set in a fictionalized version of Lemire's hometown in Ontario, Canada. Follow a day in the life of Anne Morgan, the peculiar farming community's traveling nurse. As Anne checks in on her favorite patients, the story delves deeper into Essex County's mythology and past, and finally reveals how all three volumes stitch together to quilt a portrait of how loss and regret push and pull at the fabric of family in small town life. An amazing finish to the trilogy, and a story in its own right.
(W/A/CA) Jeff Lemire
**A beautiful, unsettling, and ultimately touching story about connection, transformation, and the possibility of moving forward in life, despite the burden of an unresolved past.?**?_Library Journal?_(starred review) ...Fishflies?is a grotesquely addictive, trypophobic nightmare epic.??Shelf Awareness?(starred review) ...a wretchedly detailed story of loyalty, trauma, and living on the outside.??Booklist?(starred review) A strange and surreal new tale of friendship and small town life from the creator of SWEET TOOTH and DESCENDER. A small town crime sets off a chain of events that will permanently alter the lives of several residents of bucolic Belle River, Ontario. As the manhunt heats up, a lonely girl named Franny Fox forms an unlikely friendship with a fugitive that leads them both on an odyssey of discovery and redemption... a journey that also uncovers dark secrets from the town's eery past. Collects all issues #1-7.
(W/A/CA) Jeff Lemire
For readers eager to dive right into Jeff Lemire?s strange sci-fi story, the Sweet Tooth Compendium is now available! An inexplicable plague has women giving birth to human-animal hybrid children all over the world. The deer-child Gus is left to fend for himself after his father dies, leaving him with more questions than answers. A cross between Bambi and Cormac McCarthy?s The Road, Sweet Tooth follows the innocent journey of a young hybrid boy suddenly thrust out into a world no one can explain. Collects issues #1-40 in a new story-only collection that places the reader directly into the action and doesn?t let up until the very last page!
(W/A/CA) Jeff Lemire
Once upon a time there was a little boy named Gus. He had antlers and lived with his father in a little cabin in the woods. Then his father died, and the big man with cold eyes took Gus away. Gus went on many great adventures, found friends, love, happiness, family, and acceptance. Now, years later?it begins again. A young boy with antlers and deer-like features wakes in a bizarre and completely foreign world where the last humans struggle to survive. They tell the boy he is special, he is chosen, and that he alone can lead them back to a world dominated by the oppressive Hybrids. Acclaimed writer/artist Jeff Lemire reunites with colorist Jos? Villarubia to bring you the next chapter in the saga of DC?s acclaimed series Sweet Tooth!