Jeff Lemire : conversations / edited by Dale Jacobs.

In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario-his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC material, how influential Crisis on Infinite Earths and DC's Who's Who were on him as a developing com...

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Uniform Title:Conversations with comic artists.
Other Authors: Jacobs, Dale, 1966-
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
Series:Conversations with comic artists.
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Physical Description:197 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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