“You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?”

Canadian comic book writer, artist, cartoonist, and television producer

Jeff Lemire is a Canadian comic book writer, artist, cartoonist, and television producer. He is known for acclaimed graphic novels and for work across major publishers in American comics. His best-known titles include the Essex County Trilogy, Sweet Tooth, and The Nobody. He has also written for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image Comics, and Valiant, with series such as All-New Hawkeye, Extraordinary X-Men, Moon Knight, Old Man Logan, Superboy, Animal Man, Justice League Dark, Green Arrow, Absolute Flash, Black Hammer, Mazebook, Descender, Gideon Falls, and Bloodshot Reborn.