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It's the art that strikes first in The Underwater Welder, in particular if you've never come across any of Lemire's work before - like Quentin Blake drawing on a bus during a sneezing fit, ragged scratches and washes belying a perfect eye for composition and character. It's incredibly evocative cartooning - check the panicked swirl of a diver's eyes on the cover, an image returned to often and to great effect. <br />It's all in service of a deeply personal story of longing and loss. Jack, a thoughtful and wounded deep-sea engineer fresh from a long-lost Hemingway novel, has never fully healed from the disappearance of his father. A diver himself, he walked into the sea one Halloween night many years ago and never resurfaced. Lately, with a child on the way and a marriage slowly eroding, Jack is beginning to find himself drawn more and more to the murk of the ocean's floor, where something is clearly waiting for him in the gloom. <br />Much of Underwater Welder's press has focused on the Twilight Zone riffs - a rip in time and a ghost town populated by temporal anomalies make great unfilmed episodes. But for me, Welder has far more in common with Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, perhaps by way of Andrei Tarkovsky. The lonely seaside setting, deeply working class sensibilities, distant men with withering personal lives - these things linger in the memory just as much as the book's halucinatory final third.<br />Strange, beautiful and emotionally eviscerating, it's that rare blend of high concept fantasy with the painfully personal that makes Diver such a success.

The most spectacular episode of The Twilight Zone that was never produced. I really, really care about the people in this story... And I can pretty much guarantee you will too. -- From the introduction by Damon Lindelof (LOST, Star Trek, Prometheus, The Leftovers) With The Underwater Welder, Jeff Lemire has created a moving, brilliant, and fiercely original work about loss, longing, and love. Full of piercing moments that will stay with you for long after you've finished reading, The Underwater Welder is a testament to the basic truth that down in the depths or up on land, there's nothing more haunting and wondrous than the human heart. A masterpiece of visual storytelling. -- Scott Snyder (Batman, Wytches, American Vampire) Lemire's stylized art and inventive panel structure is the perfect vehicle for his well-told story, and the tale's poignant moments make the moments of desolation even more heart-wrenching... A beautiful, moving, wholly satisfying story about fatherhood and growing up. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) [Lemire] has not lost his ability to pack an emotional wallop. -- George Gustines, The New York Times A striking evocation of the Canadian Maritimes, and a moving meditation on what haunts us and how we struggle to keep those specters at bay. And the use of ink wash has rarely been put to more apt use. -- Dana Jennings, The New York Times The Underwater Welder... is all kinds of wonderful. Buy it. You will wet yourself with tears, your brain will spin from masterful storytelling, and you will love it. -- Jeff Jensen, Entertainment Weekly Haunting... Underwater Welder is just the right blend of action and abstraction, and greatly enhanced by Lemire's ability to signal movement, time and distance through clever arrangement of his panels on the page. -- Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

"""The most spectacular episode of The Twilight Zone that was never produced. I really, really care about the people in this story... And I can pretty much guarantee you will too."" — From the introduction by Damon Lindelof (LOST, Star Trek, Prometheus, The Leftovers) ""With The Underwater Welder, Jeff Lemire has created a moving, brilliant, and fiercely original work about loss, longing, and love. Full of piercing moments that will stay with you for long after you've finished reading, The Underwater Welder is a testament to the basic truth that down in the depths or up on land, there's nothing more haunting and wondrous than the human heart. A masterpiece of visual storytelling."" — Scott Snyder (Batman, Wytches, American Vampire) ""Lemire’s stylized art and inventive panel structure is the perfect vehicle for his well-told story, and the tale’s poignant moments make the moments of desolation even more heart-wrenching... A beautiful, moving, wholly satisfying story about fatherhood and growing up."" — Publishers Weekly (starred review) ""[Lemire] has not lost his ability to pack an emotional wallop."" — George Gustines, The New York Times ""A striking evocation of the Canadian Maritimes, and a moving meditation on what haunts us and how we struggle to keep those specters at bay. And the use of ink wash has rarely been put to more apt use."" — Dana Jennings, The New York Times ""The Underwater Welder... is all kinds of wonderful. Buy it. You will wet yourself with tears, your brain will spin from masterful storytelling, and you will love it."" — Jeff Jensen, Entertainment Weekly ""Haunting... Underwater Welder is just the right blend of action and abstraction, and greatly enhanced by Lemire's ability to signal movement, time and distance through clever arrangement of his panels on the page."" — Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing"

The most spectacular episode of The Twilight Zone that was never produced. I really, really care about the people in this story... And I can pretty much guarantee you will too. - From the introduction by Damon Lindelof (LOST, Star Trek, Prometheus, The Leftovers) With The Underwater Welder, Jeff Lemire has created a moving, brilliant, and fiercely original work about loss, longing, and love. Full of piercing moments that will stay with you for long after you've finished reading, The Underwater Welder is a testament to the basic truth that down in the depths or up on land, there's nothing more haunting and wondrous than the human heart. A masterpiece of visual storytelling. - Scott Snyder (Batman, Wytches, American Vampire) Lemire's stylized art and inventive panel structure is the perfect vehicle for his well-told story, and the tale's poignant moments make the moments of desolation even more heart-wrenching... A beautiful, moving, wholly satisfying story about fatherhood and growing up. - Publishers Weekly (starred review) [Lemire] has not lost his ability to pack an emotional wallop. - George Gustines, The New York Times A striking evocation of the Canadian Maritimes, and a moving meditation on what haunts us and how we struggle to keep those specters at bay. And the use of ink wash has rarely been put to more apt use. - Dana Jennings, The New York Times The Underwater Welder... is all kinds of wonderful. Buy it. You will wet yourself with tears, your brain will spin from masterful storytelling, and you will love it. - Jeff Jensen, Entertainment Weekly Haunting... Underwater Welder is just the right blend of action and abstraction, and greatly enhanced by Lemire's ability to signal movement, time and distance through clever arrangement of his panels on the page. - Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

The most spectacular episode of The Twilight Zone that was never produced. I really, really care about the people in this story... And I can pretty much guarantee you will too. -- From the introduction by Damon Lindelof (LOST, Star Trek, Prometheus, The Leftovers) With The Underwater Welder, Jeff Lemire has created a moving, brilliant, and fiercely original work about loss, longing, and love. Full of piercing moments that will stay with you for long after you've finished reading, The Underwater Welder is a testament to the basic truth that down in the depths or up on land, there's nothing more haunting and wondrous than the human heart. A masterpiece of visual storytelling. -- Scott Snyder (Batman, Wytches, American Vampire) Lemire's stylized art and inventive panel structure is the perfect vehicle for his well-told story, and the tale's poignant moments make the moments of desolation even more heart-wrenching... A beautiful, moving, wholly satisfying story about fatherhood and growing up. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) [Lemire] has not lost his ability to pack an emotional wallop. -- George Gustines, The New York Times A striking evocation of the Canadian Maritimes, and a moving meditation on what haunts us and how we struggle to keep those specters at bay. And the use of ink wash has rarely been put to more apt use. -- Dana Jennings, The New York Times The Underwater Welder... is all kinds of wonderful. Buy it. You will wet yourself with tears, your brain will spin from masterful storytelling, and you will love it. -- Jeff Jensen, Entertainment Weekly Haunting... Underwater Welder is just the right blend of action and abstraction, and greatly enhanced by Lemire's ability to signal movement, time and distance through clever arrangement of his panels on the page. -- Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

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Jeff Lemireis a prolific, award-winning comic book writer and artist from Ontario, who's known for creating literary stories depicting the frailties, fears, and hopes of the human condition. He's worked extensively with all the major comic book publishers, penning well-received runs onAnimal Man,Green Arrow,Hawkeye, andOld Man Loganfor DC and Marvel. His creator-owned works, which are even more highly aclaimed, includeThe Underwater Welder,The Essex County Trilogy,andLost Dogsfrom Top Shelf Productions;Descender,A.D. After Death(with Scott Snyder,) andRoyal City, from Image; andSweet Tooth,Trillium, andThe Nobodyfrom Vertigo. His original graphic novelRoughneckwas published by Simon and Schuster in 2017. Jeff won the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist in 2008 forEssex County, and again in 2013 forThe Underwater WelderandSweet Tooth. He's been a nominee for multiple Eisner awards, a Harvery Award, and the Ignatz Award.DescenderandThe Underwater Welderhave both been optioned for major motion pictures. He lives in Toronto with his family.

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