Jeff Lemire In-Store in Montreal Today and Live Chat Online!

If you are in Montreal today, make sure to stop by the Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore where Jeff Lemire will be making an appearance, in support of CBC’s Canada Reads event. Find the details below.

CBC will also be holding a live chat event with Lemire at 2 pm EST Click here for more details.

Montreal

Comic Scene
Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore

211 Bernard Street West

Montreal, QC

January 27, 7:00 p.m.

Come and meet graphic novelist/cartoonist Jeff Lemire, whose Essex County is in the running for this year’s Canada Reads.

Meet the artist, ask him questions and see how he works. You could also win one of several sets of the Canada Reads books.

Homerun host Sue Smith and arts reporter Jeanette Kelly will also be hand, and joining us on stage will be Drawn & Quarterly’s head publisher and chief, Chris Oliveros, as well as Montreal’s own graphic novelist Sherwin Sullivan Tjia, author of The Hipless Boy, nominated for a Doug Wright Award and four Ignatz Awards, and Matt Forsythe, the award-winning illustrator and comic book artist whose book Ojingogo won the 2009 Doug Wright Award for Canadian cartooning.

The discussion will be recorded and segments will air on Homerun.

Related posts:

1. Jeff Lemire Shares Thoughts on Essex County for CBC’s Canada Reads
2. Jeff Lemire’s Essex County Makes CBC’s Canada Reads Top 10 Books of the Decade!
3. Jeff Lemire’s Essex County Makes the Final Five for CBC’s Canada Reads Top Books of the Decade!
4. Jeff Lemire’s Essex County Named one the Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade!
5. Links: Jeff Lemire Picks His Favourite Comics of the Year; Jeff Smith Picks his Best of the Decade