Acclaimed Canadian comics writer and illustrator Jeff Lemire returns to his roots with the television adaptation of his acclaimed breakout work Essex County. | cbcgem
, a small-town drama laced with magic realism.
The lines between the mainstream and indie comics industry have blurred now that comics don't have to fight to be taken seriously as an art form. The previous generation of Canadian comics creators had to choose between making mainstream superhero fare or forging careers in alternative comics in order to tell their own stories. Creators like Lemire, who grew up reading and love both, can comfortably have one foot in each world.
And what unites his work all across styles and genres underneath their trapping is character-driven and emotion-based storytelling, distilled to its purest form inwas optioned in 2015, the author initially planned to be a consultant but as development progressed, he got increasingly involved. "I became so protective of the characters," Lemire, who is both co-writer and showrunner, said in an interview earlier this month. "It's such a personal story.
"What resonated for me in the book and in the script material was the ensemble," series co-writer Eilis Kirwan says of the essence of. "A group of people in this one particular place, all of them at a very significant crossroads in their lives, where they're being compelled to revisit what they thought the story of their lives was — the inner conflict between the dreams and fantasies of your imagination.
I lived with those panels and that story for so long, and it's such a part of me," he says. "There were days I was brought to tears seeing it literally come to life.In flashbacks, and as a metaphor for community and unfulfilled promise, hockey plays a thematic role. "Anything with Jimmy and Lester felt so strangely like the comic coming to life," Lemire adds, especially with the pitch-perfect casting of Durand as the hulking but vulnerable former player.
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