A new book coming from Dark Horse next year will explore the comics career of Jeff Lemire, offering “a book-by-book and step-by-step journey” of sketches, essays, previously unpublished material and more.
10,000 Ink Stains: A Memoir will be a $50 hardcover and is due out next July. It’ll contain materials that he first posted to his Substack newsletter, which he has since expanded and built upon for this collection.
“This hardcover book will feature essays that document the creation of each of my books, from my earliest self-published never before published mini-comics to Essex County, Sweet Tooth, Black Hammer, Minor Arcana and everything in between,” Lemire said in his newsletter. “In addition to essays discussing the creation of each project and my personal life at the time, this book will also feature never seen developmental artwork, rare and unpublished comics and in-depth process material.”
In addition, Dark Horse has said it will include:
- An intimate look at Lemire’s personal life, and his struggles with his mental health informed his most iconic works including Sweet Tooth, Essex County and The Underwater Welder;
- Lemire’s accounts of what it’s really like to work for DC and Marvel Comics;
- Lemire’s struggle to maintain his own voice while taking on some of comics most iconic characters;
- Insights into the adaptation of Sweet Tooth for Netflix’s hit TV series;
- An unprecedented look at Lemire’s creative process through never-before-seen sketches and archives and how he built the worlds of Descender, Black Hammer, Gideon Falls and more;
- Archival reproductions of Lemire’s very first self-published mini-comics and other rare comics from early in his 25-year career.
Look for it to arrive in stores on July 15.