He has also been nominated for 8 Eisner awards, 7 Harvey Awards and 8 Shuster Awards. He has also received The Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent and the American Library Association's prestigious Alex Award, recognizing books for adults with specific teen appeal. In 2008 and in 2013 Jeff won the Schuster Award for Best Canadian Cartoonist. The following timeline offers a step-by-step description of the events that lead to Ascender #1.Īscender #1 by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen debuts on April 24th in comic shops.New York Times Bestselling author Jeff Lemire has built a unique career as both the writer and artist of acclaimed literary graphic novels like Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Sweet Tooth and Trillium and also as one of the most popular writers of mainstream superhero comics with acclaimed runs on such titles as Green Arrow, Animal Man, Justice League and Hawkeye for Marvel and DC Comics.Ĭurrent projects include the original graphic novel ROUGHNECK to be published by Simon and Schuster in 2016, as well as the science fiction series DESCENDER with Dustin Nguyen and A.D. But while being a direct continuation of its preceding comic, Ascender also shifts genres, pivoting from sci-fi to fantasy as one girl discovers a world robbed of technology and infused with mystic wonder.
The upcoming series Ascendercarries over a handful of recognizable characters from Descender and introduces many, many new ones. The creative team used that premise to span worlds and millennia, diagramming a volatile sci-fi opera that pits man against machine.ĭescender concluded last July, but Lemire and Nguyen are far from finished with their transcendental odyssey. Throughout the course of 32 issues, Tim would discover that he's the missing link between a fleet of life-annihilating constructs and modern robotics. In March 2015, Descender #1 launched as writer Jeff Lemire and artist Dustin Nguyen introduced Tim-21, a lovable, optimistic companion robot thrust into a hostile cosmos.
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