The walls of Jeff Lemire’s Toronto studio are covered with artwork from other graphic novelists. "I love bouncing between things," he says. His studio, which is part gallery and part comic-book store, is evidence of the breadth and depth of his work, which ranges from contemplative coming-of-age stories to complicated space operas: shelves crammed with books and collectibles the walls overtaken by original art, not only by Lemire but artists he's collaborated with and friends in the industry drawers crammed full of plastic-wrapped comics multiple desks, depending on whether he's drawing or writing. It's the one time I shut that part of my brain off and do something else." "All I do, all day, is comics, every day. "Hockey is my only escape from comics," he says. He's played the sport his entire life – not well, mind you, but "I'm not the worst guy." He's an all-purpose forward on the famed Flying Burritos of the GTHLA – the Good Times Hockey League of the Arts, a Toronto beer league lousy with writers, musicians and artists, in which Lemire has been playing since he was a line cook working the night shift at a local Tex-Mex joint (thus the team name) and not one of the biggest names in contemporary comics.
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