![]() “It good to be reminded that there are real people out there reading my stuff.” “The only difference is that I would break up my schedule with trips every couple of months to comic conventions,” he says. You have to be comfortable with that.”Īs such, working during the COVID-19 lockdown hasn’t been a big adjustment for the prolific cartoonist. ”It’s you at the desk for hours and hours. It’s been written that Lemire dropped film for comics because the solitary nature of the latter appealed to him. ![]() “One person can create these stories and put them right into the readers’ hands.” “It’s a much more intimate way of communicating with your audience,” Lemire says. But, by the time he completed the film studies program at Ryerson University, his mind was already set on comics. Out of high school in the 1990s, he had thoughts of a career in film. Lemire grew up in Essex County, Ont., the setting for his breakout Essex County Trilogy from 2011. According to the character’s inventor, the Gus who arose from absentminded sketchpad doodling more than a decade ago represents hope. #Sweet tooth netflix seriesIn the original comic book series which ran for 40 issues on DC Comic’s Vertigo imprint between 2009 to 2013, the animal-boy’s freaky awkwardness is a far cry from the loveable Gus of the television version. in Felix Salten’s Bambi’s Children, no less of an authority than Bambi himself said this: “Your growing antlers are proof of your intimate place in the forest, for of all the things that live and grow only the trees and the deer shed their foliage each year and replace it more strongly, more magnificently.” The antlers can be seen as symbolic, in the at-one-with-nature vein. The rambunctious, orphaned Gus is on a journey, leaving the safety of the woods on a quest. The star of Sweet Tooth is 11-year-old Canadian actor Christian Convery, an adorable creature himself, whose Gus character has antlers, floppy ears and innocence for miles – a cherubic bundle of wholesomeness (wrapped in a lumberjack shirt for a touch of Canadiana). Most of the people Gus encounters, however, are protective of him. He’s different – Bambi with a sling-shot. There is anger and suspicion directed by some at the forest-dwelling deer-boy. Though the Netflix version of Sweet Tooth is aimed at young audiences, the fable, in the classic folk-tale tradition, is not without its horror. Unlike most 10-year-olds, Gus is a human-deer hybrid, one of the animal-children born after the onset of a baffling viral pandemic that caused the humanity-devastating “Great Crumble.” ![]() Sweet Tooth is so named because of the young protagonist, Gus, who, like most 10-year-olds, is in favour of candy bars. Now he’s old enough to watch the show with me.” When I created Sweet Tooth 10 years ago, my son was a newborn. “But, I have to say, as a parent now, I kind of like that. “My book is darker and more violent than the show,” the 45-year-old says. ![]()
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