Interview Of

Jeff Lemire

Cartoonist.

The Cultural Questionnaire.

What’s your favorite line from a movie?

‘The owls are not what they seem’, from Twin Peaks.

Which movie do you love but would be embarrassed to talk about in a serious, intellectual conversation?

I don’t think I’d be embarrassed to talk about any movie I liked.

The tune of the moment?

‘Run Me Out’, Zola Jesus.

Name a museum where you’d be happy to be locked in for the night.

The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. I take my 3-year old son there at least twice a month. If I was locked there for a night, I would have a lot of animals to draw and I could sleep in The Bat Cave.

The three books you’d take with you for a very, very, very long 100% environmentally friendly trip overseas?

  • Through Black Spruce, by Joseph Boyden.
  • The Game, by Ken Dryden.
  • Cold Skin, by Albert Sánchez Piñol.

What painting would you steal if you could magically become invisible for a few hours?

Not a painting actually, but DC Comics editor Joe Hughes has a life-size cut out of Animal Man in his office that I’d steal.

Which artist, alive or not, in any given field, would you love to party with for a wild, wild night?

Shane MacGowan.