On his new-ish blog Talking with Tim, Tim O’Shea interviews Jeff Lemire about his Essex County trilogy and, um, noses:
O’Shea: This may be a strange question, but I have to ask: Do you really enjoy drawing noses? I have never seen an artist render characters with such spectacular noses.
Lemire: I actually get that a lot. Put it this way, every single panel that I ever have drawn that has a face in it, the first thing I draw is the nose and go from there. I think a lot of people see the eyes as the center of the face, or the most characteristic feature, but I see the nose as giving the whole face its personality.
The third volume of the trilogy is due in October.
