2019 - Talking 10,000 Ink Stains: A Memoir with Jeff Lemire

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Author and creator Jeff Lemire joins us for this episode to celebrate the release of 10,000 Ink Stains: A Memoir from Dark Horse. A look back at twenty-five years of making comics while reflecting on his personal life, our conversation covers topics such as developing and staying true to a unique vision, independent vs mainstream comic work, various milestones in his early career, the Black Hammer Universe, the New 52, working with Keith Giffen, accolades for his current series Minor Arcana and so much more! (1:11:30)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Geekspeak episode 2019, talking 10,000 ink stains with Jeff Lemire.
0:11.0	You got it on Wednesday, and it was like about it going to the volume of.
0:16.0	These guys will talk about it, everything the geeks love from kids a laser beads.
0:19.7	The plans like the sneez is on everything you read.
0:22.5	Comic, movie, game, toys, artists, come.
0:26.6	Comic, speak.
0:27.7	Come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, comic, come,
0:30.5	comic, come, come, comic, speak.
0:33.7	Uniting the world's mightiest heroes.
0:38.3	This is! Welcome to Comic Comic Geek. Uniting the world's mightiest heroes. This is Welcome to the show.
0:41.3	I'm Brian Deemer.
0:42.3	I'm Peter Rios.
0:48.3	And welcome to the show.
0:52.3	So we're very fortunate to have Jeff Lemire joining us today to talk about his new book from Dark Horse. It's a memoir about his life and comics so far called 10,000 Inksteins. Spans the first 25 years of his storied career. Jeff does a deep dive into the making of each of
1:14.1	his seminal creations from Essex County to Sweet Tooth to Black Hammer and beyond. And the book
1:20.1	is just full of really awesome stuff. And you can check it out from Dark Horse. Nice hardcover.
1:27.0	Release date. Nice to oversize. July 15th. What's the price on it?
1:32.9	It is 5499. Okay. Over 200 pages and looking at the contents, you know, it's broken up by his projects, but there's a lot of personal stuff to it as well, as you're going to hear when we do the interview.
1:50.0	We've already talked to Jeff. He's been on the show several times. We bring that up a couple times.
1:57.0	And it just, it's great to catch up. Great to catch up.
2:01.5	And so interesting to see his journey, not only on the page, but as a comic artist and as a person as well.
2:10.4	And it was just a fun interview.
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