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Straight for the art | Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth process

On his blog, cartoonist Jeff Lemire walks us through the creation of the fourth issue of his Vertigo series Sweet Tooth, from script and thumbnails to inks and colors.

“[The thumbnail sketches] are really rudimentary doodles, probably so much so that only I could decipher them,” Lemire writes. “But they just let me work out the panel structures and layout as well as the visual flow of the page. I take my script and reinterpret it, pacing out the beats of a scene or a conversation over panels. I often end up with a finished page that is very different from the script, as I tend to “write” best when drawing. The script is only a jumping off point.”