Jeff Lemire Brings Small Town Horror To Life In New Series ‘Fishflies’ From Image Comics

by Olly MacNamee

Writer/artist Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, The Underwater Welder, The Bone Orchard Mythos)has another new horror series coming out with Image Comics this summer. Fishflies “will bring small town evils to life” with a first look today as well as with a special Free Comic Book Day edition on Saturday May 6th.

Here’s more:

“When a brutal and violent crime puts the life of an innocent teenage boy in the balance, it sets off a chain of events in bucolic Bell River, Ontario that will permanently change several residents’ lives. And as the manhunt heats up, a lonely girl named Franny Fox will form an unlikely friendship with a fugitive that leads them on an odyssey of discovery and redemption. Fishflies is a new tale of small-town surrealist horror that begins with a special extra-length debut issue.”

Lemire said of this new project:

“For years the books I both write and draw seem to switch back and forth between grounded, slice-of-life human drama like Essex County and Royal City or more genre driven work like Sweet Tooth. With Fishflies I really tried to combine these two aesthetics into one big story. Fishflies has the scale and drama of my more grounded work but also the genre fun and mythology of things like Gideon Falls. I think the result makes it unlike anything I’ve done before, yet very familiar at the same time.”