Jeff Lemire passed along word to us that he has a new graphic novel coming out from Top Shelf Productions, scheduled for release in 2011 called The Underwater Welder.  We’ve attached the press release below.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Coinciding with the launch of Top Shelf Production’s new website, the publisher has also announced Eisner nominated cartoonist Jeff Lemire’s (Essex County, Sweet Tooth) next original graphic novel, The Underwater Welder!

THE UNDERWATER WELDER BY JEFF LEMIRE

Pressure. As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from his young wife, and their unborn son. But then, something happens deep on the ocean floor. Jack has a strange and mind-bending encounter that will change the course of his life forever. … Equal parts blue-collar character study and mind-bending science fiction epic, The Underwater Welder is a 250-page graphic novel that explores fathers and sons, birth and death, memory and truth, and treasures we all bury deep down inside.

Due in late 2011, The Underwater Welder will be Lemire’s Top Shelf follow-up to the multi-award winning trilogy of Essex County Graphic novels. http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/jeff-lemire

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