Minor Arcana #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMinor Arcana #1 marks Jeff Lemire's first creator-owned ongoing series at BOOM! Studios and, by every account, his first solely self-authored ongoing series since Sweet Tooth — making it a genuine career milestone for one of the most prolific cartoonists of his generation. The issue introduces protagonist Theresa St. Pierre and her hometown of Limberlost, establishing a tarot-structured supernatural narrative conceived from the start as a multi-arc, 22-issue run — an ambitious commitment to the ongoing-series format that Lemire himself identified as a deliberate creative stand against the industry's drift toward short-form limited series. The book drew immediate comparison to the landmark Vertigo titles of the 1990s, with Lemire framing it explicitly as his love letter to that 'first wave' of Vertigo comics, situating the series in a direct creative lineage with Sandman, Hellblazer, and House of Secrets. Selling out its first print run at the distributor level and earning a second printing within weeks of launch, it became one of BOOM! Studios' most talked-about debut issues of the decade.
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The concept for Minor Arcana grew out of Lemire's work on the Essex County television production in Canada circa 2021–2022; he originally envisioned it as a project he would write for another artist, but his deepening connection to the characters and world led him to decide to write, draw, and color the series himself. The timing of the project's development coincided with the expiration of Lemire's Image Comics exclusive arrangement, and his reconnection with BOOM! Studios editor Eric Harburn and Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon — collaborators he had long wanted to work with — sealed the publisher choice. Before the September 4, 2024 comic-shop launch, BOOM! previewed the series at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 via a limited ashcan edition featuring an exclusive tarot-card variant cover by Lemire with rounded corners physically designed to mimic a tarot card; that ashcan sold out on the convention floor.
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- Writer and artist: Jeff Lemire, solely writing and drawing the series himself; letterer: Steve Wands.
- Published by BOOM! Studios; official on-sale date: September 4, 2024 (not 2025 as sometimes listed — see flagged note).
- Introduces protagonist Theresa St. Pierre, estranged daughter of a small-town psychic fraud, who returns to the Canadian town of Limberlost to care for her ailing mother and gradually discovers she may possess genuine psychic abilities.
- Represents Lemire's first creator-owned ongoing series at BOOM! Studios and his first solely self-authored ongoing since Sweet Tooth.
- The series is architecturally structured around the tarot: four story arcs mirror the four suits of a tarot deck, to be collected as The Book of Wands, The Book of Swords, The Book of Cups, and The Book of Pentacles respectively; Lemire had plotted the overall series to at least 22 issues before launch.
- Each issue carries a tarot-card variant cover illustrated by Lemire, designed to accumulate into a complete tarot deck by series' end; issue #1's tarot variant depicts The Fool.
- Issue #1 features variant covers by Tula Lotay, Dustin Nguyen, David Mack, and Mike Del Mundo, plus a BOOM! Direct Reserve exclusive by Fernando Rosales.
- First print sold out at the distributor level; a second printing with new cover art by Lemire was announced and shipped October 2, 2024.
- A convention-exclusive ashcan previewing the first issue — with a unique rounded-corner tarot variant cover — debuted at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 and sold out on the show floor.
- The first five issues were collected as Minor Arcana Vol. 1 (The Book of Wands), available in trade paperback from BOOM! Studios.
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