The book garnered a Xeric grant and an Ignatz nomination for Promising New Talent. In April 2010 Larmee's first book, Young Lions, was published. Larmee's writing for this blog established the atmosphere in which Young Lions was received. Leading up to the book's release, the two founded the blog Comets Comets, which became known for polemic essays and an embrace of troll culture. In 2009 Larmee was included alongside fellow cartoonist Jason Overby in Abstract Comics: The Anthology (Fantagraphics). Writing for The Comics Journal, Rob Clough noted, "It is difficult to separate Larmee’s theories from his actual work," and called Larmee "an artist obsessed with the underpinnings of art and a hyperacute awareness of an artist’s relationship with both one’s peers and the culture at large." Young Lions That is the second, and for me, most intriguing narrative here, and one inseparable from Larmee’s writing on art and comics." It is also, most obviously, the work of a young man (born in 1985) trying to understand the mythologies he’s interpreted for himself. Collins called Larmee's comics "beautiful, thoughtful, and unique enough to get by on their own" but lamented Larmee's "deeply unlikable internet persona." In a review of Young Lions, Dan Nadel wrote, Larmee's work tends to alienate viewers insofar as it is considered an extension of his critical writing and desire to understand the boundaries of critical art.
His time at CCS resulted in a public apology. He is a graduate of Colorado College and a former fellow at CCS. Larmee was born in New York City to the artist Kevin Larmee and grew up in Chicago, Illinois.
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