Mad little notes : November 2014

Stjepan Sejic artwork from His Comic series Death Vigil, Image from comicbook.com

Stjepan Sejic is an Comic book artist that produces and writes his own comics series.1,12 He is a self publishing illustrator who is currently creating four comic series.1,12 The series are Death Vigil, Ravine, Twitch and Sunstone.1,12,13 He also does the covers for comics for companies such as Top Cow, Zenescope, Dynamite and DC comics.1

Stjepan Sejic got his creative influenced to create comics by his visit to an exhibition called Comic Biennale which gave him the idea that he wanted to work in the comic industry.2 One of the comics that influenced him at the exhibition was Witchblade.3 “I was sixteen when the exhibition called Comic Biennale came to a museum in the city of Rijeka, where I went to high school. We went there to check it out and there I got the idea to try drawing comics. I saw a cover to a comic with a peculiarly memorable title, Witchblade.”4 This title was stuck in his head and used this as his influence when he went to college where he got started drawing comics. He was consider to have a very low chance of becoming a comic book artist by his peers and lecturers.5,6 He was fortunate that fate gave him a chance and he started illustrating Witchblade in his third year. 7 “The real kicker is that I read my first issue of Witchblade in the third year of college.”7

Stjepan works for the company Top Cow, for this company he creates comics and covers for them and the artwork for the current series of witchblade.1 Top cow has helped Stjepan Sejic when it comes to him making his own comic series by publishing it for him. “when I make a suggestion or have an idea... they listen”.16 When it come to Stjepan Sejic creating his comics he normally creates some random doodles then while he creates them, the story of the characters just comes to him. 16 “what Drives me? What drives any storyteller? There is a bunch of characters jumping on top of my head and poking me to write their stories.”16 This process that he uses created the comics series Death Vigil.16 “I drew a character out of boredom and the ungrateful bastard started talking.”8 When it comes to designs such as Death Vigil he does everything. “Question: from Nrama: For death here, you did the entire production of the book- from writing to drawings, colouring and lettering.12 Answer: from Stjepan It is ideal for me right now.”14 Also Stjepan Sejic adds a lot of depth to his stories, 9 so that the characters feel more alive and he also shows this by making the first volume of Death Vigil 46 pages long.10 “Simple. Characters needed some room to be themselves.”11

Stjepan Sejic’s chosen media of uses is Photoshop when creating his doodles and comics. Stjepan is very quick at producing work every day. “Generally, on a slow day it is two comic pages a day, plus some additional side gigs and projects depending on what I mood I am in”.15

Reference

Stjepan Sejic Deviantart account (2006), bio
Elisabeth (2011), tfaw, Paragraph eleven, sentences one to two
Elisabeth (2011), tfaw, Paragraph eleven, sentences two to six
Elisabeth (2011), tfaw, Paragraph eleven, whole paragraph
Elisabeth (2011), tfaw, Paragraph twelve, sentences three to four
Elisabeth (2011), tfaw, Paragraph twelve, sentences six to eight
Elisabeth (2011), tfaw, Paragraph thirteen, sentences three to four
John (2014), Unleashthefanboy, paragraph nine, one to two
John (2014), Unleashthefanboy, paragraph thirteen, whole paragraph
Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph twenty one, sentence one
Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph twenty two, whole paragraph
Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph thirty four, sentences one to two
Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph twenty nine, sentences one to five
Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph thirty five, sentence one
Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph forty four, whole paragraph
Chris (2014), Newsarama, paragraph thirty one, whole paragraph

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Reporter: Chris Arrant

Report created on the 9^th July 2014