Chris G.C. Sequeira
Encyclopedia
Christopher Sequeira (also published as Chris G.C. Sequeira, Christopher G.C. Sequeira, C.G.C. Sequeira) is a Sydney
-based Australia
n writer and artist who works predominantly in the speculative fiction realm, especially with the horror, science fiction and mystery genres. His published work includes poetry, prose (especially short fiction), film and television scripts and comicbook scripts. Sequeira is a veteran Australian comic writer, creating and writing a horde of heroic and horrific concepts that have appeared on newsstands nationwide in Australia, including PULSE OF DARKNESS, RATTLEBONE: THE PULP-FACED DETECTIVE, THE BORDERLANDER, and many others.
He has also written for U.S. publishers, most notably contributing a Dazzler story in the recent X-MEN: CURSE OF THE MUTANTS – X-MEN VS. VAMPIRES #1. In Australia, Sequeira is currently writing DARK DETECTIVE: SHERLOCK HOLMES, an original Sherlock Holmes
series also published by Black House Comics.
Sequeira has also released his ‘Pulse of Darkness: The Vampire Syndrome’ graphic novel (2010), a 140-page collection of art from the cream of Aussie comics artists like Kurt Stone, Gary Chaloner
, W. Chew ‘Chewie’ Chan, Paul Abstruse, Jan Scherpenhuizen, Dan Lynch and Swampy O’Reilly. .
A keen Holmes enthusiast, Sequeira is a longtime member of the Sherlock Holmes
Society "The Sydney Passengers", and has played both Holmes and Professor Moriarty
in various dramatic re-enactments (including a filmed-for-Australian-national-TV segment wherein he portrayed Moriarty's plunge to his death in battle with Holmes at Reichenbach Falls
- in this case Leura Falls outside Sydney served the purpose).
He has self-published and published the works of others under the imprints of Opal Press Australia and Sequence Productions Pty Ltd. Sequeira has been a regular guest at comics and pop culture expos in Australia including Supanova and Armageddon.
Sequeira's association with cape-wearing pop-icons continued when his wedding ceremony in 1999 was covered on Australian national TV. This costume-party marriage featured Australia's first use of a celebrant in the persona of Elvis Presley
(Sequeira himself was dressed as Count Dracula, wife Jacqui was the Countess Dracula
, groomsmen were Batman
villains Penguin, Two-Face and Riddler, and bridesmaids were styled as movie goddesses Marilyn Monroe
, Vivien Leigh
and Elizabeth Taylor
). Sequeira and his future wife had persuaded Sydney civil wedding celebrant Russell Hansen to become Australia's first Elvis-styled celebrant, a role for which Hansen is now locally well-known.
Sequeira, who lives with his wife and two children in Sydney, continues to write for various pop culture projects including the Boss Beat television project for brother Jonathan Sequeira.
, Eddie, Phantastique Terror Australis: Best Australian Horror
and The Australian H.P. Lovecraft Centenary Calendar (1990). His story "Too Many Number Sixteens" appears in Midnight Echo 5 (Feb 2011)http://www.australianhorror.com/member_home.php?view=260, published by the Australian Horror Writers Association
. For Holmesian fiction, see below.
His verse and non-fiction have appeared in Shoggoth and Terror Australis
, and Sequeira also provided an introduction to the short story collection Skin Tight (1995) by fellow horror writer Bryce J. Stevens
.
Society, Passengers' Log. One of these, "No Stranger to the Knife: Sherlock Holmes
Vs Jack the Ripper
", has been praised by eminent Sherlock Holmes scholar Leslie S. Klinger
as "a brilliant paper" in his Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes Reference Library)(Oxford University Press, 2003).
Sequeira sold three Sherlockian short stories to anthologies appearing in 2008. "His Last Arrow" in Charles Prepolec (ed) Gaslight Grimoire
: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes (Edge Publishing) was nominated for a WSFA Small Press Award
in 2009. Two other Holmesian stories - "The Return of the Sussex Vampire" and "The Adventure of the Haunted Showman" - appeared in David Stuart Davies
(ed) Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot! (Wordsworth). "The Adventure of the Haunted Showman" was also reprinted in The Dark Detective Sherlock Holmes Issue 6 (Dec 2010).
"The Return of the Sussex Vampire" will be reprinted in a forthcoming anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg
. Two further Holmesian stories are forthcoming in Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook (Moonstone Publishing).
His graphic story "I'm Gonna Stake You, Sucka" (with art by Sana Takeda)appears in X-Men: Curse of the Mutants: X-Men vs Vampires No 1 (2010) (Marvel Comics
).
Sequeira's Iron Man
story "Making an Appearance" (with art by W. Chew Chan) appears in in Astonishing Tales No 1 (2009) (Marvel Comics
).
Sequeira's scripts have appeared in the DC Comics
titles Justice League Adventures ("Cold War", Issue 12 http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League_Adventures_Vol_1_12 & "Venomous Agenda", Issue 23), and 9/11: Artists Respond ("Tall Buildings").
His graphic Cthulhu Mythos
story "Incorporation" appears in Cthulhu Tales No 11 (Boom! Studios).
In June 2009 Sequeira launched a new bimonthly Sherlock Holmes
comic, Sherlock Holmes: Dark Detective published by Australia's Black House Comics. http://www.blackhousecomics.com/. The comic is produced in collaboration with makeup artist Dave Elsey, who won the Academy Award with Rick Baker for makeup on The Wolfman (2010 film) (see 83rd Academy Awards
), Phillip Cornell and Jan Scherpenhuizen. Academy Award-winning makeup artist Rick Baker makes a special appearance in one issue as Professor Moriarty
. Issue 6 was published in Dec 2010.
Comic/graphic novel productions under the Opal Press and Sequence Productions imprint:
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
-based Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n writer and artist who works predominantly in the speculative fiction realm, especially with the horror, science fiction and mystery genres. His published work includes poetry, prose (especially short fiction), film and television scripts and comicbook scripts. Sequeira is a veteran Australian comic writer, creating and writing a horde of heroic and horrific concepts that have appeared on newsstands nationwide in Australia, including PULSE OF DARKNESS, RATTLEBONE: THE PULP-FACED DETECTIVE, THE BORDERLANDER, and many others.
He has also written for U.S. publishers, most notably contributing a Dazzler story in the recent X-MEN: CURSE OF THE MUTANTS – X-MEN VS. VAMPIRES #1. In Australia, Sequeira is currently writing DARK DETECTIVE: SHERLOCK HOLMES, an original Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
series also published by Black House Comics.
Sequeira has also released his ‘Pulse of Darkness: The Vampire Syndrome’ graphic novel (2010), a 140-page collection of art from the cream of Aussie comics artists like Kurt Stone, Gary Chaloner
Gary Chaloner
Gary Chaloner is an Australian comic book artist and writer. Born in Sydney in 1963, he began self publishing in 1985 with David de Vries, Glenn Lumsden and Tad Pietrzykowski under the Cyclone Comics imprint. He has collaborated with Ashley Wood, Ben Templesmith, Kurt Busiek, Stephen Jewell and Tim...
, W. Chew ‘Chewie’ Chan, Paul Abstruse, Jan Scherpenhuizen, Dan Lynch and Swampy O’Reilly. .
A keen Holmes enthusiast, Sequeira is a longtime member of the Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
Society "The Sydney Passengers", and has played both Holmes and Professor Moriarty
Professor Moriarty
Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character and the archenemy of the detective Sherlock Holmes in the fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon of Crime". Doyle lifted the phrase from a real Scotland Yard inspector who was...
in various dramatic re-enactments (including a filmed-for-Australian-national-TV segment wherein he portrayed Moriarty's plunge to his death in battle with Holmes at Reichenbach Falls
Reichenbach Falls
The Reichenbach Falls are a series of waterfalls on the River Aar near Meiringen in Bern canton in central Switzerland. They have a total drop of 250 m . At 90 m , the Upper Reichenbach Falls is one of the highest cataracts in the Alps...
- in this case Leura Falls outside Sydney served the purpose).
He has self-published and published the works of others under the imprints of Opal Press Australia and Sequence Productions Pty Ltd. Sequeira has been a regular guest at comics and pop culture expos in Australia including Supanova and Armageddon.
Sequeira's association with cape-wearing pop-icons continued when his wedding ceremony in 1999 was covered on Australian national TV. This costume-party marriage featured Australia's first use of a celebrant in the persona of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
(Sequeira himself was dressed as Count Dracula, wife Jacqui was the Countess Dracula
Countess Dracula
Countess Dracula is a 1971 Hammer horror film based on the legends surrounding the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory. It is in many ways atypical of Hammer's canon, attempting to broaden Hammer's output from Dracula and Frankenstein sequels....
, groomsmen were Batman
Batman
Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...
villains Penguin, Two-Face and Riddler, and bridesmaids were styled as movie goddesses Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
, Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier was an English actress. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, alongside Clark...
and Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age...
). Sequeira and his future wife had persuaded Sydney civil wedding celebrant Russell Hansen to become Australia's first Elvis-styled celebrant, a role for which Hansen is now locally well-known.
Sequeira, who lives with his wife and two children in Sydney, continues to write for various pop culture projects including the Boss Beat television project for brother Jonathan Sequeira.
Award nominations
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | WSFA Small Press Award WSFA Small Press Award The WSFA Small Press Award was inaugurated by the Washington Science Fiction Association in 2007. The award is open to works of imaginative literature published in English for the first time in the previous calendar year... |
"His Last Arrow" | Original imaginative/speculative fiction published by a small press | Nomination |
Works edited
- Tides of Hope. A one-shot graphic novel collection in support of the relief appeal for victims of the 2010 Queensland floods.
- Terror AustralisTerror AustralisTerror Australis: the Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine was Australia's first mass market horror magazine. It succeeded the Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine edited by Barry Radburn and Stephen Studach and was the first magazine of its kind in Australia to pay authors...
magazine (1987–92). Co-edited with Leigh BlackmoreLeigh BlackmoreLeigh David Blackmore is an Australian horror writer, critic, editor, occultist and musician. He served as the second President of the Australian Horror Writers Association . His work has been nominated twice for the Ditmar Award, once for fiction and once for criticism...
and Bryce J. StevensBryce J. StevensBryce John Stevens is a horror writer/artist.Between 1987 and 1992 he co-edited, , Terror Australis: The Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine...
. - Groves, Peter. Fruit from the Primeval Groves. Sydney: Sequence Productions, 1997. Verse.
Fiction, Art, Verse, Non-Fiction
Sequeira's short stories and art have appeared in BloodsongsBloodsongs
Bloodsongs magazine was created by Steve Proposch and Chris A. Masters in 1993 as a vehicle for original horror fiction. It was published by Bambada Press in Melbourne Australia from 1993 to 1997....
, Eddie, Phantastique Terror Australis: Best Australian Horror
Terror Australis: Best Australian Horror
Terror Australis: Best Australian Horror was Australia's first original mass-market horror anthology for adults. It was edited by Leigh Blackmore....
and The Australian H.P. Lovecraft Centenary Calendar (1990). His story "Too Many Number Sixteens" appears in Midnight Echo 5 (Feb 2011)http://www.australianhorror.com/member_home.php?view=260, published by the Australian Horror Writers Association
Australian Horror Writers Association
The Australian Horror Writers Association is a non-profit organisation that commenced in 2003 with the goal of providing a unified voice and sense of community for Australian writers of dark fiction and to further the development of dark fiction in Australia.-History:The AHWA built to some extent...
. For Holmesian fiction, see below.
His verse and non-fiction have appeared in Shoggoth and Terror Australis
Terror Australis
Terror Australis: the Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine was Australia's first mass market horror magazine. It succeeded the Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine edited by Barry Radburn and Stephen Studach and was the first magazine of its kind in Australia to pay authors...
, and Sequeira also provided an introduction to the short story collection Skin Tight (1995) by fellow horror writer Bryce J. Stevens
Bryce J. Stevens
Bryce John Stevens is a horror writer/artist.Between 1987 and 1992 he co-edited, , Terror Australis: The Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine...
.
Holmesian Work
Sequeira has contributed many essays and articles on Holmesian matters to the journal of the Sydney Passengers Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
Society, Passengers' Log. One of these, "No Stranger to the Knife: Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
Vs Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper
"Jack the Ripper" is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter, written by someone claiming to be the murderer, that was disseminated in the...
", has been praised by eminent Sherlock Holmes scholar Leslie S. Klinger
Leslie S. Klinger
Leslie S. Klinger is an American attorney and writer. He is a noted literary editor and annotator of classic mystery fiction, including the Sherlock Holmes stories and the novel Dracula....
as "a brilliant paper" in his Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes Reference Library)(Oxford University Press, 2003).
Sequeira sold three Sherlockian short stories to anthologies appearing in 2008. "His Last Arrow" in Charles Prepolec (ed) Gaslight Grimoire
Gaslight Grimoire
Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes is an anthology of short fiction combining the character of Sherlock Holmes with elements of fantasy, horror, adventure and supernatural fiction....
: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes (Edge Publishing) was nominated for a WSFA Small Press Award
WSFA Small Press Award
The WSFA Small Press Award was inaugurated by the Washington Science Fiction Association in 2007. The award is open to works of imaginative literature published in English for the first time in the previous calendar year...
in 2009. Two other Holmesian stories - "The Return of the Sussex Vampire" and "The Adventure of the Haunted Showman" - appeared in David Stuart Davies
David Stuart Davies
David Stuart Davies is a British writer. He worked as a teacher of English before becoming a full-time editor, writer, and playwright. Davies has written extensively about Sherlock Holmes, both fiction and non-fiction...
(ed) Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot! (Wordsworth). "The Adventure of the Haunted Showman" was also reprinted in The Dark Detective Sherlock Holmes Issue 6 (Dec 2010).
"The Return of the Sussex Vampire" will be reprinted in a forthcoming anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg
Martin H. Greenberg
Martin Harry Greenberg was an American speculative fiction anthologist and writer.-Biography:Dr. Martin H. Greenberg was born March 1, 1941, to Max and Mae Greenberg in South Miami Beach, Florida...
. Two further Holmesian stories are forthcoming in Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook (Moonstone Publishing).
Radio
Sequeira briefly hosted a radio show, The Darkness Before the Dawn on 2RRR-FM in Sydney.(1986)Comics Written and Published
Sequeira has a story in the forthcoming Kagamono anthology.His graphic story "I'm Gonna Stake You, Sucka" (with art by Sana Takeda)appears in X-Men: Curse of the Mutants: X-Men vs Vampires No 1 (2010) (Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
).
Sequeira's Iron Man
Iron Man
Iron Man is a fictional character, a superhero in the . The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee, developed by scripter Larry Lieber, and designed by artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby, first appearing in Tales of Suspense #39 .A billionaire playboy, industrialist and ingenious engineer,...
story "Making an Appearance" (with art by W. Chew Chan) appears in in Astonishing Tales No 1 (2009) (Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
).
Sequeira's scripts have appeared in the DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
titles Justice League Adventures ("Cold War", Issue 12 http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League_Adventures_Vol_1_12 & "Venomous Agenda", Issue 23), and 9/11: Artists Respond ("Tall Buildings").
His graphic Cthulhu Mythos
Cthulhu Mythos
The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu - a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus...
story "Incorporation" appears in Cthulhu Tales No 11 (Boom! Studios).
In June 2009 Sequeira launched a new bimonthly Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
comic, Sherlock Holmes: Dark Detective published by Australia's Black House Comics. http://www.blackhousecomics.com/. The comic is produced in collaboration with makeup artist Dave Elsey, who won the Academy Award with Rick Baker for makeup on The Wolfman (2010 film) (see 83rd Academy Awards
83rd Academy Awards
The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2010 and took place February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, Academy Awards ...
), Phillip Cornell and Jan Scherpenhuizen. Academy Award-winning makeup artist Rick Baker makes a special appearance in one issue as Professor Moriarty
Professor Moriarty
Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character and the archenemy of the detective Sherlock Holmes in the fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon of Crime". Doyle lifted the phrase from a real Scotland Yard inspector who was...
. Issue 6 was published in Dec 2010.
Comic/graphic novel productions under the Opal Press and Sequence Productions imprint:
- Pulse of Darkness. Reissued in collected form as Pulse of Darkness: The Vampire Syndrome (Cult Fiction Comics Australia, 2010).
- Rattlebone: The Pulp-Faced Detective
- Bold Action
- Mister Blood
- Jonny Flathead: Psychotronic Werewolf
- Dig This!
- The Borderlander.
External links
- Chris Sequeira page at Armageddon Expo 2010 - http://armageddonexpo.com/au/comics-sci-fi-fantasy-trading-cards/christopher-sequeira-writer#skiptop
- Carroll, David. "Sequence Comics: A Review" at tabula-rasa.info http://www.tabula-rasa.info/AusComics/SequenceReview.html
- Cox, Debbie. "Zooming into the World of Comics, Graphic Novels and Zines'. http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/gateways/issues/100/story09.html
- Dark Detective Comic - http://www.blackhousecomics.com/Black%20House%20Comics%20X3_page6.htm
- Trouble magazine interview: "Comic Book Heroes Chris Sequeira and Chew Chan". http://www.introuble.com.au/www2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=101&Itemid=65
- Summary of Chris Sequeira's Sherlockian stories - http://www.schoolandholmes.com/summariess.html
- WSFA Small Press Awards - http://www.wsfasmallpressaward.org/