Christopher Sequeira

Christopher Sequeira
Born	Christopher Sequeira Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Pen name	Chris G.C. Sequeira Christopher G.C. Sequeira C.G.C. Sequeira
Occupation	Writer, comics scriptwriter, film scriptwriter
Nationality	Australian
Genres	Dark Fantasy, Crime
Notable work(s)	"His Last Arrow"

Christopher Sequeira (also published as Chris G.C. Sequeira, Christopher G.C. Sequeira, C.G.C. Sequeira) is a Sydney-based Australian 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).^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

Award nominations

Year	Award	Work	Category	Result
2009	WSFA Small Press Award	"His Last Arrow"	Original imaginative/speculative fiction published by a small press	Nomination "WSFA Small Press Award: The History". Washington Science Fiction Association. http://wsfasmallpressaward.org/The_History.php. Retrieved 2011-01-24. </ref>

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 Australis magazine (1987–92). Co-edited with Leigh Blackmore and Bryce J. Stevens.
• 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 Bloodsongs, 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)[1], 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.

Holmesian Work

Sequeira has contributed many essays and articles on Holmesian matters to the journal of the Sydney Passengers Sherlock Holmes 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).

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).

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 [2] & "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. [3]. 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:

• 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.

References

• Mike Ashley & William G. Contento. The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird and Horror Anthologies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995, p. 500.
• Paul Collins, ed. The MUP Encyclopedia of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Melbourne, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1998, p. 46.
• Leslie S. Klinger The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. NY: W.W. Norton, 2004.
• Shiell, Annette. Bonzer: Australian Comics 1900s-1990s. Redhill, Vic: Elgua Media, 1998, pp. 96, 99.
• Bryce J. Stevens (ed). The Fear Codex: The Australian Encyclopedia of Fantasy & Horror. Jacobyte Books, 2001 (CD-ROM).

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 [4]
• 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/

References

Persondata
Name	Sequeira, Christopher
Alternative names
Short description	Australian writer and artist
Date of birth
Place of birth	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date of death
Place of death