Line #9 Creator/StjepanSejic


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3	->''"I write by drawing and I draw by writing."''
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5	Stjepan Šejić (born November 27, 1981 in Vinkovci, Croatia) is a Croatian comic book writer and artist. Šejić was born in Vinkovci and resides in Crikvenica, Croatia. Šejić started his career as a colorist, painting covers drawn by Tyler Kirkham. He was mainly inspired by Italian comics before he stumbled upon a copy of Top Cow's ''Witchblade'', which inspired his own art. His work is also influenced by Marc Silvestri and Michael Turner.
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7	In 2007, Šejić signed up to draw the art for ''Witchblade'' from issue #116 to #150, the longest run of the series drawn by a single artist once completed. He also illustrated the ''Witchblade'' miniseries ''First Born'' and ''Broken Trinity'', and covers of the Top Cow series ''The Darkness''. He also cooperates with smaller publishers such as Arcana Studio and Dynamite Entertainment. Since 2015, he has been focusing on his creator-owned titles, which include ''Sunstone'', ''Fine Print'', ''Death Vigil'', ''Ravine'', and ''The Queen & The Woodborn''.
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9	Šejić is married to fellow Croatian artist Creator/LindaLuksicSejic, and has said that he has mild Tourette's Syndrome. He's also known online by the username Nebezial ("celestial" in Croatian), often shortened just to [[FanNickname Neb]].
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11	!!Selected Bibliography:
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13	[[index]]
14	[[AC:Comic Books]]
15	* ''ComicBook/AphroditeIX''
16	* ''ComicBook/DeathVigil''
17	* ''ComicBook/FinePrint''
18	* ''ComicBook/{{Harleen}}''
19	* ''ComicBook/{{Ravine}}''
20	* ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}''
21	** ''ComicBook/{{Switch\|2015}}''
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23	[[AC:Webcomics]]
24	* ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}''
25	* ''Webcomic/TheQueenAndTheWoodborn''
26	* ''Webcomic/AchillesShieldmaidens''
27	[[/index]]
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29	!!Tropes found in Šejić's work:
30	* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: [[invoked]] The number of projects he has lined up (most of them personal and creator-owned) would supposedly keep him busy for at least over a decade.
31	* AuthorAppeal: Bondage, especially in ''Sunstone''.
32	* BackToBackBadasses: He drew a VariantCover for ''ComicBook/{{Pathfinder\|DynamiteComics}}: Origins'' #2 that depicted iconic cleric Kyra back-to-back with iconic paladin Seelah. The story portrays the two adventurers teaming up to fight a vampire infestation ([[spoiler:[[ActuallyNotAVampire actually chupacabras]]]]), though this specific pose doesn't appear.
33	* BondageIsBad: The idea behind ''Sunstone'' is to show that [[DefiedTrope it's not]]. The characters are all perfectly normal people with somewhat out-there kinks. But it's all SafeSaneAndConsensual and you shouldn't think lesser of them for it.
34	* BrainsAndBondage: The ''Sunstone''-verse in a nutshell, which fundamentally depicts BDSM aficionados as geeks about sex, who naturally have to be very intelligent to think up what they do with each other (the primary domme of the original series is a freelance computer programmer).
35	* ChainmailBikini: {{Parodied}} along with BareMidriffsAreFeminine in his [[https://www.geekxgirls.com/article.php?ID=1878 "Womb Power"]] short comic, which "explains" that the uterus generates a DeflectorShield to protect scantily clad female superheroes et al. from harm.
36	* GenreRoulette: While he's arguably best known for ''Sunstone'', a BDSM RomanticComedy, he's also written a lot of UrbanFantasy, plus folkloric fantasy in the case of ''Webcomic/TheQueenAndTheWoodborn'' and horror-comedy with ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'', while ''Webcomic/AchillesShieldmaidens'' is a SuperRobot-style mecha series.
37	* HasAType: It's particularly transparent in his one-off projects and random doodles, but then there are always the main characters of ''Sunstone'', which were popping out in his doodles looong before the series started and the way how he was handling his run with ''Witchblade''.
38	* {{Hunk}}: He draws as many MrFanservice characters as he does MsFanservice.
39	* LoopholeAbuse: Where MagicallyBindingContract come into his stories, at least one character ''will'' try to find or make a way to take advantage of the situation.
40	* OnlySixFaces: His characters largely suffer from this - and he's very much aware of that - but make up for it by being extremely expressive with distinct characterizations. This does, however, cause problems in crowd scenes, something that Šejić often commented on himself.
41	* StatuesqueStunner: Expect to have ''at least'' one female character that's taller than everyone else while also being pretty muscular (but without being a BrawnHilda) in each and every one of his projects. Said character is also going to be consistently portrayed as sexy precisely due to her brawny build.

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