Emma Vieceli
Emma is a professional comicker and illustrator hailing from Essex in the UK. She operates from her secret base in a small village somewhere near Cambridge and has to pinch herself every morning just to check that this is all real. She has a Wikipedia page and this baffles and amazes her. With a strong Italian background, it's little wonder that her first comic love was Bonelli's Dylan Dog series when she was a pre-teen. Since then she has fallen in a big way for sequential art, in whatever form it comes. Her current reading passions are Death Note, Runaways, Naruto, the entire catalogue of Fumi Yoshinaga's works and anything with Quicksilver or Gambit in it ^_~ Though she has been coined as a 'manga artist', she feels her influences are fairly wide spread and is an advocate of less thinking and more enjoying when it comes to debating comic terminology and classification.
She often feels she hit the ground running with comics and has spent the last couple of years trying to catch up. Her first full length graphic novel was Hamlet, part of the Manga Shakespeare series published by SelfMadeHero. She was a winner of the first UK and Eire Tokyopop Rising Stars of Manga compeition and has since drawn a short story for Tokyopop, to be published later this year. She has also been working with Spacedog in the US and generally has her fingers in a few small pies most of the time. Alongside her professional career, she is a key member of UK manga collective Sweatdrop Studios, where she prints her own series, Dragon Heir, as well as contributing to the group's anthology collections. The group is close to her heart and she knows she wouldn't be where she is now without it.
Emma is especially excited about Violet as it's her first foray into drawing her own stories outside of Sweatdrop. She enjoys working with writers, but is thrilled to be doing her own writing this time, especially within a project that should be such a positive step forward for comics in the UK.
Lastly, Emma has a fear of writing in third person and finds the word 'badgers' to be highly amusing - as her Wikipedia page will testify.
All my strips
Violet, the super strong school girl!
Issues 13 - 29
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