Vezun Book 1
"Sinizter"
price: $6.oo
done in 1994
media: Ink, dip pen with a little pen and some other cartidge pens on bristol board.
Color cover is water color with a little guoache and colored pencil.
60 pages black and white, color cover
graphic novel
saddle stitched (:staple in the middle, no spine)
print run: 500 copies

"Sinizter" reviewed by Sequential Tart

story: A spray can is born into a mythological realm and confronts the obstacles leading to
discovering his identity. (this story is unrelated to other vezun books)

comments: As I was graduating high school (92), Image comics was beginning to come out.
The way in which they were doing (with heavy importance on their individual style) comics
really got me thinking that I could do a comic (Before that comics had a more normal
drawing style which wasn't me. In other words, previously I liked comics, but didn't think I
could do one). It took me a long time to learn the many things that go into making a comic.
But, I focused on finding the right story to tell and tried to teach myself how to ink in the
mean time.
After studying graphic design and computer graphics briefly I began to airbrush t-shirts. At
which time, I had started to work on a couple of the pages for chapter 3 of this book. When I
got fired from my job airbrushing t-shirts. I took the opportunity to plot the rest of the book and
to do the book. I think it took me like 6 months. I paid for the printing and took it to the comic-con
(which left me hella broke). At the time my pseudonym was Sota Pop. My friends still mention this
book more than anything else i've done. It doesn't have word bubbles (just captions). The story
style is mythological (the use of symbolism and story style is probably influenced mostly from the
Bible) and the art is in a graffiti influenced style. The inks are intricate and heavy. My drawing took
a quantum leap forward somehow as I did this book and i'm still not sure how.
Even though I never was a graffiti artist, this is the first graffiti style comic book. Believe that.
Too bad it isn't available currently.

Here are the originals to the cover and then the color cover that I added like 2 or 3 years later.