DF Interview: Christopher Sebela brings found footage horror to the comic book page with ‘Blink’



By Byron Brewer

Wren Booker was three when she was found catatonic and covered in blood on the streets of New York. Since that day, she's been haunted by a childhood she can't remember. After decades of searching, Wren stumbles upon a cryptic website streaming multiple CCT feeds from strange rooms in a ruined building and something clicks, setting off hidden memories that lead her back to a place she's seen in lifelong nightmares. Hunting for answers, Wren breaks into the building, but instead finds herself entangled in the camera-filled dark mazes of a decayed social experiment known only as Blink.

Eisner-nominated Christopher Sebela (Dirtbag Rapture), Hayden Sherman (Thumbs), and Nick Filardi (Rogue Planet) team up for a found footage horror where uncovering your past will leave you trapped inside it.
Truth? Oni Press had me at “Christopher Sebela”. So I sat down with the scribe to chat Blink!


Byron Brewer: Chris, I am not sure this is the case for everyone, but I myself have had recurring nightmares that I sometimes imagine (?) to be repressed childhood memories. Talk about how this works into your coming comic Blink, and was there any occurrence of these in your life that may have been inspiration?



Christopher Sebela: Actually, a lot of Blink is inspired by nightmare stuff for me. I’ve been plagued most of my life by dreams/nightmares about mazes and labyrinthian places. Enough that I’m almost aware, when the dream starts, that it’s a dream. I’ve even had crossover with real life with people I’ve told about these dreams showing up in them and I tell them, “Hey, you’re in the dream I was telling you about.” So I definitely mined a lot of that for this book, if only to try and purge it from my brain once and for all, though I doubt that will actually work.



Byron: Wow!… Introduce readers to Wren Booker and talk about what experiences – or lack of memory thereof – have brought her to the point we find her in Blink. How have lifelong nightmares formed the person Wren is now?

Christopher Sebela: Wren is a freelance writer/journalist who investigates missing persons cases, because she’s a missing person herself. She has no memories of where she came from before she was found wandering the streets as a little kid, barely any memories of who her parents were, it’s a big blank spot. A side-effect of that is she’s plagued with sleep paralysis and the sort of demonic presences that people who suffer from it report. Whether that’s related to where she came from, well, that remains to be seen.



Byron: Can you give us an overview of the series, a summation of sorts… without spoilers, of course.



Christopher Sebela: Blink is the story of Wren Booker, who has spent her life in search of her past, discovering the biggest clue to the answers she’s been seeking from a website that appears online and immediately vanishes full of video feeds of a space that she recognizes deep down in her bones. Wren manages to track down where the feeds were coming from and she goes to find out what this place is and what happened to her. But once she’s inside, she’s trapped with a lot of darkness, monsters and mysteries she has to solve to escape with her life. There’s a lot of found footage horror elements and lots of stuff much weirder than that packed in here, all translated to amazing effect by Hayden Sherman and Nick Filardi.



Byron: What other important characters might readers need to know about? Can you spotlight some here?



Christopher Sebela: This really is Wren’s story, through and through. There are some secondary characters here and there but the important character is Wren and the most important thing to her is solving the mystery of herself and her origins. She’s truly obsessed to the point of letting the rest of her life slip, so any other people are just help or hindrance in that mission as far as Wren is concerned. And once she gets trapped inside, the sides get a lot blurrier.



Byron: I love the fact that Wren discovers the most important of clues to her lifelong search for answers on a random website. How else today would folks find anything BUT on a website? Talk about this important story tool and how it may reflect our times, as do things she later finds in the ruined building.



Christopher Sebela: Blink is really my first attempt at incorporating things from one of my favorite sub-genres — found footage horror. You can’t really do a direct translation of that kind of movie into comics, but I tried to harness the vibes and feeling of them into this narrative. So a lot of the storytelling comes from things that Wren watches or listens to, and her own storytelling comes in the forms of writing for an audience on a Patreon-like platform. But the heart of this story is a lot about surveillance, about the privacies we give up willingly and what kind of effect they have on us and on the world around us.



Byron: Tell readers about your collaboration on this comic with artist Hayden Sherman. Why are they the right artist for this mag?



Christopher Sebela: Hayden and I worked together on a creator-owned book at AfterShock called Cold War and it was my first time working with them but I was immediately blown away. And Blink was a story I’d been wanting to tell for years at that point, but I could never find a collaborator who I thought fit really well. I wasn’t sure what I was looking for, but I knew when it wasn’t what I was looking for. I just thought Hayden would do some really interesting stuff if nothing else, so I asked them right after we wrapped up that book if they’d want to do a horror thing and they said yes. It took a couple of years until we could actually work on it because Hayden is rightfully in demand all over the place, but I think it worked out really well because Hayden’s storytelling chops and experimentalism have only gotten better in the ensuing years. It was one of those instinct kind of decisions on my part and it’s really paid off. No one else could have drawn Blink and told the story the same way.



Byron: Chris, what other projects do you have coming that you can tell readers about?



Christopher Sebela: I’m currently writing the last two issues of Foulbrood, a book about bees and crime that we’ve been kickstarting in batches of two. Our new campaign is coming up in June and Claire Roe, my collaborator, is starting in on issue 5 right now. The trade paperback for my supernatural stoner comedy book, Dirtbag Rapture, is coming out in August from Oni Press and it’s really dang good. Besides that, I have a couple of unannounced books, one from Vault Comics and another with AfterShock and I’ve got a jillion things in progress in various forms as always.



Dynamic Forces would like to thank Christopher Sebela for taking time out of his busy schedule to answer our questions. Blink #1 from Oni Press is slated to be on sale July 27th!



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