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Emma Vieceli, Titan's Best-Selling Comics Writer, Gets Her Breaks on Life Is Strange

Published Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:00:31 -0500

It seems strange to regard Emma Vieceli as a veteran of the British comics industry. But there's no more accurate work. Comic creator, writer, artist, publisher, and organiser of the MCM Comic Village for a decade, she's embedded into British comic books like no one else. Which is a surprise then when she becomes an overnight sensation.

At San Diego Comic-Con last week, Titan Comics states that Life Is Strange, the game-licensed comic she writes for Titan, is their best seller. better than Robotech, Doctor Who, Rivers Of London, and Tank Girl. The launch of Blade Runner may have beaten it the other week, but Life Is Strange is Titan Comics' best selling continuing non-launch title by a significant degree.

Based on the episodic game from Dontnod Entertainment that focuses on Max Caulfield, an 18-year-old photography student who discovers that she has the ability to rewind time at any moment, leading her every choice to enact the butterfly effect. After having foreseen an approaching storm, Max must take on the responsibility to prevent it from destroying her town. The player's actions adjust the narrative as it unfolds, and reshape it once allowed to travel back in time.

Emma Vieceli was picked to write the comic adaptation after the success of her webcomic Breaks, a comic book about teenage relationships which, as she tells me, seems to have become her forte of late. And it's a label she's happy to embrace.

She's currently approaching the end of a Kickstarter for the second volume of Breaks. And she is grateful for the spotlight on her work, and the new audiences approaching her, that Life Is Strange has afforded her. They may have come for Strange. But they stay for the Vieceli…