| Sebastian O | |
|---|---|
 Steve Yeowell's cover toSebastian O #1 | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Vertigo |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | May – July1993 |
| No. of issues | 3 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Grant Morrison Steve Yeowell |
| Written by | Grant Morrison |
| Artist | Steve Yeowell |
| Collected editions | |
| Sebastian O | ISBN 1-4012-0337-X |
Sebastian O is acomic book series written byGrant Morrison, drawn bySteve Yeowell and published by theVertigo imprint ofDC Comics in1993.
Sebastian O was originally commissioned by editor Art Young forDisney's proposedTouchmark imprint, along withPeter Milligan andDuncan Fegredo'sEnigma andJ. M. DeMatteis &Paul Johnson'sMercy. After Disney cancelled the proposed line, Young took the project with him to DC Comics, whereKaren Berger's Vertigo imprint was readying for launch.[1]
Steve Yeowell took inspiration from Victorian artist anddandyAubrey Beardsley's work when completing the art for the series.
An example ofsteampunk,Sebastian O tells the story of a young flamboyant assassin in analternate and technologically advancedVictorian eraLondon and his attempts to track down Lord Theo Lavender who condemned him to prison for his moral crimes andtransgressive literature.
The world-traveling Sebastian belongs to the Club de Paradis Artificiel, which included thelesbian George, thepederast Abbe, and his betrayer Lavender. Despite being the central character, Sebastian is anarcissistic sociopath, at various points of the plot killing a police officer and having his remains fed to his cat, cutting off a prison warders hand to allow him to escape a palm-print cell, and cutting a man's throat whilst claiming "He's only stunned".
The series has been collected into atrade paperback: