Adedayo Adeoye Erivic is an award-winning Nigerian comic book artist and an Afro-centric comic book creator who began his professional journey in 2016 creating random comic book characters like Snooper, Quake master and more. Upon getting admitted into Nigeria’s premier university (University of Ibadan) in 2017, he started out as a cartoonist for his local press organisation (Indy Hall Press) and also his departmental press organisation (National Association of Philosophy Students Press Organisation).
He later got on the 32nd Editorial board of the Union of Campus Journalists (University of Ibadan chapter) where he officially became the cartoonist. After repeatedly being rejected by few Nigerian comic book studios he had applied to because his works
(in their own words) “weren’t up to par”, Erivic decided to make his own comic books. He created and co-founded MC Multiverse with few friends and in 2018, he released his debut comic book “The Advocate”; a comic book based on a student who fights petty crimes in the university environment.
During this period, he was hired by Comix Theory in India to be a part of the Ghost of India Anthology series. That same year, he founded Unibadan Comic Convention; Nigeria’s first campus comic convention, and garnered 150+ attendees. In 2019, he applied and joined Comic Republic where he started out as an intern and after a month, he left Comic Republic to refocus his energy on his own
studio.
In 2020, Erivic’s MC Multiverse joined forces with Inspiron studios to create Brown Roof Studios and he (Erivic) became co-founder and Managing Director. During his period as managing director, Brown Roof Studios experienced immense growth releasing two issues of their debut comic book Jakuta; a comic book title and franchise which he (Erivic) created. Upon release, Jakuta got wide readership and
recognition and this got him (Erivic) on several podcasts and platforms including First Comics News (Rich Interview) in America, The Colour of Motion podcast in Carlifornia, Comic Crusaders podcast in USA, Drew Vs The World podcast in California, CG Africa’s interview in Nigeria and more.
Also in 2020, Erivic started Comics Archive Africa; a platform for the promotion of independent African and black comics, games and animations and in just a year, the platform had promoted over 300 indie black and African studios and had become the platform with the largest collection of indie black and African comics garnering over 10,000 followers organically on Instagram. He also got to work with Cocoa Girl magazine and Cocoa Boy magazine; UK’s first magazine for black kids where he designed characters
like Ashanti and Tunde.
In 2022, Erivic left Brown Roof Studios to start We Are Erivic productions; a production studio that handles comic productions for clients at very affordable rate with zero stress and in a year of establishment, the studio has completed over a hundred pages of comic book projects for different clients working with reputable studios like Macroverse.
In 2023, Erivic launched the first edition of Comic Con Ibadan; the official geek event of West Africa’s third largest city celebrating African comics, games, animations and the nerd culture. The debut edition had over 1000 people in attendance with people coming from different parts of the country and from as far as Ghana. He has also established the yearly Comic Con Ibadan awards and the Erivic prize for best artist to consistently recognise those who contribute positively to the growth of the African creative space.
During his 7 years venture into comics, Erivic has gone ahead to win nominations, awards and recognitions such as Nominee: UCJ UI award for best cartoonist (2017), Winner: NAPS press award for best cartoonist (2017), nominee: UCJ UI award for best cartoonist (2018), Winner: NAPS press award for
best cartoonist (2018), Winner: Artivist Africa prize for best cartoonist (2019), Winner: UCJ UI award for best comic book artist (2019), Top 20 shortlist: VEXPO Africa art tournament, Ist runner up: Breeze Yoko digital art battle (South Africa) and more.
Presently, Erivic is working on his new project; Jogunomi where he’s exploring his newly developed visual storytelling pattern which he named Afroblot. He’s also working on building the African comic book space through comic conventions, masterclasses, awards and more.