Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones have launched a new graphic novel based on Bram Stocker’s Dracula. Dracula: Book One: The Impaler debuted on Kickstarter on October 24.Per ComicBook, Wagner and Jones launched the Kickstarter campaign for their first major collaboration with their new company, Orlok Press. According to Wagner and Kelley’s press release, the first book, The Impaler, “explores Dracula’s bloody history and tenure at Satan’s legendary seminary of the dark arts, the Scholomance.”Wagner, who famously created Grendel and Mage, confirmed the graphic novel explains Dracula’s origins while expressing his enthusiasm for the project. “The first graphic novel explores what led Dracula to seek out Satan’s tutelage and how he became the lord of the undead. This project is a real labor of love for Kelley and me. We are enormous fans of Dracula and the many interpretations of his mythic story,” he revealed in a statement. “Our version of Dracula is bloody, sexy, and monstrous; this is very much a horror story with deep roots in Stoker’s novel. But this isn’t yet another retelling of the novel in comic form. We’re bringing you the never-before-told stories behind the story and the sinister tales hidden in the shadows of the original novel.”RELATED: Stephen Graham Jones Discusses Crafting Modern Horror in True Believers
Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones have launched a new graphic novel based on Bram Stocker’s Dracula. Dracula: Book One: The Impaler debuted on Kickstarter on October 24.
Per ComicBook, Wagner and Jones launched the Kickstarter campaign for their first major collaboration with their new company, Orlok Press. According to Wagner and Kelley’s press release, the first book, The Impaler, “explores Dracula’s bloody history and tenure at Satan’s legendary seminary of the dark arts, the Scholomance.”
Wagner, who famously created Grendel and Mage, confirmed the graphic novel explains Dracula’s origins while expressing his enthusiasm for the project. “The first graphic novel explores what led Dracula to seek out Satan’s tutelage and how he became the lord of the undead. This project is a real labor of love for Kelley and me. We are enormous fans of Dracula and the many interpretations of his mythic story,” he revealed in a statement. “Our version of Dracula is bloody, sexy, and monstrous; this is very much a horror story with deep roots in Stoker’s novel. But this isn’t yet another retelling of the novel in comic form. We’re bringing you the never-before-told stories behind the story and the sinister tales hidden in the shadows of the original novel.”
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