pickDelicious. Psychedelic, spooky art style and palette, 1970s LA vibes, Dracula's brides coming out on top.*Chef's kiss* The parallel of Hollywood demanding, consuming, eternal youth and Dracula wanting the same of his brides, how one woman succumbs to the demands and others fight back against it, is an angle I never thought of and am so glad artists and writers of such talent decided to explore. 1/2
panI think horror and comics/graphic novels can be a match made in heaven, or more appropriately, a lush hell. Through the art and imagery, readers can be brought more deeply into a story. When done well, there‘s still an actual story/plot. Even better when there are defined characters, possibly with a few with depth. This has cool art but nothing else. I sat down just to start it, and it was all over in ten to fifteen disappointing minutes.
pick100% bought this book for the title. ❤️🔥
#LittensDressedInBlood Today's prompt is Vampire
This graphic novel is on my TBR pile for this month, so I'm hoping to get to it soon.
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Has anyone else started or planned their #Halloween reads? Starting the tagged book today! I might be slightly over ambitious with Carrion Comfort though! 🎃👻
"Ask any abuse survivor, you have to become a little bit of a monster yourself to escape it." - Alex de Campo, "On Monsters" ?
Ok, I debated if this is a spoiler and went with no since you have no idea what you're seeing and it doesn't give away a plot point. I want people to see the gorgeous art, but I hid my other posts in case people don't want to see entire two page spreads. @Clwojick
This art is gorgeous. Another quote from Alex de Campi's closing essay and one that really is the ethical heart of the book: "The Brides have always fascinated me, in a very different way than they could fascinate male writers, because I know them. They interest me in the way Melania Trump does, in the way Georgina Chapman Weinstein does. In the way that every woman, at least once in her life, wonders, "Could I just...?" @Clwojick
Later pop art style in the book with strong color story. Opening quote from the author's essay, "On Monsters," - "The petty hill I will die on is that Dracula should never be handsome. Oh, it's easier if he's pretty. Then it's love; these poor maids who are his victims take one look at his face and can't believe something so evil could look so nice.(...) It makes the storytelling easier. But I'm not in the business of ease." @Clwojick
Opening of Dracula Motherf**ker: "Vienna, 1889. A city in love with death. And Death was also in love with Vienna. But all things must end. Empires. Reigns. Marriages." Don't think this is a spoiler because it's in the first three pages @Clwojick because I know you wanted to see the art. :)
pick1970s neo-noir take on Dracula focusing on the brides. The essays at the end are worth the price of admission. But the art really steals the show. The opening pages are set in Vienna in the 1800s and are luscious like a Klimt painting while the majority of the book has the flat pop art sensibility of the 70s. The color is its own language. The story is simple yet interesting from an ethical perspective. TBR 16 pts #WinterGames2020 #MerryReaders
pickA gorgeous, short read. I mean- look at that COVER
It‘s simple, but the illustrations are perfect and I LOVE the design for Dracula as a formless hellbeast. My favorite read this October, hands down.
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Dracula, Motherf**cker | 
