Dracula, Motherf**ker

by Alex de Campi, Erica Henderson (Artist)

Overview

Vienna, 1889: Dracula's brides nail him to the bottom of his coffin. Los Angeles, 1974: an ageing starlet decides to raise the stakes. Crime scene photographer Quincy Harker is the only man who knows it happened, but will anyone believe him before he gets his own chalk outline? And are Dracula's three brides there to help him... or use him as bait? A pulpy, pulse-pounding graphic novel of California psych-horror from acclaimed creators ALEX DE CAMPI and ERICA HENDERSON.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534317000
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	10/13/2020
Pages:	72
Sales rank:	401,284
Product dimensions:	10.50(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Alex de Campi writes comics. She is best known for her critically-acclaimed teen survival thriller NO MERCY and the groundbreaking, digital-native comic VALENTINE. Her bestselling, criticially-acclaimed comics and graphic novels TWISTED ROMANCE with various artists, MAYDAY with Tony Parker, NO MERCY with Carla Speed McNeil, DRACULA MOTHERF**KER and PARASOCIAL with Erica Henderson, BAD KARMA with Ryan Howe, and SCRAPPER with Cliff Bleszinski and Sandy Jarrell are all published by Image Comics. She was nominated for an Eisner for her first comic work, Smoke, and it's all been downhill from there. Alex also directs music videos, and has worked with acts as diverse as Grand Duchy (Frank Black / Violet Clark), Joan As Police Woman, and Amanda Palmer to the retro-fabulous Puppini Sisters.

Alex's background is a three-whisky conversation and involves several continents. She is a single mother of an awesome daughter; they live in the Stephen Kingdom (Downeast Maine) with two dogs. She has an opinion on nearly everything. You can peruse them, along with stupid photos and memes, at @alexdecampi on most social media.

Editorial Reviews

08/24/2020

De Campi (Bad Girls) applies the edgy, genre film approach of her Grindhouse series as she ingeniously drops Bram Stoker’s marquee monster into a pulpy 1970s L.A., mixing up crime noir, blaxploitation, and anime influences. In Vienna, 1889, a trio of femme fatales tire of their bloodsucker husband and nail him inside a coffin. Stoker’s Dracula is replaced by Henderson with a hideous beastlike phantom, who awakens when a fading starlet cracks his coffin at a groovy ’70s féte. Quincy Harker is reimagined as a Black crime scene photographer selling salacious pics to sleazy tabloids in the City of Angels, and she comes within a fang’s bite of becoming another Renfield before being rescued by one of the nameless undead Brides. Harker and the trio bond to take on the prince of darkness in an orgy of transmogrific mayhem. Henderson (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series) displays an acrobatic visual vocabulary, with elastic facial expressions and spectacular creature effects. The slim volume packs in action, avoids exposition, and lets the art carry characterizations rather than rely on dialogue dumps. This feminist-friendly evolution of the Brides of Dracula mashes up pop culture and classic references from a comics maverick to offer dizzy, delicious fun for horror fans. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"The slim volume packs in action, avoids exposition, and lets the art carry characterizations rather than rely on dialogue dumps. This feminist-friendly evolution of the Brides of Dracula mashes up pop culture and classic references from a comics maverick to offer dizzy, delicious fun for horror fans." —Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

11/06/2020

In 1974, neon-drenched Los Angeles, fashionable movie star Bebe Beauland reaches a new level of immortality when she removes the wooden spikes that have bound Dracula in his coffin for 85 years. The carnage left behind from Dracula's gory resurrection feast attracts journalistic nightcrawler Quincy Harker. His photographer's lens captures the horrors of the crime scene but also draws him deeper into the unnatural world of Dracula's brides. After the crafty vampire trio correctly deduced how Dracula drained and maintained power, they stalked, slashed, and staked him into his coffin for eternity, or so they thought. Using tricks learned under his leathery wings, they have established their own undead self-sufficient sovereignty, but their fanged progenitor's reemergence is the ultimate threat to their continued existence and cannot be ignored. VERDICT Amazing neonoir expressionistic art by Henderson (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) is fatally drained of lifeblood by the hackneyed narrative of de Campi (Archie vs. Predator). Stories crafted as delivery systems for topical social sermons leave no room for verisimilitude, just a screed's empty echo. —Douglas Rednour, Georgia State Univ. Libs., Atlanta

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