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Oct. 25th, 2010 | 09:43 pm




I love it when Halloween comes around and I get to make comics for it! Here we have Bram Stoker's Dracula, a book written to tell ladies that if you're not a submissive waif, society goes to hell and ungodly monsters are going to turn you into child killing horrors and someone is going to drive a bowie knife through your heart/cut off your head/etc. As you deserve! Thanks Bram! I wrote it down so as to remember it.

But don't get me wrong, I prefer my vampires to be moustachioed 1890s types more than the sexy kind you see nowadays. Maybe Carmilla was sexy, I forget. Anyway.

By the way, have you ever read Dracula? It's a very good read, you may be surprised.

The Store is actually starting to update with new material bit by bit, there are several shirts and mugs coming in, plus the onesie I mentioned! But in the meantime, there are always prints available, which I keep not mentioning but let me tell you, it's true.

And I have two interviews to tell you about, done with two very lovely and informed people! It was a pleasure. Here they are:

The first is the podcast Comics News Insider with Joe Gonzalez and Jimmy Aquino, I was there for their 300th episode and they had some great guests!

the second is a long interview with Laura Hudson of Comics Alliance. I'm told it's interesting to read, so, phew. I don't want to bore you.

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strangemuses

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from: strangemuses
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:46 am (UTC)
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Turnips! hahahahaha!

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adam-0oo

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from: adam_0oo
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:46 am (UTC)
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Your Comics Alliance interview was great, you really explained your attitude and experience with comics and your fans really well.

Also, never stop drawing people dancing.


Please.

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Victorion

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from: victorion
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 11:31 am (UTC)
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agreed! the single ladies dance is beautifully hilarious!

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Because there's something wrong with me!

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from: batchix
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:46 am (UTC)
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I found dracula to be kind of dry. I had better luck with the Phantom of the Opera. In the original version it seems like Christine actually has a bit more back bone... Erik is a bit MORE of an asshole... but Raoul is still a douche.

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Skazka

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from: supercrook
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:50 am (UTC)
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Raoul is more of a douche in the novel, I found, but I still preferred him to Captain Blow-Your-Shit-Up. Christine DEFINITELY has a different personality than most adaptations give her in the novel, though, but I wouldn't know too well quite why -- I haven't owned a copy of that book in ages. And you remind me why I want to. ;_;

I really liked Dracula a lot, but then again, I love SLIGHTLY TROUBLING VICTORIAN THINGS.

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Skazka

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from: supercrook
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:48 am (UTC)
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Yes, yes, yes! I was waiting for the day this comic would come, your sheer awesomeness couldn't possibly let us down.

These are all HYSTERICAL, as usual, and left me cackling embarrassingly loudly. The Brides especially (OH NOES! NOT THE NEW WOMEN!) as well as SINISTER TURNIP GARDENS. You never know. They might be... you know, foreign turnips. Not our sort.

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Presenting Online Personality - Mister Peabody

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from: vodkabeforenoon
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:51 am (UTC)
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The Horror of The New Woman made me laugh out loud.

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Leslie Newcombe

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from: ext_298488
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:51 am (UTC)
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OMG FIRST POST.
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Sorry, that wasn't very productive. Relevant anecdote: I tended to avoid reading classic literature wherever possible, so I didn't read Dracula until after our eponymous high-school play inspired me. I was a little bit disappointed to find that the Van Helsing in the original was not female (apparently the playwright of our version wanted to add sexual tension?)

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Leslie Newcombe

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from: ext_298488
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:53 am (UTC)
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Aw man, it seems I was a tad late. 7 is a better number, anyway. :D

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Lady Uranus

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from: ladyuranus
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:52 am (UTC)
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I was ashamed at my lack of "classics" knowledge, so I read Dracula a few months ago. It is a bit dry and goes on a good extra 50 pages too long, but it is also still very consumable for modern readers. (The Keanu Reeves movie, however, is not.)

These were hilarious! I love that Lucy dances to "Single Ladies."

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Skazka

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from: supercrook
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:53 am (UTC)
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Ew, Keanu Reeves. The worst part is, I'm actually kind of... an enormous Jonathan fan (even though he is the quintessential Victorian English male and a bit of a goober) and that casting nearly turned me right off of him.

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Hark!  A Vagrant

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from: beatonna
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:57 am (UTC)
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i do!

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Woodiness T. Scatological

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from: mr_sadhead
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:53 am (UTC)
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Let's hear it for Jess Franco's "Dracula" with Christopher Lee, then. Dracstache!

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The Empress of Ice Cream

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from: icecreamempress
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:56 am (UTC)
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Carmilla was indeed super-sexy.

But not as sexy as DecoyWanton!Minna in the last comeek.

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Katherine

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from: buriramtourakom
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 07:06 am (UTC)
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And not JUST super-sexy... but super-LESBIAN-sexy. The scandal!

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neekaneeks

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from: neekaneeks
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:57 am (UTC)
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Now I can't help but sing All my single Lucy's... All my single Lucy's.

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Morbid Curiosity

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from: morbid_curious
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 05:55 am (UTC)
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If you liked it then you should have put a bite in it?

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glorious_clio

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from: glorious_clio
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:58 am (UTC)
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You are such a comedic genius. Thanks so much for these!

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mike_myhre

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from: mike_myhre
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 01:59 am (UTC)
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You sure know how to bring the funny!

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Hark!  A Vagrant

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from: beatonna
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:00 am (UTC)
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it comes after many hours of despair, that's the trick

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the ali

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from: singingraisin
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:05 am (UTC)
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I'm currently rereading Dracula, and these comics are AMAZING. I like the book quite a bit, but there is definitely lots of room for hilarity. (The 1992 movie version, for example.)

And I will certainly take my vampires hairy and scary. At least scary. Non of this angsty romantic hero crap for me, thank you!

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Petratishkovna

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from: retsuko
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:07 am (UTC)
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I love Dracula recoiling from the turnip! These made my day. :)

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Zart

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from: purplezart
date: Oct. 27th, 2010 08:18 am (UTC)
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if super mario bros 2 taught us anything, it is that roots and tubers are our greatest weapon against evil.

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aylaelphaba

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from: aylaelphaba
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:08 am (UTC)
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All the single ladies! All the single ladies! XD XD XD

I love Halloween.

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Stormdancer

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from: stoda
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:12 am (UTC)
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This whole strip was awesome, but that last panel gave me a terrible case of the lols!

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West Country Girl

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from: parachles
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:14 am (UTC)
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I've been seeing a lot of hate for the '92 movie... and I agree that it was pretty damned bad.

However, if given the choice between Gary Oldman sucking my blood vs Robert Pattinson I'd take Oldman.

I'd even take Oldman over Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt... and Interview With a Vampire was pretty hawt! ;)

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Skazka

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from: supercrook
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:58 am (UTC)
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Man, Oldman does look good in that movie. (Except as old Dracula, not with the Gaga-bow/ass cheeks hair. Obviously.) I love it for the costumes, though.

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anodyna

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from: anodyna
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:15 am (UTC)
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Oh, this brings back such great memories of gothic lit class! A genre that's all about the Anxiety of the Imperialist Patriarchs over the womens, the foreigners and the sex. Whee!

(Carmilla is v. sexy also, though when you consider that in the text she's constantly being conflated with the narrator's creepy, possibly rapey father, not so much.)

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from: ekstrapiksels
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:18 am (UTC)
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i didn't really die until i got to the one about lucy

and now i am undead from laughter tyvm

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Jokingly Jade

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from: jade_sabre_301
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:18 am (UTC)
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my friend was just complaining about how women never get to have adventures in fin de siecle literature--thanks for providing the comic[al] explanation!

:-D

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tingirl

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from: tingirl
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:30 am (UTC)
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I rather thought part of the point of the book was that men should listen to women, since about ALL of the trouble could have been avoided if anyone had paid attention to the peasant women/Lucy/Mina?

Also, that Texans will kill even things that cannot die. Yay, crazy regional stereotypes!

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Lance Bauer

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from: marurun
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:46 am (UTC)
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I thought it taught that women rambled entirely too much when writing in their journals. Seriously, Lucy is attacked in her room, her mother dies from fright, the maids have passed out from drinking liquor that had been spiked, and here is Lucy writing a novel in her journal instead of looking for a weapon or trying to hide herself. I've let other people read that part and they say she must be blonde. :D

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John "The Gneech" Robey

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from: the_gneech
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:34 am (UTC)
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What, no comment on the fact that Dracula totally invented the pornstashe? :D

Great work as always. :)

-The Gneech

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Queen of Nowhere

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from: lissa_quon
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 05:00 am (UTC)
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off topic - Icon love

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Katie

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from: katiefoolery
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:36 am (UTC)
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They caught a lot of trains in Dracula, I remember that. And noted down many, many recipes.

I am quite enamoured of the turnips in Drac's box of earth. I hope there were pansies or snapdragons or something planted in some of the others.

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Everything is copacetic twixt, you and I...

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from: bowtomecha
date: Oct. 26th, 2010 02:38 am (UTC)
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hissss.


turnips. hahaha.


you really know how to draw creepy strange guys leering through windows.

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