Over the past two decades, I’ve become a huge fan of graphic novels but the one book that would forever be precious to me is the first graphic novel I’d bought, namely The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice.
Published by the now defunct company Innovation, The Vampire Lestat Graphic Novel to me had everything I was looking for in a good novel-to-comic book adaptation – faithfulness to the original, good editing and great art.
Faye Perozich did a great job of adapting the graphic novel by staying true to Anne Rice’s narration and dialogue. Editing
by David Campiti allowed for the few rewritten bits to flow fluidly so that the words complemented the images on the pages.
And then there’s the art. The lavishly painted pages are truly a feast for the eyes, with magnificent pastel colored locales and moody chiaroscuro images of vampires and their victims. One style that I really loved was the drawing and painting of the image directly on black background, so that you don’t know where the image ends and the background begins. I have yet to see this style done in the current ...
