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| The cover for Letters for Lucardo |
The only letter we see is in the very beginning, and
quickly crumpled up. Our first impressions are formed through intimate words
and trembling hands. It isn’t until the second panel of the seventh page that
we are introduced to Lucardo, and from the perspective of the so-far anonymous
letter writer. That person is Ed Fiedler, a scribe for a family of vampires. Anne
Rice is typically credited with making vampires sexy, but writer and artist
Noora Heikkilä builds on a foundation going back to Bram Stoker’s original
epistolary format.
