Thursday, October 19, 2017

Letters for Lucardo


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.