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Roguehill — Varney the Vampire Chapter 1.3
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This is a panel from my graphic adaptation of the original vampire novel..the penny dreadful called "Varney the Vampire, or the Feast of Blood"You can see the first chapter at www.feastofblood.com
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Not a good idea to get locked up with that guy. Awesome illustration.
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I'd probably try and read the novel collection if it wasn't as thick as a phone book. Wish it'd been abridged like other Penny Dread fulls. Look forward to seeing more.
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You have a serious point, my friend. I got about 3/4 of the way through before I had to take a break. I should get back to that soon.....
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Quiet well done, actually. The pose is very similar to the iconic woodcut image, though I appreciate that your interpretation of Varney is wearing period appropriate clothes instead of a toga, and that Flora actually looks horrified instead of swooning passively. Though I must agree that it does kind of look like he's trying to grope her.
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Thank you, Dryan!
I tried to be responsive to period clothes when representing Varney...though it's hard to say what has happened to him before the book starts. To be honest, I just thought that a tricorn with an older coat would be fitting.
It sure looked like he was groping her in the woodcut, so I made the decision to stay true to the representation. More visual cues of his desire to dominate Flora.
-Dave
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Definitely part of the appeal of Varney back in the day was the implications of illicit sexuality. Varney's late night assault of Flora was the stuff that nightmares and wet dreams were made of. One of my favorite woodcuts from Varney depicts a woman in a coffin with an oversized, phallic looking stake, larger than her head, drive through her chest. Be curios to see what your interpretation of some of the other classic woodcuts would look like.
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I remember that woodcut! Seeing something like that stays with you, that's for sure.
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