http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/09/21/the-illustrated-dracula/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Wed, 22 May 2013 20:47:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/09/21/the-illustrated-dracula/comment-page-1/#comment-79336 WhatAJoke Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:28:48 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/09/21/the-illustrated-dracula/#comment-79336 I didn’t know what to expect from an ‘Illustrated’ version of Dracula. Seems like a blatant way to make money out of a good story. What can you say about an illustrator that puts his own name at twice the size as Bram Stoker’s, and makes it stand out in red. The best thing Jae Lee did was not to change the original text. As far as the illustrations go, did Jae Lee actually read the book? If he did, he would have noticed that Dracula had a white mustache, thick eyebrows, sparse hair about the temples, but thick bushy hair up top. So why the bald guy on the front (who looks like a woman, by the way). This is just the start. Why the woman holding a baby – why the woman has a crucifix hanging from her lips (not placed on her lips) – neither happened in the text. Why do most of the female characters (not counting the front cover!)look Chinese? And why on the inside back cover is there an “AUTHOR photograph” of Jae Lee. Hey, maybe you’re taking just a little too much credit for this one, Jae.

]]> http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/09/21/the-illustrated-dracula/comment-page-1/#comment-42816 RedDeath Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:02:21 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/09/21/the-illustrated-dracula/#comment-42816 I totally agree; there are no where near enough images in the book to call it illustrated. I was very upset by this. However, the cover is shocking… More like Nosferatu than Dracula.

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