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Grand Vampire #1-4
Vampir
Fernand es un vampiro enamoradizo que solo muerde con un colmillo, para evitar dejar demasiadas marcas en sus (consentidas) víctimas. Fernand es un poco ridículo cuando vuela y su problema no son los cazadores de vampiros, sino acabar de aclarar sus ideas para decidirse por alguna de las muchas muchachas con las que no puede evitar flirtear. Y conseguir, claro, que el amor le sea correspondido. Este libro es un bestiario amoroso: los motores que mueven a los vampiros, hombres árbol, golems y brujas novatas que pueblan sus páginas no son el terror y la venganza, sino la pasión y la búsqueda de la propia identidad. Amparado en un argumento romántico y humorístico que tiene más que ver con su propia vida y su familia, el autor desarrolla un relato que es a la vez comedia de situación y fábula universal, abordando temas como el amor y la pérdida, el deseo y la sensualidad, en una narración de largo aliento cargada de humanidad y que conecta con el público de toda edad y condición. Lo hace con ayuda de su dibujo orgánico, apremiante y vivo, heredero de otros grandes como Sempé y Quentin Blake, y lo hace además gracias a la naturalidad aparentemente improvisada de sus chispeantes diálogos.
Este primer volumen integral agrupa los cuatro primeros tomos de la serie, de la cual solo se habían publicado en España los dos primeros libros de siete y cuya edición estadounidense entró en la lista de best-sellers de The New York Times. El universo de este serie es uno de los más ricos de todos los creados por el autor que en esta serie ha volcado a la mayoría de sus creaciones sobrenaturales y a personajes provenientes de otras series, como el profesor Bell.
Este primer volumen integral agrupa los cuatro primeros tomos de la serie, de la cual solo se habían publicado en España los dos primeros libros de siete y cuya edición estadounidense entró en la lista de best-sellers de The New York Times. El universo de este serie es uno de los más ricos de todos los creados por el autor que en esta serie ha volcado a la mayoría de sus creaciones sobrenaturales y a personajes provenientes de otras series, como el profesor Bell.
216 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2002
About the author
Joann Sfar
498 books512 followersJoann Sfar (born August 28, 1971 in Nice) is a French comics artist, comic book creator, and film director.
Sfar is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded in 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu and six other artists. He also worked together with many of the new movement's main artists, e.g. David B. and Lewis Trondheim. The Donjon series which he created with Trondheim has a cult following in many countries.
Some of his comics are inspired by his Jewish heritage as the son of Jewish parents (an Ashkenazi mother and a Sephardic father). He himself says that there is Ashkenazi humor in his Professeur Bell series (loosely based on Joseph Bell), whereas Le chat du rabbin is clearly inspired by his Sephardic side. Les olives noires is a series about a Jewish child in Israel at the time of Jesus. Like Le chat du rabbin, the series contains a lot of historical and theological information.
His main influences are Fred and André Franquin as well as Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, Will Eisner, Hugo Pratt and John Buscema.
From 2009 to 2010, Sfar wrote and directed 'Serge Gainsbourgh: Une Vie Heroique', a biopic of the notorious French songwriter, of whom Sfar is a self-confessed fanatic. The film, which draws substantially on Sfar's abilities as a comic book artist through its extensive use of fantasy artwork, animation and puppetry, was released in 2010 to general critical acclaim.
Sfar is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded in 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu and six other artists. He also worked together with many of the new movement's main artists, e.g. David B. and Lewis Trondheim. The Donjon series which he created with Trondheim has a cult following in many countries.
Some of his comics are inspired by his Jewish heritage as the son of Jewish parents (an Ashkenazi mother and a Sephardic father). He himself says that there is Ashkenazi humor in his Professeur Bell series (loosely based on Joseph Bell), whereas Le chat du rabbin is clearly inspired by his Sephardic side. Les olives noires is a series about a Jewish child in Israel at the time of Jesus. Like Le chat du rabbin, the series contains a lot of historical and theological information.
His main influences are Fred and André Franquin as well as Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, Will Eisner, Hugo Pratt and John Buscema.
From 2009 to 2010, Sfar wrote and directed 'Serge Gainsbourgh: Une Vie Heroique', a biopic of the notorious French songwriter, of whom Sfar is a self-confessed fanatic. The film, which draws substantially on Sfar's abilities as a comic book artist through its extensive use of fantasy artwork, animation and puppetry, was released in 2010 to general critical acclaim.
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