El pequeño vampiro Fernand (que, en su versión adulta, nos conquistó en Vampir y L’Amour) y el incorregible y enamoradizo Miguel, trasunto del propio autor, protagonizan este reboot de una de las sagas infantiles más queridas y admiradas en todo el mundo. Dicho en román paladino, un reboot es una reescritura del origen del personaje, un volver a empezar, lo que, tratándose de Joann Sfar y de su Vampir, es decir magia. En esta vuelta de tuerca al personaje, el mejor narrador de Francia demuestra su extraordinaria inteligencia emocional para ponerse en la piel de los niños (un pellejo que, sospechamos, nunca ha abandonado) y darles lo que desean: humor, aventura, delirio, emoción y ternura, enmarcados en un argumento trepidante. Tras la publicación de Pequeño Vampir, el volumen que compiló siete primeros tomos de la serie, llega esta nueva y espectacular entrega, convertida recientemente en largometraje de animación bajo la dirección del propio Sfar. Con ustedes,, la gran novela gráfica contemporánea para lectores de todas las edades.
Joann 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.
No arriba al nivell del volum recopilatori anterior i en algun moment es nota que li falta l’aire en la distància llarga. Però, bah, ho dic per dir, manies de comparar i criticar. El petit Vampyr és una lectura que colpeja com un roc, tot fantàstic, delirant, romàntic i nocturn. Delicatessen per a lectors infantils.