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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Dark Shadows: The Night Whispers




The Night Whispers is an audio play written by Stuart Manning for Big Finish Productions Dark Shadows audio range. The play itself marks the final appearance of Jonathan Frid in the role of Barnabas Collins before his death in 2012.

Frid had been reluctant for many years to reprise the role he first made famous in 1966. Many of his fellow cast mates had appeared in Big Finish's audio adaptation of the television series. Frid finally came back to the role in 2010 alongside John Karlen as Willie Loomis for Manning's play THE NIGHT WHISPERS.

Frid's voice had aged a great deal when he took on the role again, but it sounded absolutely perfect for the story. You got the impression of an older graver Barnabas Collins. Long since freed from the vampire curse and living the remainder of his unnaturally long life in the Old House.

Stuart gave me permission to adapt a few of his marvelous play into comic book pages. You can see a few of the finished pages above.

Although, I didn't make Barnabas appear "older" because the opening dialogue mentioned him being "unchanged".

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Kind words from the Collinsport Historical Society


The Collinsport Historical Society had some very kind things to say about say about some pages I did as a submission to Dynamite Entertainment for their ongoing Dark Shadows comic book series. You can read their blog here:
 
 
As I've stated in the past, I'd jump at the chance of doing an issue or twelve or a one-shot graphic novel of Dark Shadows for them ;-)
 


Friday, June 29, 2012

Dark Shadows Proposal for Dynamite

I just completed a few Dark Shadows sample pages for a submissions I'm preparing to send out to Dynamite Entertaiment.

Dynamite has a really great roster of titles and the cult classic gothic soap Dark Shadows is one of them. Although I am aware Dynamite's portrayal of Barnabas Collins is his much later incarnation which he is cured of his vampirism I'm just more fascinated by the dynamics of his earlier Dracula/Renfield redux relationship between himself and Willie Loomis.

And being a fan of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, I decided to render the pages in sepia tones.

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