Bram Stoker's Dracula by Fernando Fernandez
Requirements: CBR Reader, 87 MB.
Overview: An award-winning Spanish artist offers a chilling, full-color rendition of Stoker's classic horror novel about the rampage of master vampire Dracula.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
See also the sequel here: From The Pages of Bram Stoker's Dracula: Harker GN
Also by Fernando Fernandez:
Download Instructions:
http://novafile.com/zmzr331u0pdq -- Bram Stoker's Dracula by Fernando Fernandez (2005)
Requirements: CBR Reader, 87 MB.
Overview: An award-winning Spanish artist offers a chilling, full-color rendition of Stoker's classic horror novel about the rampage of master vampire Dracula.
- "A superb rendition and interpretation of this classic horror.
One of the final artistic work by Mr. Fernandez before he left the comic field in 1990s to focus exclusively on paintings." A Kid's Review
Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Fernando Fernandez art, write
Published by Del Rey, April 26th 2005.
- In 1462, Vlad Dracula, a member of the Order of the Dragon, returns from a victory against the Turks to find his wife, Elisabeta, has committed suicide after receiving a false report of his death. Enraged at the notion of his wife being damned for committing suicide, Dracula desecrates his chapel and renounces God, declaring that he will rise from the grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the powers of darkness.
In 1897, newly-qualified solicitor Jonathan Harker takes the Transylvanian Count Dracula as a client from his colleague R. M. Renfield, who has gone insane. Jonathan travels to Transylvania to arrange Dracula's real estate acquisition in London, including Carfax Abbey. Jonathan meets Dracula, who discovers a picture of Harker's fiancée, Mina, and believes that she is the reincarnation of Elisabeta. Dracula leaves Jonathan to be seduced by his brides and sails to England with boxes of his native soil, taking up residence at Carfax Abbey. His arrival is foretold by the ravings of Renfield, now an inmate in Dr. Jack Seward's neighboring insane asylum.
In London, Dracula emerges as a wolf-like creature amid a fierce thunderstorm and hypnotically seduces, then rapes and bites Lucy Westenra, with whom Mina is staying while Jonathan is in Transylvania. Lucy's deteriorating health and behavioral changes prompts Lucy's former suitors Quincey Morris and Dr. Seward, along with her fiancée, Arthur Holmwood, to summon Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, who recognizes Lucy as the victim of a vampire. Dracula, appearing young and handsome during daylight, meets and charms Mina. When Mina receives word from Jonathan, who has escaped the castle and recovered at a convent, she travels to Romania to marry him. In his fury, Dracula transforms Lucy into a vampire. Van Helsing, Holmwood, Seward and Morris kill Lucy.
After Jonathan and Mina return to London, Jonathan and Van Helsing lead the others to Carfax Abbey, where they destroy the Count's boxes of soil. Dracula enters the asylum, where he kills Renfield for warning Mina of his presence before visiting Mina, who is staying in Seward's quarters while the others hunt Dracula. He confesses that he murdered Lucy and has been terrorizing Mina's friends, but a confused and angry Mina admits that she still loves him and remembers her previous life as Elisabeta. At her insistence, Dracula begins transforming her into a vampire. The hunters burst into the bedroom, with Dracula claiming Mina as his bride before escaping. As Mina begins changing, Van Helsing hypnotizes her and learns via her connection with Dracula that he is sailing home in his last remaining box. The hunters depart for Varna to intercept him, but Dracula reads Mina's mind and evades them. The hunters split up, with Van Helsing and Mina traveling to the Borgo Pass and the castle, while the others try to stop the Gypsies transporting the Count.
At night, Van Helsing and Mina are approached by Dracula's brides. They frighten Mina at first, but she gives into their chanting and attempts to seduce Van Helsing. Before Mina can feed on his blood, Van Helsing places a communion wafer upon her forehead, leaving a mark. He surrounds them with a ring of fire to protect them from the brides, then infiltrates the castle and decapitates them the following morning. As sunset approaches, Dracula's carriage arrives at the castle, pursued by the hunters. A fight between the hunters and gypsies ensues, and at sunset Dracula bursts from his coffin. Harker slits his throat while a wounded Morris stabs him in the heart with a Bowie knife. As Dracula staggers, Mina rushes to his defense. Holmwood tries to attack but Van Helsing and Harker allow her to retreat with the Count. Morris dies, surrounded by his friends.
In the chapel where he renounced God, Dracula lies dying in an ancient demonic form. He asks Mina to give him peace. They share a kiss as the candles adorning the chapel light up, and Mina shoves the knife through Dracula's heart. The mark on her forehead disappears as Dracula's curse is lifted. She decapitates him, and finally gazes up at the fresco of Vlad and Elisabeta ascending to Heaven together.
- Great Classic Amazing paintings that dont quite play along, Reviewed by Cool Guy on June 20, 2011.
- I always wanted to read this great classic and what better way to start than in a graphic novel format; the pictures were all greatly done, kind of reminds me of great paintings in the art museum. The story itself is amazing the romance, intrigue, suspense, tension all well worked with characters that play there part in setting all those emotions together a true master piece that not only elevates the vampire genre but also was an inspiration to a number of similar works. I just come to know that these pictures were all done by a great comic book artist and this was probably his last work in graphic novel format, while the pictures were great they were quite different to the regular graphic novel theme that we were all familiar also they seem not play along with the story when it comes to adding to the suspense and the tension that would have added to the classic. Over all a good read.
Beautiful retelling in Comic Book Format***Loved it, Reviewed by Read! Knowledge is power (Bergen, NJ) on September 7, 2008.
- As a long-time fan of the Bram Stoker/horror genre, I was a bit skeptical that this was yet another retelling of this long-loved story. I was pleasantly surprised at the format (have never seen this story in such format) which seems Comic-book/frames. The glossy pages with beautifully rendered artwork makes this one of the favorite gifts I have received in a long time. Happy to have it in my collection.
About Fernando Fernandez:
- Fernández was born in Barcelona in 1940. In 1956 Fernández joined the well known Spanish agency Selecciones Illustradas, at the age of 16. From 1958 through 1964 Fernandez worked on war comics (including Air Ace and War Picture Library) and romance comics (including Valentine, Roxy and Marilyn) for British publishers. He also painted covers for paperbacks and picture libraries like Commando and Chiller. Fernández left the comics industry for a period of time in the 1960s, returning in 1970. He drew the strip Mosca from 1970 to 1973.
Fernández started working for Warren Publishing in 1973 due to his connections with Selecciones Illustradas. Unlike many of the Spanish artists from S.I., Fernández both wrote and drew his stories. During his period with Warren from 1973 to 1975 a total of 11 of these stories were made, all of which were published in Vampirella (issues 28–32, 35–6, 40–3). The story Rendezvous (issue 35) was included in a list of the top 25 Warren stories of all time in the book The Warren Companion by author David A. Roach. Fernandez won a Warren Award in 1975 for Best Artist/Writer on the story Goodbye My Love, Goodbye (issue 41). An additional story written by Fernandez, but drawn by Jose Miralles appeared in issue 57 of Vampirella in 1977. Warren would later reprint three additional Fernandez stories originally done in Spain in Eerie in 1978 (issue 94), 1980 (issue 117) and 1981 (issue 118).
After Warren, Fernández worked on French educational comics for Afha as well as the Cuando el Comic es Arte series for Jose Toutain. He also worked on the series Circulos in 1979 and Zora y los Hibernautas in 1980, which would later be reprinted in the U.S. in the magazine Heavy Metal. In 1982 he drew the comic version of Bram Stoker's Dracula for the Spanish edition of Creepy. He adapted Isaac Asimov stories in 1983 for the book Firmado por: Isaac Asimov, and collaborated with Carlos Trillo to create the medieval fantasy La Leyenda de las Cuatro Sombras for Zona 84.
He would later adapt Asimov again with Lucky Star in 1989. Fernández eventually left the comics field in the 1990s to focus exclusively on painting.
- Fernando Fernandez Died on 9 August 2010 (aged 70) in Barcelona, Spain. RIP.
See also the sequel here: From The Pages of Bram Stoker's Dracula: Harker GN
Also by Fernando Fernandez:
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