Vampire loves

Vampire loves / Joann Sfar ; color by Audré Jardel ; translation by Alexis Siegel. – New York : First Second, c2006.
186 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
1st American edition
Originally published in France under the titles Grand Vampire, tome 1: Cupidon s'en fout (2001); Grand Vampire, tome 2: Mortelles en tête (2002); Grand Vampire, tome 3: Transatlantique en solitaire (2002); Grand Vampire, tome 4: Quai des brunes (2003) by Guy Delcourt Productions, Paris.
ISBN: 9781596430938 (pbk.)

1. Vampires – Comic books, strips, etc. 2. Supernatural – Comic books, strips, etc.

741.5944

Ferdinand the vampire has a very unfulfilling love life. This makes him a depressed vampire. He has an on again off again relationship with “Liana, but everyone calls her Lani [who] is a mandragora, a girl/plant. She was born under a hanging tree and her curse is that she drives men crazy.” The girls, disembodied spirits, vampires, and giant centipedes who are attracted to Ferdinand, he finds too aggressive and wild for his taste. Whenever he meets a girl—and they’re usually human—who reciprocates his affections some surreal change of plot parts them.

Jardel’s choice of colors playfully follow Sfar’s episodic plot lines, which wander from romantic encounters and complications to play with a jar of “Monster Putty,” to adventure and detective stories, and all this plays out in an environment of the supernatural. Through dialog and drawing human desires and frustrations are played out in a mirror of the fantastic with gentle humor.