Fernando Fernández signs one of the great graphic reinterpretations of Drácula, a free adaptation that is at the same time faithful to Bram Stoker’s universe, turning the classic into a visually powerful experience.
Originally published in chapters in 1982 in the Spanish edition of the magazine Creepy, the work was recognized by readers as the best of its year and remains a reference for the ambition and uniqueness of its artistic proposal.
This commemorative edition, made from the originals preserved by the artist’s family, allows an exceptional fidelity to the chromatic intensity of pages conceived as true miniature oil paintings. The format also does justice to the detail and expressive power of each panel, and is completed with the inclusion for the first time of six pencil sketches recently found in the work’s archives.
Fernando Fernández himself explained that, in Drácula, he wanted to strictly adhere to Stoker’s text while also being faithful to the visual atmosphere of the era, using a painting style close to the sensibility of the late 19th century. The result is a work of extraordinary aesthetic coherence, capable of opening new perspectives on a myth that seemed definitively fixed in the collective imagination.
Reading this Drácula is not simply returning to Stoker, but discovering a new imagery for his most famous nightmare.
