Submission from @baroquebat: 

So while snooping around online, I managed to find a Japanese edition of The Vampire Armand and I have never seen anyone post the cover art, which is just gorgeous to me!

There seems to be an alternative cover as well:

I found them on Amazon.co.jp, here are the links in case anyone is eager to import!

First Cover

Second cover 

Also there seems to be other titles of Anne Rice’s work also in a similar retro shoujo style if you look at her author page on Amazon.jp. It’s a shame that it’s only for the covers, I’d love to read an Armand manga in this style, why does only IWTV to get one, you know?


^Above covers and text submitted by @baroquebat, thank you, much appreciated! I had never seen these before, they’re lovely ❤

>I’d love to read an Armand manga in this style, why does only IWTV to get one, you know?

*nods* Me too! Of course we have our awful graphic novels of the 90′s but whatever…*

IWTV and TVL got the graphic novel treatment in the 90′s, I’m not sure how far up canon those went bc I didn’t really like them 😛 IWTV and TVL only, I think. It seems to me that the publishers are missing out on an incredible financial opportunity. I don’t know the backstory on how the IWTV graphic novel Claudia’s Story got made, but I would think that The Vampire Armand would have to go through a similar approval process.

We do have these, and CS is the best of them, IMO.

Claudia’s Story:

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IWTV:

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TVL:

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missjessereeves:

Lookie lookie what I just found

Ok but what I love about this is that the COVER of Lestat’s book, the COVER IMAGE, is him reading IWTV. That is no random paperback. The way that he’s holding it, too, is very Lestat. You can tell he’s thinking, “Well this is kind of how it happened, but overall HONESTLY Louis, I was not that big of a jerk to you and we’re gonna need to correct the record ASAP also my nails are nice.”

Comic Book Influence: The Vampire Lestat

sfuffaboutcomics:

perevision:

Yeah, you heard me. THIS was my first Anne Rice novel.

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I wasn’t allowed to read this book. I had to sneak into my uncle’s room when I was fourteen. From the cover I thought it was another grimdark comic about a tortured superhero (at this point I had read The Killing Joke, The Dark Phoenix Saga, several Wolverine titles and far too much Frank Miller), only this one happened to be a vampire.

What I got was this:

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Okay these are amazing, but also I love how 80s they are. ❤

If u haven’t seen these graphic novels of the VC, u truly must.

Comic Book Influence: The Vampire Lestat