In honor of Halloween, cartoonist Kate Beaton read Dracula and made a series of comics about the classic vampire novel. In a series of strips gets at the book's true face of horror: sexually-liberated women.
Beaton is primarily known for her historical comics, but lately she's turned her attention toward classic literature. And this week, she decided to read Dracula, which inspired this tweet:
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Which, in turn, prepared us for this:
She has plenty more strips about Bram Stoker's cursed count and the befuddled Brits he encounters over at Hark, a Vagrant. Just be prepared for steamy Victorian collar bones.
Dracula [Hark, a Vagrant]