American Vampire, a comic book come from the group formed by the writers Stephen King and Scott Snyder and artist Rafael Albuquerque (Superman, Batman). Posted by DC in USA, here was the Editorial Planeta responsible for collecting the first 5 numbers in a hardcover album. As King himself says in the preface, Snyder joined the project to return to his image vampires really wild and make people forget a little fussiness of Twilight, which has so damaged. The chapters are divided into two parts that are relevant. The first of these stories is signed by Snyder and is set in United States of years of the Great Depression, with the glamorous Jazz bottom where it shows the life of Pearl, an ambitious young actress who aspires to stardom and runs bars and dance halls in search of his Hollywood hit luck. But only finds a sinister fate when they cross paths with the protagonist of the second frame: the vampire Skinner Sweet. King is responsible for the screenplay of his birth, but 40 years earlier during which he has not aged, like any vampire. Sweet was a cowboy of the Wild West, bank robber and murderer with an aesthetic blend of Brad Pitt with a goatee and hairy version of Kurt Cobain, who when confronted with a European vampire was contaminated by his blood and it emerged first American vampire (typical American). That unlike traditional vampires need to transform overnight, it acts in broad daylight, which reveals what revitalizes and seeking revenge against them for having become what it is. I guess
King for the setting of the west also be based on the birth of the famous gunman Dark Tower, as it is style. On the other hand, the coloring Dave McCaig uses different techniques to tell a story of another, while for the period of 1920 using a more colorful picture, uses watercolor with brownish tones to represent the West in 1980. The undefined line may seem Albuquerque at first sight worse than it is, but eventually you realize it's really fit and plasma perfectly the spirit of what Snyder and King want to tell us.
