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It's wonderfully eerie and something tells me I will lose my organs if I step inside. Great work! Coming across your stuff for the first time, looking forward to seeing more.
@tuile Thank you! While the world of Tiny Dracula is definitely filled with images suggestive of menace and horror (it's just so much fun to draw!), the story itself is much more concerned with melodrama and romance than violence.
A series that I think about a lot while working on Tiny Dracula, which had a huge impact on me as a teenager in the 90s, is David Lynch's Twin Peaks. A small town filled with a cast of quirky characters, romantic longing, gossip, conspiracy, and supernatural mystery.
@tuile As to how I stumbled onto Tiny Dracula — that was largely serendipitous. The idea itself sprang from a short series of humor comics I made back in 2022 for Inktober. Each comic pushed the premise further and I eventually realized that if I took the idea seriously, there was a very compelling story at the heart of Tiny Dracula that I was eager to tell.
However, I spent most of 2023 working on an entirely different script — but it just never came together. Tiny Dracula kinda wrote itself.
Nathan Olsen
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