Blacula Pins and Buttons
Description: This image was a weird ride. It started off as a color version of my earlier "splash page" piece, evolved into using those imges as a cover and then took a right turn into Doctor Doom territory. It was fun to use the more salacious elements of Blacula's marketing to make something garish ... but William Marshall deserves better. Marshall (and, by proxy, Prince Mamuwalde) had real gravitas, so I began to wonder what kind of stories about "Blacula" we might get with the world as a canvas. I also didn't want to lose sight of the fact that Mamuwalde had become a villain. So, this is what we get.
Description: By all rights, Blacula should have had a comic book series. Marvel would have had him crossing paths with the likes of Spider-Man, Luke Cage, Howard the Duck and, of course, Dracula. DC probably would have kept him to his own world, but might have hired the likes of Michael Kaluta or Jeff Jones to illustrate it. But that didn't happen, so I took the initiative. RIP Prince Mamuwalde.
