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Swamp Thing Water Vampire!

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Title:	Swamp Thing Water Vampire!
Artist:	Stephen Bissette (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Other
For Sale Status:	SOLD
Views:	2,542
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	10/29/2009
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This is a bloodsucker from Swamp Thing run -- specifically, one of the Rosewood, IL vampires Marty Pasko and Tom Yeates featured in their Saga of the Swamp Thing run (The Saga of the Swamp Thing #3: "A Town Has Turned to Blood") that Alan Moore resurrected for a 1985 two-parter in our later run (Swamp Thing #38: "An American Gothic: Still Waters" and #39: "An American Gothic: Fish Story").

FYI, Alan, John Totleben and I co-plotted that issue during Alan's one visit to Vermont in 1984; we cooked up the biology of the aquatic vampires (extrapolating from Richard Matheson's speculative vampire biology in his classic I Am Legend) while taking my daughter Maia Rose for a walk in the woods in Wilmington, VT. We walked around the Chimney Hill Development backroads as we did so, and I remember Maia gaily holding Alan's and my hand and swinging between us, going "wheeeeeeee!" as we worked all this crazy water vampire life cycle out!

Anyway, back to the sketch -- this original sketch measures 6 3/4" x 10 1/2", drawn with black pen, markers and white correctional pen on acid-free white board.

[NOTE: SOLD in MAY 2010 -- and to a GREAT new home!]

Water vampire created by Alan Moore, Stan Woch, SR Bissette and John Totleben, based on original characters and concepts by Marty Pasko and Tom Yeates, and is © and TM 1982, 1985, 2009 DC Comics Inc/DC Entertainment Inc.; artwork ©2009 Stephen R. Bissette, all rights reserved.

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Last Login:	May 2016
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Kevin Warzecha
Member Since 2006

Posted on 10/30/2009

Of the entire Moore run, this one really got to me. Incredible stuff!!

Stephen Bissette
Member Since 2009

Posted on 10/31/2009

Thanks, Kevin, and comments like this are much appreciated!

Sean Wasielewski
Member Since 2004

Posted on 11/24/2009

I agree with Kevin. The water vampires were truly frightening and that story will likely NEVER leave my brain. Thanks!

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