LUGOSI'S LIFE CHRONICLED IN A NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL

Releasing later this month is what promises to be an interesting take on Bela Lugosi's life in graphic novel form. Published by Humanoids and written and drawn by Koren Shadmi, the story focuses on Lugosi's last days, but is interspersed with flashback to his past.

Available through comic shops and online at sites like AMAZON.

From the publisher:

LUGOSI
The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Dracula - Softcover Trade
Story and Art by Koren Shadmi
Scheduled Release Date: September 28, 2021

160 pages - Duotone

7.6 x 10.2 in

Price:

$24.99 - £19.99 - Can$33.99

A biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi.
LUGOSI, the tragic life story of one of horror’s most iconic film stars, tells of a young Hungarian activist forced to flee his homeland after the failed Communist revolution in 1919. Reinventing himself in the U.S., first on stage and then in movies, he landed the unforgettable role of Count Dracula in what would become a series of classic feature films. From that point forward, Lugosi’s stardom would be assured...but with international fame came setbacks and addictions that gradually whittled his reputation from icon to has-been. LUGOSI details the actor’s fall from grace and an enduring legacy that continues to this day.

From Publisher's Weekly:

Shadmi (The Twilight Man) delivers a poignant graphic biography of horror star Bela Lugosi (1882–1956) that depicts the Dracula actor’s real-life and on-screen personas with equal aplomb. Interspersing Lugosi’s dying days of morphine-induced hallucinations (colored in sepiatone) with black-and-white flashbacks, the brisk history narrates his rise to silver screen success, his extravagant lifestyle, self-delusions, and (many) marriages and divorces against Hollywood’s evolution from the silent era to the glut and decline of horror pictures. Shadmi’s artwork flows in uncomplicated but immensely expressive lines. Cartoon caricatures of figures including Boris Karloff, James Whale, and Tor Johnson are instantly recognizable, while Lugosi’s vampiric glare hits appropriately chilling, with detailed scene-work conveying the moody atmosphere of films such as Dracula or White Zombie. Both humorous and heartbreaking, Lugosi’s final screen appearance in Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space closes the book with a triumphant curtain call: “Perhaps I am... immortal,” Lugosi muses. Shadmi smoothly blends characterization with chiaroscuro to perfectly spotlight Lugosi’s uncanny magnetism. On the screen—and in this fine portrait—his legacy lasts.