Dracula and Frankenstein are rival kings in the webcomicUltrasylvania

Webcomics have provide a fertile training earth for neophyte cartoonist . Over the years , I ’ve watched a number of artists go from toddling sketchers to masterfully sequential art storytellers . So it ’s only natural that professors would look to webcomics as a training tool for students interested in careers in cartooning .

That ’s what makesUltrasylvaniasuch an intriguing undertaking . Students in the Comic Collaborative year at the Academy of Art University take turns exemplify this alternate universe narrative of conversant horror role , in which Dracula , Frankenstein ’s monstrosity , and a certain ancient Egyptian prevail their corners of the world amidst political intrigue , espionage , and questionable romanticistic interludes .

Co - creators Jeremy Saliba and Brian Schirmer are the artwork conductor and author of Ultrasylvania respectively . The other pages of the comedian assure the understudy floor of Dracula and Frankenstein ’s demon ( who has title himself as Victor Frankenstein ) . These freak do not shack in the darkness , but instead openly reign as the supernatural leader of their own land , incurring the care and esteem of their citizens .

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Dracula has invited the Englishman Jonathan Harker to publish his biography , giving the alien unprecedented access to the histories and horror of Castle Dracula . Harker has brought with him a untried woman , Mina Murray , whom he claims is his fiancee . But it quickly becomes absolved that Murray ’s reason for visiting the vampire go far beyond keeping Mr. Harker party .

Fifty years earlier , an injured charwoman named Ileana is brought to Castle Frankenstein , claiming that she watched Dracula massacre her total small town . Frankenstein freely grant her his protection , and her story of Dracula entrench into his territory boost him to make his preparations for war . But is he overly swayed by his growing fondness of Ileana ?

And what , even further in the yesteryear , did Napoleon ’s power reveal in Egypt ?

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Ultrasylvania is an educational undertaking , with unlike artist taking on the comedian for a few page at a sentence before turning it over to a schoolmate . The account ( if you’re able to keep raceway of the engagement ) is light enough that these chemise in dash are n’t overly jarring , but there are some artists whose body of work proves a better lucifer for Schirmer ’s tale . Richard Healy ’s dark and bleed watercolors capture the mood of Castle Dracula , and neatly set up the mysteries both of Dracula ’s past and Mina Murray ’s lawful intentions . Jonathan Aguillon ’s clear black lines and unnatural coloring palette , meanwhile , are perfect for the less morose and more narrative plot of Frankenstein and Ileana . And Valerio Fabbretti ’s detailed realism add together an exciting feeling of threat to the opening page , and pull in me eager to see the story return to Egypt .

If you ’re succeed over by Ultrasylvania , the group currently has aKickstarter campaignrunning to print the first 75 pages . The Kickstarter Sir Frederick Handley Page also tease some of the upcoming pages and artwork , which promises more of this monstrous story of Europe , along with some possibly fierce skirmish between its supernatural heads of body politic .

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