![]() In the second Michael receives kung fu lessons from an eldritch instructor in hopes of ridding himself of a bully. In the first, lonely Little Vampire meets Michael after going to his school at night, sitting at his desk and doing his homework. Three episodes-two of which were originally published in English separately in 2003-feature the diminutive, grey-skinned bloodsucker, his human friend Michael and a haunted-houseful of spectacularly lurid ghouls and creepies. "He is very deliberately trying to have a kind of release for some of the dark things that children need to cope with as they grow up."įor full text of the article online click here "Joann is very much in tune with his own childhood, and it’s not a rose-colored glasses view," Siegel says. The stories do not shy away from serious topics such as death or religion-in one scene in Little Vampire Goes to School, Michael says that he doesn’t owe God anything, if He even exists, because his parents had died. ![]() The pair, as well as a varied cast of monsters, embarks on adventures that include learning martial arts to combat a bully and rescuing dogs being used for cosmetics tests. centers on the title character and an orphaned boy, Michael, whom Little Vampire befriends after doing the boy’s homework at night. ![]() Excerpt from "Little Vampire Rises Again" published February 28th 2008 in Publishers Weekly ![]()
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