Peanuts meet Dracula

A couple years back, a talented one-time collaborator of mine named Adam Rex came out with a children’s book of humorous poems about monsters, called Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich. I meant to blog about that here not only because the book was very funny (which it was) but because when illustrating a story about the son of dracula going to the dentist, Adam clearly designed his characters as a parody of the Peanuts gang.

Somehow, I never got around to that blog entry, but my failure doesn’t seem to have held the book back; it hit the New York Times best-seller list.

I ran into Adam at BookExpo America last week, and was lucky enough to glom a copy of the upcoming sequel, Frankenstein Takes the Cake. Good stuff, of course. And he revisits Dracula Jr., and this time the visuals are a parody of a Peanuts Sunday strip.

Dracula Jr. from Frankenstein Takes the Cake

(By the way, that link up there for the first book? It’s to remaindered copies a mere $5.99 apiece. A recommended bargain.)

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