The story is an interesting and original take on the vampire formula as diseased vampires struggle to find a cure and are willing to do anything to see to it that their efforts yield some kind of result. This local comic is set in modern Johannesburg, with a collection of vampires suffering from an HIV-type disease, and early colonised Cape Town in which South Africa’s first vampire, Jan van Riebeeck, terrorizes the locals and enacts his own plans for the natives and the people under his settlement’s care.

Josh Ryba, the illustrator and co-writer of this South African vampire comic can be found sitting behind a stack of high detail fan art comic prints alongside a pile of the comics he co-wrote with Daniel Browde.

Mel Dixon, your friendly neighbourhood artist, can be seen swinging from the DeviantArt servers and smashing baddies at the Facebook, Twitter and Instagram factories. This talented artist also does custom orders and judging by her explanation that one particular picture took three weeks of work, I’m guessing that she puts the necessary effort in to produce such stunning pieces of art. Extremely intricate and mesmerising fan artwork isn’t exactly an uncommon sight to people (like myself) that spend obscene amounts of time online in search of such things, but the green-haired artist behind this table brought her amazing skills to life with some absolutely gorgeous works of art that sat before her and portrayed a variety of characters, such as Batman (or a far more dementedly appealing Joker) or Stitch (of Lilo and Stitch fame) or storm troopers (of Star Wars and not World War 2 fame).

Rebirth by Daniel Browde