Image Comic's Dear Dracula Becomes An Animated Feature This October

Image Comics is animated once again.

This October, a critically acclaimed Image Comics/Shadowline book will make the leap to the small screen. Like the amazing Firebreather, which was also animated and aired on Cartoon Network, Dear Dracula ill be hitting the airwaves in time for the Halloween season. Check out the official word from Image below:

DEAR DRACULA, a graphic novel for kids published by the Image Comics imprint Shadowline, has been adapted into an animated feature for Cartoon Network. The hour-long feature will air on October 16 at 7 p.m. (ET, PT) as part of Cartoon Network’s “Spooky Specials” Halloween programming.

A scarily sweet story of a young boy named Sam who loves horror films and vampires so much that he writes to Dracula for Christmas instead of Santa Claus, DEAR DRACULA was written by Joshua Williamson and drawn by Vicente “Vinny” Navarrete. Sam gets an unexpected reply to his letter when Dracula himself shows up on his doorstep, ready to make Sam’s dream of being a vampire come true.

Giving voice to DEAR DRACULA is a cast of well-known Hollywood veterans as well as breakout young actors:

Ray Liotta as Dracula
Nathan Gamble (Dolphin Tale) as Sam
Ariel Winters (Modern Family) as Emma
Emilio Estevez as Renfield
Marion Ross (Happy Days) as Grandma

The DEAR DRACULA animated feature is produced by Kickstart Productions (Voltron Force, Wolverine and the X-Men, The Amazing Screw-On Head), with a screenplay by Brad Birch (Johnny Test).

DEAR DRACULA by Joshua Williamson and Vicente “Vinny” Navarete is a 48-page, full-color hardcover graphic novel for $7.99. Its ISBN is 978-1-58240-970-2. It was released in 2008 and received glowing reviews: