Interview with the Vampire: Claudia's Story

a beautifully illustrated graphic novel that brings a new perspective to the world of immortals and the dark gift. once again do the vampires of Anne Rice enchant a reader with a story of sorrow, sensuality and death. Lestat and Louis had their time, now Claudia has her chance. a pity it's a short one.

Anne Rice does it yet again.. Is there nothing that she cant do?? A re-telling of her classic book Interview with the Vampire through the eyes of the young looking, yet very old and very wise Claudia. The illustrations of this graphic novel are absolutely fabulous. I read this book in just a couple of hours and left me wanting more. I wonder what Anne has up her sleeve next.... Great job well done..

A book to add to my Anne Rice collection. Basically it is a comic book or now they call them Graphic novels. I don't really consider it an Anne Rice book after receiving it because the art work and adaptation is by Ashely Marie Witter not Anne Rice. It is about one of Anne Rice's characters Claudia. I guess I was expecting more of a novel with extra plate graphics with the text. This book would be more suitable to a young teenager who collected comics.

this book was a TOTAL disappointment. Not worth the purchase. It followed the story line with NO insights from Claudia's point of view. The art work was never captivating, very often the reader couldn't tell who was talking. I am surprised Ann Rice sanctioned such a pitiful offshoot of her provocative work

the drawings are simply perfect,exactly like I would had imagine it ,a mixture or american comic style with some manga influence done by a very feminine hand,I had seeing the other vampiric chronicles comics and ugh,ugly,ugly everywhere,a world of etheral beuty like this can't be given to just any comic artist out there,and I am happy to say this artist was the right one,I'm looking forward to finding more of her.
now for the script,well that was,althought not bad,a disappopintment,I was expecting to find lots of new scenes with claudia alone and there are almost none of that,it's mostlt what we had already seeing in the novel with one thought of her as company.

Wish I would have known or paid more attention to description that this book has no text, but is like a children's book so to speak with pictures. True fans of Anne Rice would enjoy, but otherwise, skip it.

If your in to comic books, then you will probably enjoy this book. I however, by my own fault, failed to notice it was a comic style book, and not a new novel actually written by Anne Rice. I was so excited to see she had a new book out about one of her vampires, that I failed to notice. So, I was very disappointed when it arrived yesterday, and I opened to dig in to a new Anne Rice story. The artwork is lovely, but I will be much more careful in the future.
S. R. Mackie

I like comic books. I've written comic books. What I didn't expect with this graphic novel is that it would be smaller than the average comic book. It is 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Graphic novels (Such as Superman Earth One) are 7 x 10 1/2. Thus the panels in Claudia's Story are rather tiny. This is bad enough, but you'd never know it was adapted from a novel because it is told almost entirely with dialogue. Maybe one every 2 or 3 pages there is a caption. This is a major flaw in all modern comic books. The fear of using descriptive captions to help enhance mood and setting. When Stephen King started writing an original vampire comic book for Marvel, his editor had to tell him, "We don't use captions any more." So a novelist was told not to use so many words even though that's what his readers buy his books to read. Without captions you lose the texture of the story and the atmosphere. Not everyone has such a short attention span that they want to read something quickly. Books used to be something you could sink yourself into and become lost in. Modern comic books, like the adaptation of Claudia's Story, seem to be aimed at people with a short attention span. I like to immerse myself in a book, not feel like I'm skimming it even while I'm reading every word.

I was very disappointed when this book arrive. I thought that this book was a FULL NOVEL written by Anne Rice like all her other books are done as. I expected it to be a full account story about Claudia's life before and after she became a Vampire told in her own words. Instead this book is nothing more than a comic strip rendering of Interview with the Vampire with Claudia in it with balloons with words in them above the drawn characters throughout the book. Bummer I wanted a full novel like Anne's other books.

The information on the book is misleading. It's a comic book not a novel. Terrible illustrations. Boring simplified story telling, just taking serious parts of the story re-wording it to a child's reading level. Waste of money even for a collector.

While I appreciate creativity, this is not what I have come to enjoy in an Anne Rice novel. The same dialogue as in Interview With A Vampire with a few extra sentences. If I had to make the choice again, I would not waste my money on this overpriced comic book.

Wow! What a disappointment. Maybe I missed it before I purchased it, but this is not at all what I was expecting. I was expecting this to be a look into Claudia's mind, not a bunch of excerpts from the original book and movie. This isn't even a book you can read! It's not even Claudia's story. It's a hard cover comic book with lines from the original book and the drawings have shades of Anime. What a waste!

This is a really beautiful adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, as told from the point-of-view of the immortal child, Claudia. The artwork is positively stunning - very beautifully drawn and colored, relying heavily on a sepia sort of tone that helps the vivid blood and fire really stand out. I'm very impressed by the art alone. The expressions and the sheer beauty of it would endear this book to me even if nothing else did.

I love that the storyline stays true to the novel, even taking exact lines and actions from it. I would have liked to see a little bit more that indicates that it's actually from Claudia's point of view - this doesn't really supply anything new and different than what we get in the original novel, which takes place in Louis's point of view. I rather expected to see some experiences that Claudia underwent on her own that went unbeknownst to Louis in the source material, but there were none. I'm also not sure that someone who has not read Interview with the Vampire would really be able to follow everything that's going on. Still, for a seasoned Anne Rice fan, this graphic novel is a fantastic addition to the bookshelf. I borrowed the copy I read, but I fully intend to add this to my personal library now.

Just got this book and i absolutly love Anne Rice!! This is a COMIC book with all picture's, story line ties in well and i have not gotten very far but it was not at all the novel i was expecting, it is a COMIC. If you are looking for another true vampire chronicle this is NOT it, I was a little dissapointed when i recieved it and starting flipping thru the book i am a big fan but this was not what i thought i was getting into. Just as warning to others with the same expectations of Anne Rice. After reading this book entirely i was even more disappointed!! I was expecting a little extra insight from Claudia and her side of the story and it was a total let down it was almost word for word the portions of interview where she was present and did not offer anything at all new to the story line. BIG LET DOWN ANNE RICE!!!!!!!! Don't buy unless you just want a comic version of what you have read already. I almost wish i didn't get this book.

From it's announcement I thought Anne had written a new book and was excited; kinda wondered what else could be said about her? But I fell for it. NOT a new Anne Rice book, a fancy comic book of the story in the old book. I'm surprised Anne let her name go on it!

Probably just the $, will make me be a *bit* more cautious next time a "new" Anne Rice book appears.

For timid writers of the new generation not yet inducted into the dark gift of the Vampire Chronicles, this graphic novel may be the best introduction. The illustrations are at times morbid but always elegant, the characters beautifully drawn and not based on Tom Cruise, Stuart Townsend or Brad Pitt, thankfully. It's also great to read before (re-)reading the Vampire Chronicles, particularly Interview with the Vampire, if you wanted an image of these magnetic yet terrifying creatures in your head. Ashley Marie Witter captures the monster and the angel in Claudia, and the eyes burn with life.

I especially love the frame when Lestat says, "Remember, Claudia, eternal life is useless to us if we do not see the beauty around us. The creation of mortals everywhere, the paintings, poetry, music."

Also Louis's tortured face when he admits, "You're the only companion I have in immortality." It brought me to tears.

As no human actor can ever be as lovely as Anne Rice's vampires (although I loved Kirsten Dunst, Tom Cruise, Stuart Townsend, and Brad Pitt), these illustrations bring out the beauty in these characters, making them almost human, but never shying away from the monsters that they are, lips bathed in their victims' blood, fangs bared.

The back of the book describes Claudia as "the vampire who never should have been, her very existence an abomination among the creatures of the night...a predator's lust imprisoned in the body of a child." Well, Claudia is my favorite vampire. The very vampire that is the opposite of Louis, the most human of them. Claudia taught Louis, "Let the flesh instruct the mind."

You also see New Orleans in 1700s, dark and foreboding, and you understand why it was these vampires' favorite haunt.

Claudia's voice is distinct from Louis's in Interview with the Vampire, and from Lestat's in The Vampire Lestat (and subsequent Vampire Chronicles). I almost wish it can be turned into an animated movie, in the exact same style and sweeping storytelling so that the plot moves from beat to beat like a panicked heart. The art appears as if drawn from charcoal, and the paper made to look weathered with the nostalgia of sepia, punctured only here and there by a deep gush of blood red...these images evoke the eternal night the vampires are consigned to. Of course, nothing can replace the full experience reading of the novel from which it is based.

Claudia asks the question we all must answer at least once in our mortal lives: Love? What do you mean by love?