Fan-favorite character Travis Kidd—the vampire hunter who likes to “bite them back”—makes his return in this new AMERICAN VAMPIRE one-shot! It’s a story burned deep into the American psyche: two young lovers, a stolen car and the open road. But these young lovers are newly turned vampires trying to fight the bloodsucking urge inside them. To make matters worse, they’ve got a pack of angry vampires on their tails—plus bad-ass vamp-killer Travis Kidd. He’s tracking the “Heartbreak Killers” across the heartland, but can he stop them before it all ends in tragedy? This one-shot special sets the stage for the AMERICAN VAMPIRE relaunch later this year!
Authors
Born in 1981, in Porto Alegre, south of Brazil, Rafael Albuquerque begun his professional career working for advertising, producing illustrations for local companies. The comic book interest, however, started in 2002, when he decided to work exclusively for the publishing market. Basically all of his portfolio was shown only at internet, and trough this media came his first comic book job. The Egyptian company AK Comics asked for some samples, and then he got his first gig overseas. Rafael´s colaboration (not only as artist, but sometimes as creator) was very important for the company. In 2005, with the writer Felipe Ferreira, has created the owner creator graphic novel Crimeland (first called Rumble in la Rambla), published in 2007 by Image Comics. For Boom! Studios has illustrated series like Savage Brothers (written by Andrew Cosby and Johanna Stokes), Pirate Tales (written by Chris Ward) and Jeremiah Harm (created by Keith Giffen and Alan Grant). Rafael has also colaborate in antologies like Tales of Fear Agent (with Ivan Brandon) for Dark Horse Comics, Wonderlost (written by C.B. Cebulski) and the Eisner Award nominated 24Seven - vol2. Nowdays Rafael is an exclusive artist from DC Comics, working in books like Blue Beetle (writtenby Keith Giffen, John Rogers and Matthew Struges), Robin (written by Chuck Dixon), Stanger Advetures (written by Jim Starlin) and Superman/Batman (written by Michael Green and Mike Johnson).
