Dracula’s Last Stand
Alex Hinders, 2013.
Colored pencil and pen.
This drawing represents the final battle in the original book against Dracula. Dracula, of course, is the one in purple. That’s Mina Harker on the bottom-left corner, and her husband Jonathon Harker is the man in the blue suit. Jonathon was actually a lawyer sent to discuss real estate with the count — but he soon learned the horrors of his ‘client’. He ends up joining the fight against Dracula — after he escapes from the count’s castle — and the fight is made even more personal when Dracula puts a curse on Mina.
The man in red is Quincey Morriss and he’s an American cowboy/explorer. Yeah, there was a cowboy in Dracula; a lot of people don’t know or forget that. I was quite amused at this and chose him as a subject of a short paper when I was an undergrad. My thesis compared the mystique of the wild, wild west to the book’s vision of Trannsylvania — basically, they were places that weren’t well known and were full of danger. Quincey Morriss’ ruggedness and expertise were needed to give their group more of a fighting chance in the battle against the most famous vampire.
Morriss also dies in the final battle. That kind of sucks. But makes sense for his character.