By Zack Quaintance — Iron Circus Comics second-ever independent crowdfunding campaign is live now, and it’s a good one: it’s called Letters for Lucardo: The Silent Lord, and it’s by cartoonist Otava Heikkilä. It’s also an LGBTQ+ horror graphic novel that reached its $10,000 funding goal in its first week.

Today we are honored to have an exclusive quote about the book direct from Heikkilä…

Letters for Lucardo: The Silent Lord explores the aftermath of the immortal Lucardo attempting to save the life of Edmund, his mortal lover, by bringing him over to the cruel god-patriarch that watches over Lucardo’s family. After a rebirth of some kind, the couple are left with having to navigate the permanence of the hasty decision, while the tightly shut doors of the Night Court slowly open to let Edmund see the full extent of the chains that bind them.

You can check out some artwork from the new book below, after the jump…enjoy!

Letters for Lucardo: The Silent Lord

From the campaign page…When the aristocratic vampire Lucardo von Gishaupt, a royal member of the Court of Night, fell in love with a 61-year-old mortal named Edmund Fiedler, his passion grew to legendary proportions. Then, Lucardo’s staid, practical father intervened, driving Ed from the Court.

After a furious search, Lucardo has finally reunited with his aging lover… but is the end of their time together already at hand?

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.