Gráinne: I started creating comics with my partner, Matt Rooke who wanted to get back into drawing a few years ago. Gráinne, can you give us a quick idea of who you are, what you’ve done? I’m having a lot of fun with my own James Bond parody comic and the Q-inspired element is one of my favourite parts so to get to play around with a crime-fighting inventor would be great. Gráinne: I haven’t read that much of the original stuff to be honest, but I love the idea of The House of Dolmann. With Rebellion having access to loads of classic Brit characters and strips, is there anything you’d love to bring back? Needless to say, as a complete unknown, I was blown away by the opportunity. Gráinne: I’m going to go with just being in the right place at the right time! Matt (my partner) and I attended quite a few comic conventions last year, and it was at MCM London, Keith Richardson was on the lookout for some fresh blood to contribute to the revamping of the title (am I using too many puns here? It’s entirely deliberate!) He picked up my existing titles – Bubbles O’Seven and Apes ’n’ Capes – and I guess he liked what he saw because he got in contact a few months later and asked me to write the Dracula reboot. How did you get involved with the Scream! and Misty Special? That’s really exciting, and I’m such a big lover of the Vampire trope, it would be amazing to be able to evolve the story. I’m actually obsessing a bit about where we could take Dracula if the reboot takes off and Tristan and I find ourselves working together again. You can find that out when you get hold of the special! There is interplay between the hunter and the hunted which provides the action, but I won’t say more on who his version of Van Helsing is. We learn of his past and that he has chosen this time to reveal himself and strike. Dracula is slowly reintroducing himself to London society after having been underground for many decades, waiting for his time to come again. Our story picks up from where he last disappeared and is set in here and now. There have been so many takes on the trope and to be given a chance to put my own spin on it was incredibly exciting. Gráinne: I read the original Dracula File and loved the idea of hauling the story into the 21st Century. Unsurprisingly, I’m stuck into the current Dynamite run on Bond, and I support as much independent stuff as I can.Ĭan you tell us a little about your strip, what you took from the original, what you might have added? I’ve only recently gotten into single/monthly issues. My comics epiphany came when I saw Watchmen at the cinema and I devoured a heap of graphic novels after that. Aesop’s Fables, Tales of Greek heroes and Irish mythology were my literature fodder at a young age. Gráinne: I’m an Irish lass and to be honest, comics weren’t really encouraged growing up so I missed out there. Were you aware of them at the time, or is this a completely new experience for you? The Scream! and Misty Special brings back some fantastic old favourites from British comics past. Stakes and garlic at the ready, Richard Bruton sat down for a chat with writer Gráinne McEntee, who gets to take a bite out of classic Scream! strip The Dracula File. Just in time for Halloween, the Scream! And Misty Special promises a chilling, thrilling set of comics reimagined for today from two of Britain’s finest frightfest comics.

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