"American Vampire, Volume 1" by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquereque, & Stephen King

This graphic novel covers two alternating stories.  Snyder writes about Pearl Jones, a bit player in movies in 1925 Hollywood looking for her big break.  She thinks she can find it at the home of a movie producer who is actually an old world, European vampire.  Although dumped in the desert and left for dead, she lives through the attack and is transformed into a new breed of vampire, an American vampire, one with extra long fangs and can live in the sun.

King writes the story of Skinner Sweet, a ruthless and evil gunslinger in 1880s Colorado who is transformed into this new American vampire after escaping from the law during a train derailment.  He is successfully buried before being awakened 29 years later and seeks revenge against his old lawmen captors and the European vampires who transformed him.

The drawings are the highlights of this book.  Rafael Albuquereque's art shocks and disturbs the reader not just by showing what the authors have described but adding details not told in words.  There's even a tiny allusion to King's bestselling novel "The Shining" in one of the panels.  I'm looking forward to seeing volume 2.  200 pages.