After recently relocated to downtown Decatur, Amy writes in with news that her husband, Van Jensen, has just released his first graphic novel, “Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer”!

Looks like Publishers Weekly is already a big fan…

…although he’s no Buffy Summers, as a vampire fighter Pinocchio has the advantage of a built-in wooden stake—as long as he remembers to tell lies at the right time. Jensen’s script is clever, full of irreverent irony. But the highlight of the book is Higgins’s b&w art that offers page after page of amazement. Swirling, whirling, jittery, skittery, the story dances gracefully from grin to grimace and back again.

How does one get a copy of this bloody work of art?  Stop by Little Shop of Stories this Friday for a book-signing at 4pm.  And if you can’t make it, I’m sure the Little Shop folks can get a copy in your hands some how.

According to his blog, Jensen is already working on a sequel.  Virginia may be for lovers, but with our recent penchant for zombies and other dark monsters, Decatur could easily adopt “Decatur is for the Undead”.