page_title: Vampire: The Masquerade (Vault Comics publication)
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context_page_description: Vampire: The Masquerade is a monthly horror comic book published by Vault Comics since 2020. It is based on White Wolf Publishing's tabletop role-playing game of the same name, and is part of the larger World of Darkness series. The series is written by Tim Seeley, Tini Howard and Blake Howard, with art by Devmalya Pramanik, Nathan Gooden, David W. Mack and Aaron Campbell, coloring by Addison Duke, and lettering by AndWorld.
  The comic includes two connected stories, set in Minneapolis–Saint Paul in Minnesota: "Winter's Teeth", which follows the vampire enforcer Cecily Bain, who takes in the abandoned younger vampire Alejandra; and "The Anarch Tales", which follows a coterie of Anarch vampires, who are given the task to investigate a murder. The initial critical response was positive, particularly towards the artwork and coloring.
context_section_description: The comic book is published by Vault Comics, and is based on the tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade. The creative team includes writers Tim Seeley and husband-and-wife duo Blake and Tini Howard, artists Devmalya Pramanik, Nathan Gooden, David W. Mack and Aaron Campbell, colorist Addison Duke, and letterer AndWorld. Although they collaborate on the series, some of the team is split between the two stories: Seeley and Pramanik work on "Winter's Teeth", while the Howards and Gooden work on "The Anarch Tales"; the cover artworks are drawn by Gooden, Mack and Campbell. Several of them had worked together before on other comic projects, and Seeley contacted Tini because the two had previously worked on Hack/Slash together; she, in turn, reached out to Blake due to his experience with the tabletop role-playing game.
  The Howards wrote "The Anarch Tales" based on what they found the most interesting in Vampire: The Masquerade, and made for the most interesting stories – the mundane existence of vampires, with smaller-scale questions such as how a vampire mother cares for her human children, or how they pay the bills. They structured the story to have each chapter focus on one member of the coterie – how they became a vampire and how vampirism affects them – and showing how no two vampires have the same experience. Seeley wrote the characters in "Winter's Teeth" to be typical of their respective clans, while also feeling like individuals; he noted that he found the Camarilla structure more interesting than the clans.
  The comic book was announced by Vault Comics in March 2020, and premiered on August 5, 2020, being released on a monthly basis. The issues are also released with cover art variants by Mack, which in turn are printed in both full-color and "blood red" variants. Each issue also includes role-playing game materials based on elements from the comic, such as character sheets, for use with the fifth edition of the Vampire: The Masquerade tabletop game.
caption: The writing team includes Tim Seeley (pictured), Tini Howard, and Blake Howard.
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