No one on the internet knows how Shaw! came up with the idea for a vampire duck yet, but it's fascinating to think that after reading Howard the Duck (it seems likely he was a fan), he said to himself: "Yes, an anthropomorphic duck is good, but the world needs a bloodthirsty duck, a duck who dreams of murder."Īnd he was right. In the Quack! Anthology, Shaw!'s "Duckula!" featured a vampire duck with fangs, a little cape, and a bear friend, Bearzanboltz.
Shaw! got his start writing for Gory Stories Quarterly, a '70s comedic, horror-suspense comic book (Robert Crumb is among its contributors) that published off-beat ideas, such as a story about a monster-turd. The first issue featured a one-page comic about a Dracula duck by Scott Shaw! Yes, Scott Shaw!'s moniker includes the exclamation mark after his name, which makes me wonder if the exclamation mark was an inside joke between artists because "Duckula!" and "Quack!" have an exclamation mark as well. So, Quack! was formed to host extra material from Friedrich and other writers. Quack! was a comic book anthology series created by writer and publisher Mike Friedrich after Frank Brunner (known for his work in Eerie, Creepy, and Marvel Comics) had a duck story he couldn't place with Marvel's Howard the Duck. But the first and most well-known depiction of a vampire duck (in mortal history) can be traced to Scott Shaw!, who created "Duckula!" in 1976 for the first edition of the comic book Quack! Tracing the first vampire duck is troublesome, for its history, like many historical events, is shadowed in legend and myth.
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