While artistic Shansters often draw individual pictures of Darren Shan and (especially) Mr Crepsley, they also quite often frame the two of them together, since they were such a closeknit team in the books. Here are four such drawings, and I love the extremely different takes -- it shows how every reader pictures the characters in their own unique way, which I've often said is the reason that books are still going strong in this multi-media age. Movies, TV shows, comics, video games... they're all great story-telling mediums, but in all of them, viewers see the exact same thing, whereas if a book has a million different readers, it will be imagined inside their heads in a million different ways. Reading a book is a truly unique, personal experience, which is why I don't think books are ever likely to go out of fashion. Technology is cool, but words... words rule!!!

Kendra.

Keroromo.

Milo and Katrina.

Sidorothy.

The Shanville Monthly always paints a frightfully freaky picture of all the latest Darren Shan news and updates! The June issue contains info about my new Archibald Lox series, plus a whole lot more. https://www.darrenshan.com/news/shanville-monthly/