Win a copy of AMERICAN VAMPIRE #1 signed by co-author Scott Snyder today on Twitter.

Go to Vertigo_Comics on Twitter.

Answer this question on the Vertigo Twitter page: What vampire movie is at the top of Scott Snyder’s list of favorites?

(Hint: check out Graphic Content’s 3/16 post.)

The first 15 eligible entrants with the correct answer will win.

Check out the Official Rules below.

Good Luck!

AMERICAN VAMPIRE #1 Signed Copy Twitter Contest Official Rules

1. ENTRY: No purchase necessary to enter or win. To enter the contest, you must be among the first 15 people to tweet to @VERTIGO_COMICS the correct answer to the question posted via the VERTIGO COMICS Twitter feed to @VERTIGO_COMICS that day. DC COMICS will release a question at 12:30pm EST on 3/26. You may participate in the daily question and respond as often as you like.

2. ELIGIBILITY: Employees and contractors (and their families) of DC COMICS or any of its affiliates are not eligible. Must be 18 year of age or older and a resident of the United States or Canada. Void in Quebec and where prohibited by law.

3. PRIZE: 15 prizes (one per winner) will be given out. Prizes will consist of a copy of AMERICAN VAMPIRE #1 signed by creator and co-author Scott Snyder. Prize selection is at the discretion of the DC COMICS team.

4. WINNER SELECTION: The first 15 people to answer the question posted on the VERTIGO COMICS Twitter feed and tweet the answer to @VERTIGO_COMICS will win one of that day's 15 signed copies of AMERICAN VAMPIRE #1 signed by creator and co-author Scott Snyder.

5. WINNER NOTIFICATION: Each day’s winners will be notified directly via direct message on Twitter. The winners are required to contact DC Comics via email (the address will be sent via direct message) to provide contact information (full name, email address and mailing address). Each winner has until midnight EST the following business day to claim his/her prize; if the prize goes unclaimed, an alternate winner will be selected.

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That’s right, you read the headline correctly. Today’s your chance to talk comics with Jim Lee and some of the biggest names in the industry: Where? Twitter. When? Tonight at 9pm EST/6pm PST.

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So, pick up a copy of AMERICAN VAMPIRE #1 and devour it, if you haven’t already, so you can join in on the discussion. Then start following Jim (@jimlee00), and Vertigo_Comics. If you don’t have a Twitter account, signing up is easy. The rest is even easier: have fun, talk comics, vampires, the wild West, the roaring 20s, Skinner, Pearl, Jim’s variant cover to issue #1, and most of all enjoy!

Be there: Tonight at 9pm EST/6pm PST.

And if you can’t make it right on time, click on the hashtag “#DCreader” to catch up on the discussion!

Today, I’m excited to reveal a 3 page preview (from Pearl's story written by Scott Snyder) from AMERICAN VAMPIRE #1 and a piece by Scott Snyder on his Favorite Vampires.

If you've seen the pages that were posted on THE DAILY BEAST yesterday, the guy hanging by the pool just might look familiar. But isn't it the 1920's?

Now, like I said yesterday, don’t walk. Run to pick up a copy tomorrow. In the meantime, find out a bit more about creator and co-author Scott Snyder and his favorite vampires.

Scott Snyder on his favorite vampires:

It's funny, when I got the question - who are your top 7 favorite vampires? - I started to list my favorite vampire movies. And if I had to make that list, it would look something like this:

Near Dark
Lost Boys
Salem's Lot
Fright Night
Nosferatu
Let the Right One In
Dracula (both the original and the Bram and the Coppola one for its crazy excess)
30 Days of Night as a bonus

I was about to send the list over, when I realized that the question was favorite vampires. Not vampire movies. So I started thinking, and I realized that basically all my favorite vampires come from the top few movies on the list. Ralphie Glick floating outside his brother's window, scratching at the window, grinning. Lance Henrickson as Jesse Hooker - who answers the question: How old are you? with the line: I fought for the South. Bill Paxton is maybe my favorite of all time, Severen, who's about to bite a biker and says: I hate it when they ain't been shaved. And the vampire women - secret crushes of my youth - Jami Gertz as Star, and Jenny Wright as the entrancing Mae.

When I think about it, these are my favorites, the vampires from Near Dark, Lost Boys and Salem's Lot, and the reason - I think - is that they represented something new and newly scary when I was a kid. They weren't the old vampires with slicked back hair and accents shuffling around castles on clifftops in some far away land. They were vampires re-imagined as scary and modern things. Young, sexy, sociopathic, sometimes conflicted, sometimes evil, always so real. In Salem's lot, the people you know are turned into the evil undead - your neighbors, your brother, your girlfriend... Barlow is very scary, don't get me wrong, with that Nosferatu mug - but even scarier is your best friend knocking at your window, come to kill you. The vamps in Lost Boys were cool to me when I was a kid (mullets and all, I admit it) - they were modern and bad-ass and I wanted to be like them. And Near Dark (probably the biggest influence on AMERICAN VAMPIRE) features vampires that are like modern-day serial killers, terrifying drifters that could show up at your door at any moment in that blacked out Winnibego.

Basically, I guess my favorite vampires are the ones that actually seemed like they might walk the landscape I lived in, when I was a kid. Vampires that were homegrown, part of the community, the neighborhood, the American landscape. And in a big way, this is what we're trying to do with AMERICAN VAMPIRE; we're trying to make the scariest, coolest, most bad-ass vampires to date by offering up a brand new species of the things. A species that lives in your town, your city, walks by day (doesn't wear leather pants or turtlenecks or black trenchcoats or crouch brooding on gargoyles over the rain-soaked city). A stronger, meaner species that stalks every decade of modern American history. Hope you enjoy.

AMERICAN VAMPIRE is about to be unleashed on March 17. Before you pick it up, get to know about author Scott Snyder’s love of scary stories and his collaboration with Stephen King and artist Rafael Albuquerque. Read his On the Ledge here.