Requiem Chevalier Vampire (French for Requiem Vampire Knight) was a Franco-British comic, published by Nickel Editions. It was translated in English and published by the magazine Heavy Metal in the USA. It was also translated in German and published in Germany by Kult Editions as Requiem Der Vampirritter.

The story was written by Pat Mills (best known for his work on Sláine, Charley's War and ABC Warriors) and the pictures were drawn by Olivier Ledroit (early volumes of the Black Moon Chronicles).

The comic was characterised by its extreme violence and each issue was more daring and darker than the previous one, sadomasochism was common in this comic and there were several scenes of violent sex. There was a lot of humour in this comic, although it was full of cynicism. Because of the financial weaknesses of Nickel issues had to be released every 8 months at first, with Requiem's successes more time was given to the artists to work. Originally a total of 12 issues were expected, with issues released roughly a year apart; however, the series has been on hiatus since issue 11, published in November 2012. In July 2016 Pat Mills announced that "the long-anticipated volume 12 is due for French publication at the end of 2017, and we are hoping for a same day, English language digital release. We'll then round off the series with volume 13 in the not too distant future."

To break into the French comic market was Pat Mills' dream – in order to do so he established his own comics publishing company in France, as Nickel Editions, with his associates Jacques Collin and Olivier Ledroit. Jacques Collin had previously founded the company Zenda Editions. Mills and Ledroit had previously worked together on Sha.

Requiem Chevalier Vampire was Nickel's first editing job on comics and found a comfortable success in France. Because Nickel Editions was founded for Requiem it was financially very fragile. Nickel did not even have a website for quite some time and employed no one but Mills, Ledroit and Collin. Ledroit did all the blueprints himself with his wife. Roughly 30,000 copies of each issue were published, allowing Nickel not only to survive but to enlarge, getting its own offices and internet website. More artists were recruited by Nickel such as Adrian Smith and Franck Tacito.

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