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A Look at AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and “Fear the Walking Dead” #SDCC Panels!
AMC shambled into the San Diego Comic-Con with trailer premieres for both “The Walking Dead” and the new spinoff, “Fear the Walking Dead,” both arriving this fall.
As part of the presentations, AMC has panels for both series, talking about everyone’s favorite undead series.
Below we have two tastes directly from the Con, one in which Norman Reedus discusses how he gets into the character of Daryl in “The Walking Dead,” while the other has the creators of “Fear the Walking Dead” describe how the cultural diversity of LA plays a huge role in the show.
For the trailers, click here for “The Walking Dead’s” sixth season footage, while clicking here drops the first ever look at “Fear the Walking Dead”!
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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