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Artist Paints More “Final Girls vs Villains” Art Pieces
Dating back to nearly a year ago, we’ve been talking about artist Matthew Therrien’s “Final Girls & Cinema Survivors” art series, which sees the Canadian artist mash together horror’s most iconic final girls and the villains they were tough enough to survive. Therrien’s beautiful paintings, lush with color, literally put the villains and the final girls side-by-side, which makes for striking art pieces that highlight the beauty, brains and badassery of our favorite horror heroines.
Up to this point, we’ve shown off 9 pieces from the series including tributes to iconic survivors such as Laurie Strode, Nancy Thompson and Ellen Ripley, but we wanted to do an update now that a handful of new pieces have been added to the series. Therrien is now up to piece number 14 in the “Final Girls & Cinema Survivors” series, with the latest additions including Jess Bradford from Black Christmas, Stevie Wayne from The Fog, Lila Crane from Psycho, Trish Jarvis from Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter and even, though he’s obviously not a female, Mike from Phantasm.
Check out the entire series below and grab prints in Therrien’s shop!
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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