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The Original ‘It’ Cast is Reuniting at the Salem Horror Fest for Special Losers’ Club Panel
This year marks 30 years since the premiere of the original Tommy Lee Wallace-directed miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s It, and The Losers’ Club: A Stephen King Podcast is celebrating the anniversary with a very special panel at this Halloween’s Salem Horror Fest.
Announced by Michael Roffman over on Consequence of Sound this week, the kids from that original miniseries are getting together to “discuss stories from the set, the legacy of the miniseries, and growing up with Stephen King.” The panel is being co-hosted by John Campopiano (Pennywise: The Story of IT), and the following guests have been confirmed…
- Marlon Taylor (Mike Hanlon)
- Brandon Crane (Ben Hanscom)
- Ben Heller (Stanley Uris)
- Adam Faraizl (Eddie Kasprak)
- Emily Perkins (Beverly Marsh)
Tickets for this year’s all-virtual Salem Horror Fest (October 1-11) are available now.
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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