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Skybound Announces Lineup for Halloween Eve’s Virtual Experience “Skybound Xpo: Halloween”
Today Skybound unveiled the lineup for Skybound Xpo: Halloween, a convention-like digital experience streaming on YouTube and Facebook on October 30, 2020.
“The year of SkyboundX continues! Join us on October 30th for a spooky Skybound Xpo: Halloween, where we’ll celebrate creators and projects from our past, present, and future. Get the latest across comics, TV, video games, books and more – and don’t forget your costume, we might be showing off some of the best!”
The lineup includes…
- The Walking Dead Reacts to Reacts: Actors and creatives behind the hit television series The Walking Dead react to fans, reacting to big moments from the show. Full circle!
- Queer Horror: A History of Fabulous Fright: Horror personality, filmmaker, and podcaster Michael Varrati pulls back the curtain and reveals why queer representation is at the very core of Hollywood horror. With special guests Nay Bever (Attack of the Queerwolf) and Dru Phillips (Sister Hyde Design).
- The Skybound Halloween 2020 Costume Xtravaganza: Throughout the Halloween-themed Xpo, costumes based on Skybound IP will be on display. Fans can show off their costumes on Twitter with #SkyboundHalloween for a chance to see themselves during the Xpo.
The full Skybound Xpo: Halloween schedule can be found HERE.
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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