John Blanche

Someone calls him fat.

In terms of artwork for 40K by the great and powerful John Blanche, if we look at image number one, that is a standard, in quotes, navigator within the kind of 40K grim, dark, gothic nature.

A lot of sources disagree on where the Navigator gene first appeared.

It places it somewhere in humanity's technological expansion.

The succession is therefore an imperial transport crisis.

everything effectively grinds to a halt while the kind of dynastic struggle resolves itself.

Another piece of artwork by John Blanche, and then we'll get to your question, Ben.

Image 10, this is a representation of the navigator Paternova.

You

could tell it's in the same vein as John Blanche.

Yeah, I don't think it's unfair to say that Brahm made Dark Sun's entire visual language in a way that Tony Deidre Lizzie made Planescape.

A thousand percent.

And he gets to about the 26-yard line and is brought down right there by the middle of that Southern California line with Cowlings and Terry, the two tackles.

And now John Blanche is coming in there.

Bill Hayhoe was also in on the tackle.

So, Terry and Hayhoe win.

O'Brien could have thrown, but he couldn't get anybody open.

So he ran with the football and was dropped for a loss on the 31.

John Blanche goes out.

They keep

Because if it's a grinning, toothy moon, then we've probably walked into some Warhammer variant.

Ah, the John Blanche alien.

It turns out that the alien is actually the shield.

It's a parasite.

They released that, you know, tape trading days, kinda make a splash in the scene, and then ultimately they actually got an offer from two different labels, and that's gonna be Earache Records who they ended up going with, but Warhammer, the GW Records, reached out to them and they basically tried to do this deal where, um, essentially they had this, this art editor.

His name was John Blanche.

This was in 1987.

Um, he had already had a single from a band called Sabbat.

Yeah.

Dream team of Jez and John Blanche shot that one.

There

is, funny enough, a Necromunda character who has that kind of flattened sort of disc shaped hat, helmet or whatever it is that you could possibly convert into that.

And Amy.

hello so first as jf mentioned uh just today actually the great john blanche passed away at age 77

yeah raise your raise your frosty cold glass of null oil and uh toast a real one i'm like bummed man i just backed the kickstarter Which, I mean, it's fine.

His work is done, but it's still, like, a bummer.

I mean, White Dwarf had a series of articles called Blanchetsu, right? So you know how big of an effect you have when they name articles about converting miniatures and painting in a certain style after

you.

Everyone, whether they know it or not, has in their mind an image of Warhammer 40k and it's something that John Blanche did.

I mean, the picture of the emperor.