https://mindworkgames.net/collections/books/products/john-blanche-voodoo-forest

A 96 page artbook covering a range of black and white works of art by John Blanche (who has done many bits of work for Warhammer over the years). There's a flip through video below which shows the general content and what you get, whilst the website above lists that the first edition is limited to 2K copies and at only £25 (though its around £9 for postage as the firm producing them is in Italy).

Figured some here would be fans of his work and this is one book that likely won't get highlighted by GW, so worth a look!

I dunno, I kind of want it, but it's his GW sci-fi stuff that's iconic. This looks like some Ian Miller lite.

96 pages - but each left side page is mostly blank, white space, lacking even commentary. Bah.

Why can't GW just give us a POD for Ratspike?

Compare this to the last time Black Library tried to get people to re-mortgage their homes for a copy of the Eldar Sketchbook

Just for info,

This has got nothing to do with Black Library or GW. This book is a collection of John’s personal work.

I have a copy and it’s absolutely beautiful, but I am a big fan. If you don’t like his style, you’re not going to like this book.

I like my copy, but I'm a bit of a fan.

I am eagerly awaiting my copy.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I like my copy, but I'm a bit of a fan.

You're missing an Inquisitor Sketchbook!

...and the red edition of Voodoo Forest.

 Shakalooloo wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I like my copy, but I'm a bit of a fan.

You're missing an Inquisitor Sketchbook!

Good point, it was with the oversized books.

Corrected copy attached.



+ The 40k playing cards

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Corrected copy attached.

Spoiler:

+ The 40k playing cards

Phew, you had me worried for a moment.

Good stuff, will have to add this to the shopping list.

Bought one. Thanks for flagging this up Overread.

This is getting me inspired, would be people be interested in a Retro Review of one of the Blanche books?

Maybe the Tolkien one?

Go for it! We don't get enough talk of art here (probably cause every time GW puts an art book up its gone within a week or two )

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
This is getting me inspired, would be people be interested in a Retro Review of one of the Blanche books?

Maybe the Tolkien one?

Yes! I've never seen that one. Would love to find out all about it.

Another release on this line; Scions of Voodoo.

https://mindworkgames.net/products/john-blanche-scions-of-voodoo?omnisendContactID=6601dae55221b45e7499b565&utm_campaign=campaign%3A+Booster+of%3A+Scions+1+%286627e74cd9e54c4659cffcaa%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=omnisend

£43 after delivery???

No ta!

That's odd; mine came up as £40?

Apple Pay was probably responsible. Still too much for me.

Yeah I think that it might be for me also. I enjoyed Voodoo Forest, but I think that £40 might be more than I'd part with for another instalment.

It shocks me how private postage has gone up so much between the USA and UK and yet you've the likes of Amazon just sending stuff all over the place with apparently zero cost over their regular distribution.

£40 is more than reasonable for an art book; but yeah these are not huge books in pages nor page size and £40 starts to become a big cost; esp when the postage is 50% of the cost of the book .

Even Amazon have increase their costs, you now need to spend over £20 for free delivery (or £10 on books) when it used to be £10 (or £5 on books) and they're much more heavy handed in trying to trick you into signing up for prime even when you don't want it

I bought the first book, voodoo forest but don't remember paying that much in postage, £14 is a bit steep for a book of this price.

They are a reseller, so they gotta get their nut. Cheaper to just get it from the publisher.

https://hollow-press.net/products/scions-of-voodoo

Yes, go to the publisher please and check out the rest of their range! I only got the second book and it's lovely, but well, if you don't like his art, it can be a bit of a miss for most folks. Still need to pick up the first book one of these days, as they do make for great additions for my personal collection.

 Overread wrote:

£40 is more than reasonable for an art book; but yeah these are not huge books in pages nor page size and £40 starts to become a big cost; esp when the postage is 50% of the cost of the book .

Yeah that's the crux, it's rightly priced at around £25; I wouldn't blink at that; it's a shame that the postage is so high. The art books where I've spent upwards of that sort of price are generally either a significantly larger portfolio, more commentary from the artist or history/biography if deceased, or both. For £50 the art of Ian Miller was an absolute bargain.

Okay, I give, they got my money. But yeah, I went to the publisher's site and it was a tiny bit cheaper.