Voodoo Forest gathers roughly ten years of John Blanche’s work into a final, edited sequence. The selection feels private rather than encyclopedic. Images follow their own internal weather: ritual, pressure, humour, dread. The tone stays controlled and unsentimental.
The complete content was previously presented as the exhibition “Within the woods” at Lucca Comics & Games 2022 (curated by Tiziano Antognozzi). In book form, the work slows down. Repetition becomes structure. Each page acts like a fixed frame, keeping the drawings intact as documents.
Hollow Press issued this second printing (July 2023) as a limited edition of 2,000 copies. Production choices are explicit: A4 format, 96 pages, offset black-and-white printing, stitched binding, and a canvas hard cover with black hot-foil. The book is printed on Fedrigoni Ivory Smooth 160g, chosen for clean tonal range and sharp linework.
John Blanche is known for dense, baroque fantasy illustration where figures, relics, and architecture merge into one anxious surface. His imagery helped shape the look of modern dark fantasy and tabletop art. In Voodoo Forest, the emphasis shifts from world-building to a sustained internal sequence. For collectors, this John Blanche art book is both a reading object and a well-specified print artifact.
