Mon Dieu! Bear witness to the shockingly lurid covers for the three-volume French edition of
King's magnum opus of generational evil, 1986's
It. A reader hipped me to these the other day, and boy am I grateful. Particularly distressing - besides the anguished faces of the Losers' Club - is the cover for the third volume, all spidery terror, severed limbs, and screaming children. You know you love it! The artist is
Matthieu Blanchin.
Those are fantastic! I think I like the first volume the best. Even though it is, ostensibly, the least frightening, you can just tell that crooked clown is up to no good.
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--J/Metro
The best thing about the volume 3 cover is how it manages to (to me, at least) make Pennywise's true form frightening. I think many of us had that part of the story ruined for us by the awful TV movie.
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ReplyDeleteThose covers are amazing. I like the 2nd one the best but the other two are great too. It is not that the US covers are bad though, I just love the style these are done in.
ReplyDeleteMan... Those are pretty damn intense, especially volume 3.
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ReplyDeleteIt's so odd to me to see it called an "awful TV movie." That adaptation is often considered a masterpiece...
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