Still Floating: 40 Years of Pennywise contributor Jonathan Lees

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If you've attended a StokerCon, then you've heard of Jonathan Lees. Every year, he puts on the Final Frame Horror Short Film Competition on the Friday night of the convention. And every year, it's a highlight of the weekend. This past year, the quality of the films was unsurpassed, my favorite of all the Final Frames I've attended.

I first met Jonathan at Necon in 2016(?) where we were paired up as roommates. It was my first Necon and I was pretty nervous as I watched the attendees rolling in and hugging and laughing...while I knew just a handful of people. Jonathan was friendly and I couldn't have asked for a better roomie.

Jonathan's essay in Still Floating is called "Judging a Book by IT's Cover." He turns his keen artist's eye to dissect the iconic artwork on the 1986 cover of IT.

Jonathan's Bio:

Jonathan Lees is continuing to explore personal rituals by inscribing uncanny texts about ill behaviors that have appeared in such illustrious tomes as Long Division, Chiral Mad, Even in the Grave, Other Terrors, and the Shirley Jackson Award-winning, The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors.

Recently, "We Have (Never) Been Here Before" debuted in editor Tom Deady's new anthology, The Rack II, and "To Those That Have Lost Hope" will be featured in Suffering the Other from Dim Shores.

Jonathan can be approached cautiously on IG and Threads (@jonnothin)

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