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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 10, 2020 12:01:47 GMT -5
Back in the late 70s I found my older cousin's stash of Heavy Metal magazine. While sure the more adult artwork caught my attention. But one artist captured my imagination.That artist was Richard Corben.
If you have ever seen the animated film Heavy Metal Corben created the Den character. I would post some of his artwork in this thread but most of it is NSFW.
RIP to one of the greats.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 12:05:42 GMT -5
Dang it, someone on my Twitter TL was posting a bunch of his art on Twitter just now and I didn't realize the context until someone else further down mentioned him.
He did some Edgar Allen Poe comics in recent years - at Marvel and Dark Horse - which were (no shock) exquisite.
RIP sir.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 10, 2020 13:25:33 GMT -5
Year or so back I got a collection of illustrated Lovecraft stories. Corben did part of the Herbert West story.
Just learned earlier that Corben did the cover of Bat out of Hell. I bought that album cause I saw the cover as a 8 year old and thought "OMG This album is gonna be metal as f***!". Got home and listened to it and yea nothing metal about that album. But hey it has a great cover.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 13:41:37 GMT -5
RIP to one of the greats.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 15:59:09 GMT -5
Something I'm realizing as I read tributes and an obit is that he was sort of a mystery figure in comics. Not a lot of creators knew him. Even Mike Mignola in his Twitter tribute said he didn't know him well (though he said he spent an afternoon with him once), and he wrote 1 or 2 Hellboy minis specifically for him to draw. A tidbit from Mark Evanier's blog about him says that Joe Kubert offered him a job at DC in the early '70s & was shocked to get a refusal; he told this to Jack Kirby and he said "Good for him. He knows you don't have to work at DC/Marvel to work in comics." |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 10, 2020 16:19:07 GMT -5
It had never seen a picture of Richard Corben until today. Appears he passed on the 2nd but today is when the news got out.
I need to get the hardcover collection of his work from Creepy and Eerie.
There has been a few times I bought a comic or collection just cause it had a bit of Corben art. Like DC 100 page giant Our Fighting Forces,the one that was only sold at Walmart. I grabbed it cause it has a 5 or 6 page Corben story I had never read.
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