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Post by DubipR on Dec 10, 2020 11:31:55 GMT -5
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Post by mikelmidnight on Dec 10, 2020 12:20:39 GMT -5
Rest in power to one of the most important and foundational American cartoonists.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 10, 2020 12:27:50 GMT -5
I first saw Corben's work in Maurice Horn's World Encyclopedia of Comics, but it was only minor panels; so, I didn't know what to make of it. Then, I saw actual stories, which just hit you with their power. I think I saw the Heavy Metal movie before I had read an issue of Heavy Metal; but, thanks to Starlog, I was at least aware of who he was.
Another legend gone to comic Valhalla, where a lot of people walk around with their dorks hanging out and the women have bazooms that can double as floatation devices.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 13:54:46 GMT -5
Wow, another great one lost. His legacy of work will remain, but it is sad to know we will never see more form him. Condolences to his family, friends, and legion of fans.
-M
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Post by tarkintino on Dec 10, 2020 14:46:40 GMT -5
Brilliant talent who will be missed. Between Heavy Metal, Warren's short-lived Comix International(and other titles for the publisher), I was treated to his great approach to art, and could not get enough.   |
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Post by brutalis on Dec 10, 2020 14:47:14 GMT -5
All the true Masters are gone away. Thank you Lord for allowing Corben and so many others providing us a lifetime of their artistic skills to enjoy. I am feeling old with every famous death from people I grew up reading and watching. Corben hits hard as he was EVERYWHERE during my youth of the 70's and 80's, an everpresent presence that I never stopped enjoying.
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Post by MDG on Dec 10, 2020 15:23:17 GMT -5
I've always hated myself for not picking up that Comix International, but I had most of the stories in Creepy and Eerie and couldn't justify two whole dollars for a magazine. I could buy 10 comics for that!
That said, I was buying just about any Corben that appeared around that time, and started buying undergrounds initially for his work. Recently, I started looking around on eBay for books with his work, and am expecting a shipment Rowlf as we speak. Typically, when I looked at eBay today to check on something else, I saw that the prices of the other Corben books I had on my watch list shot up in price.
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Post by brianf on Dec 10, 2020 15:37:22 GMT -5
Corben had so many iconic works, so it's hard to pinpoint a few. But I love his work on Hellboy - The Crooked Man is one of my favorites of all time  |
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Post by Confessor on Dec 10, 2020 20:38:08 GMT -5
Corben's work was lovely to look at and very much associated in my mind with the late 70s and early 80s adult sci-fi and fantasy featured in Heavy Metal magazine.
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 10, 2020 20:51:06 GMT -5
Not a favorite, but you could always tell Corben art. r.i.p.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 11, 2020 7:20:41 GMT -5
He was a master but his art always made me uncomfortable.
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Post by DubipR on Dec 11, 2020 7:25:16 GMT -5
Corben had so many iconic works, so it's hard to pinpoint a few. But I love his work on Hellboy - The Crooked Man is one of my favorites of all time Hellboy in Mexico is my favorite Corben/Mignola storyarc. |
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Post by kirby101 on Dec 11, 2020 9:29:11 GMT -5
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Post by mikelmidnight on Dec 11, 2020 12:14:51 GMT -5
Another legend gone to comic Valhalla, where a lot of people walk around with their dorks hanging out and the women have bazooms that can double as floatation devices.
One of the notable things qualities he had is that, even in the undergrounds, he was one of the very rare artists who could depict male anatomy as casually as female anatomy without every panel looking awkward or porny.
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Post by profh0011 on Dec 11, 2020 18:30:34 GMT -5
My first exposure to Richard Corben's art was in the very 1st Warren horror comic I ever bought, the one I picked up at that large drug store in Houston... EERIE #33. That was the one with Larry Tood's "Starvisions" on the cover. In one issue-- Jack Sparling, George Roussos, Ken Barr, Ernie Colon, Larry Todd, Pat Boyette, and Richard Corben. Probably my intro to ALL of those guys. The story was " The Pest!" about a new insecticide gadget... which wound up apparently killing an already-sickly woman. When her husband threatened the company owner with a lawsuit, later that night, the guy ran the husband down with his car in a hit-and-run. Later still, he somehow got locked in his own warehouse, surrounded by the insecticide towers. He collapsed... and when he woke up... somehow, he'd turned into a cockroach. Yes, some things stick with you.
Cousin Eerie (though I had no idea, looking back he kind of reminds me now of Sidney Greenstreet), said... "And it's a GOOD THING he didn't REALLY turn into a bug. After all, some my best friends are... BUT THAT'S ANOTHER STORY!"
Over the years, Corben became a favorite of mine. I saw tons of his stuff at Warren, and elsewhere. Particularly "HEAVY METAL". Somewhere around here I have an entire magazine box crammed with nothing but TPB reprint collections of Corben's stuff. I could spend a couple months just re-reading that stuff alone.
An early episode of "DEN" was the single reason I got hooked on buying "HEAVY METAL". Although I felt that story could have been turned into a feature film all on its own (or at least, an hour-long adaptation), the TEN or so minutes of the heavily-edited down version that appeared in the 1981 "HM" movie remains one of my favorite parts of that film, partly because they took this deadly-serious fantasy epic and turned it into a COMEDY. John Candy was so funny as hell in that film.
I once had the nerve to send him some of my stuff, suggesting he might be perfect to illustrate my supernatural stuff (seeing as Tom Sutton was already GONE). He politely wrote back saying, "I don't think I'm ready to do SUPERHEROES". Hmm. 10 years later, he did "HULK" and "LUKE CAGE" for Marvel. Oddly enough, I wasn't impressed with those.
In recent years, It just about made my head explode when I found out that, once past the 3 POE stories he did for Warren, and the 1 more he did for Pacific (which I believe he may have "held back" from Warren, to get a better licensing deal), he returned to POE twice-- first, for Marvel Max, where he set a new record for number of POE comics adaptations done by a single artist-- and then, some years later, at Dark Horse, where just just about DOUBLED his previous number!!! He did 30 of them!
I kinda doubt anyone will ever surpass his number on those.
I have his first 3 POEs at my blog... and while at the moment I have NO idea if I'll ever get that far, the idea, is to eventually have them ALL up there in one place. |
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