Richard Corben was an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine, especially the Den series which was featured in the magazine's first film adaptation in 1981.
20 Facts About Richard Corben
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Richard Corben was the winner of the 2009 Spectrum Grand Master Award and the 2018 Grand Prix at Angouleme.
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Richard Corben was born on a farm in Anderson, Missouri, and went on to get a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute, in 1965.
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Richard Corben's stories appeared in Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, 1984 and Comix International.
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In 1975, when Moebius, Druillet, and Jean-Pierre Dionnet started publishing the magazine Metal Hurlant in France, Richard Corben submitted some of his stories to them.
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Richard Corben continued his work for the franchise in America, where the magazine was called Heavy Metal.
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From 1986 to 1994 Richard Corben operated his own publishing imprint, Fantagor Press.
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Richard Corben felt it portrayed him as a "petty, childish, borderline psychotic oaf".
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Richard Corben wrote a letter in retort, which was published in the September 1981 issue.
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Richard Corben did the cover of Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell, Jim Steinman's Bad for Good and a movie poster for the Brian De Palma film Phantom of the Paradise.
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In 2000, Richard Corben collaborated with Brian Azzarello on five issues of Azzarello's run on Hellblazer which was collected in a trade called Hellblazer: Hard Time.
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Richard Corben adapted the classic horror story The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson for DC's Vertigo imprint.
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In 2001, Azzarello and Richard Corben teamed up to create Marvel's Startling Stories: Banner and Marvel MAX's Cage.
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In June 2004, Richard Corben joined with Garth Ennis to produce The Punisher: The End, a one-shot title for Marvel published under the MAX imprint as part of Marvel's The End series.
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In 2007, Richard Corben did a two issue run on Marvel Comics' surreal demon biker, Ghost Rider.
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Since then Richard Corben has done more work for Marvel, DC, IDW, and most notably Dark Horse, drawing the Eisner Award-winning Hellboy.
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In May 2020, Parallax Studio announced preproduction on the live-action animated film MEAD based on the comic book Fever Dreams illustrated by Richard Corben and written by Jan Strnad.
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Richard Corben won a 1973 Goethe Award for "Favorite Fan Artist".
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Richard Corben received a CINE Golden Eagle and President of Japan Cultural Society trophy in 1968 for his short film Neverwhere.
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In 2015, Richard Corben was inducted into the Ghastly Awards Hall of Fame.