Richard Corben

Richard Corben (born on November 1st 1940) is a draftsman and American scenario writer of cartoon . Corben is especially known for its works of Fantasy. It was one of the pillars of the magazine Heavy Metal .

Biography

It was born in a farm in Anderson in the Missouri. He studied with the Kansas City Art Institute, graduate in 1965.

The most known series of Richard Corben is Den , the history of a young person Nerd who, in the imaginary country of Neverwhere, becomes a generally naked and alive musculeux warrior walking of improbable érotico-fantastic adventures.

In 2000, it drew the arc “Times Hardware” of the series Hellblazer (#146-150), scénarisé by Brian Azzarello and published by Vertigo. The following year, one finds it at Marvel, still with Azzarello, on Banner , mini-series out-continuity in four episodes devoted to the character of Hulk. And a year later the same team carries out the mini-series in 5 numbers Cage , devoted to Power Man. It connects with Punisher: The End , one-shot scenarized by Garth Ennis which puts in scene the last days of the character in the future.

In 2005, it carried out the second number of the anthology Solo of cd. Comics where one in particular sees it being tested with the western for the first time of his career. Meanwhile, it started to carry out adaptations of Swamp Thing , marshy creature popularized by Berni Wrigthson or Alan Moore and immortalized with the cinema by Wes Craven. In all, it will carry out three episodes devoted to the “Creature of the Marsh” at cd. Comics. Then, it signed, on a scenario of Steve Niles and Rob Zombie, the drawing of Big Foot . It depicts there the avenger tracking of a man whose parents were wildly attacked by the famous North-American equivalent of the yéti. At the beginning of 2006, Richard Corben drew the mini-series in two episodes Hellboy: Makoma , in collaboration with Mike Mignola, creator of this Superman.

During the summer 2006, it delivered at Marvel the last episode of a trilogy entitled Edgar Allan Poe' S Haunt Of Horror . Composed of ten graphic second readings of the work of Poe, this series in black and white see it joining again with horrific accounts like The Tell-Tale Heart or The Sleeper , in the line of its recent Maison at the edge of the world or of its older adaptations of the poet ( the Fall of the house Usher or The Raven , reactualized here). In another register, Israfel proves to be a prolongation of the vein “Gangsta rap” initiated by the account Cage , The Happiest Day a short account of contemporary urban massacre while Eulalie , account of ordinary sexual misery, can be perceived like a wink with the collection Créatures Of Bad cold .

At the end of 2006, it leaves the register fantastique/SF again by signing one of the short accounts of the second volume of American Splendor of Harvey Pekar. It illustrates there an episode of the life of an ordinary man of ripe age. In the tread, Corben revisits once again a superman of the universe Marvel, Ghost Rider alias Johnny Blaze. For this character of superhuman motorcyclist, studded leather spectrum returned from the blazing inferno, it makes team for two volumes with the colourist Jose Villarrubia, which one had already been able to cross the colors saturated in Cage .

Bibliography (nonexhaustive)

All the comics followed by an asterisk were translated, even partially.

1984 #1-5 (Warren, 1979)
Alien Encounters #5 (Eclipse, 1986)
Alien Worlds #7 (Pacific, 1984)
Aliens Alchemy #1-3 (Dark Horse, 1997) *
Banner #1-4 (Marvel, 2001) *
Batman Black And White #2 (cd., 1996)
Bloodstar , Morning Star Close Leanwood New York 1976 (congress Catalog number 76-1202)
Cage vol.2 #1-5 (Marvel, 2002) *
Children off Fire #1 (Fantagor Near, 1987-88)
Special Corben #1 (Pacific, 1984)
Creepy #36, 41,54,56-64, 66,68,73,77,92,101 (Warren, 1970-78)
Den #1-10 (Fantagor Near, 1988-89) *
Den Saga #1-4 (Fantagor Near, 1992-94)
Eerie #58, 60,62,64,77,79,81,86-87, 90 (Warren, 1974-78)
Flinch #1 (Vertigo, 1999)
Frank Frazetta Fantasy Illustrated #1-3 (Quantum Cat Entertainment, 1998)
Gangland #2 (Vertigo, 1998)
Heartthrobs #3 (Vertigo, 1999)
Heavy Metal Magazine (Heavy Metal)
Hellblazer #146-150 (Vertigo, 2000) *
Horror In The Dark #1-4 (Fantagor Near, 1991)
Just Imagines Stan Lee with Walter Simonson Creating Sandman (cd., 2002)
Omni Comix #3 (General Media Communications, 1995)
Punisher: The End (Marvel, 2004) *
Ray Bradbury Comics #1 (Signals/Byron Preiss, 1993)
RIP In Time #1-5 (Fantagor Near, 1986-87)
Robert E. Howard 'S Myth Maker (Cross-country race Lime pits Comics, 1999)
Solo #2 (cd., 2005) *
Its Off Mutant World #1-5 (Fantagor Near, 1990)
The Spirit #30 (Kitchen Sink, 1981)
Twisted Bruise #1, 3,5 (Pacific, 1982-83)
Unknown Worlds Off Science Fiction #4 (Marvel, 1975)
Vampirella #15-16, 30-31, 33,54 (Warren, 1972,74,76)
Weird Fantasies #1 (1972)
Weird War Bruise #1 (cd., 1997)

External bonds

Comic and biography by years
the site of Richard Corben itself
Article on Richard Corben on data base Paradisio
the art of Richard Corben, site not-official
Bibliography supplements of Corben
the site of a fan
Los extraordinarios mundos of Richard Corben

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