Editing Richard Corben (section)

==Biography==
Richard Corben was born on a farm<ref name="Balfour, Brad 2001">Balfour, Brad (June 2001). "The Richard Corben Interview, Part 1". Heavy Metal #51: 6–11.</ref> in [[Anderson, Missouri]], and went on to get a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the [[Kansas City Art Institute]], in 1965.<ref>Bharucha, Fershid (1981). Richard Corben: Flights Into Fantasy, page 26. Thumb Tack Books. {{ISBN|978-84-499-1949-7}}.</ref> At the same time, he trained in [[bodybuilding]], but eventually retired from the art with few accomplishments due to a lack of time to dedicate himself to it.<ref name=San>{{Cite book| last1 = Sánchez Rodríguez| first1 = Antonio|title = Fisicoculturismo. Orígenes antropológicos y connotaciones filosóficas| publisher = Midac, SL| year = 2019 | isbn = 9788413241197}}</ref>

After working as a professional animator at Kansas City's Calvin Productions, Corben started writing and illustrating for the [[underground comics]], including ''Grim Wit'', ''[[Slow Death (comics)|Slow Death]]'', ''Skull'', ''Rowlf'', ''Fever Dreams'' and his own anthology ''Fantagor''.<ref>Bharucha, Fershid (1981). Richard Corben: Flights Into Fantasy, page 52-56. Thumb Tack Books. {{ISBN|978-84-499-1949-7}}.</ref> In 1970 he began illustrating horror and science-fiction stories for [[Warren Publishing]].<ref>Bharucha, Fershid (1981). Richard Corben: Flights Into Fantasy, page 92. Thumb Tack Books. {{ISBN|978-84-499-1949-7}}.</ref> His stories appeared in ''[[Creepy (magazine)|Creepy]]'', ''[[Eerie (magazine)|Eerie]]'', ''[[Vampirella]]'', ''[[1984 (magazine)|1984]]'' and ''Comix International''. He also colored several episodes of [[Will Eisner]]'s ''[[Spirit (comics)|Spirit]]''. All the stories and covers he did for ''Creepy'' and ''Eerie'' have been reprinted by Dark Horse Books in a single volume: ''Creepy Presents Richard Corben''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/20-025/Creepy-Presents-Richard-Corben-hardcover-collection.|title=Creepy Presents Richard Corben HC :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics}}</ref> The three stories he drew for ''Vampirella'' have been reprinted by Dynamite Entertainment in ''Vampirella Archives Vol. 5''.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021004334/http://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1606902253|url=http://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1606902253|title=VAMPIRELLA ARCHIVES VOL. 5 HC|website=Dynamite Entertainment|access-date=Feb 29, 2024|archive-date=Oct 21, 2013}}</ref>

In 1975, when [[Jean Giraud|Moebius]], [[Philippe Druillet|Druillet]], and [[Jean-Pierre Dionnet]] started publishing the magazine ''[[Métal Hurlant]]'' in France, Corben submitted some of his stories to them.<ref name=interview-1981-pt2 /> He continued his work for the franchise in America, where the magazine was called ''[[Heavy Metal (magazine)|Heavy Metal]]''. Also in 1975, a selection of his black-and-white underground comix stories was collected in hardcover as ''The Richard Corben Funnybook'' from Kansas City's Nickelodeon Press. In 1976 he adapted a short [[Robert E. Howard]] story in an early [[graphic novel]], ''[[Bloodstar]]''.<ref>Seuling, Phil (1975). "The Fantasy Epic: Crearaphic Novel". ''Mediascene'' #16: 8–9.</ref>

Among the stories drawn for ''Heavy Metal'' he continued the saga of his most famous creation, ''[[Den (comics)|Den]]'', which had begun in the short film ''[[Neverwhere (1968)|Neverwhere]]'' and a short story in the underground publication ''Grim Wit'' No. 2. The saga of Den is a fantasy series about the adventures of a young underweight [[nerd]] who travels to Neverwhere, a universe taking inspirational nods from [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Hyborian Age]], [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s [[Barsoom]] and [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s horror dimensions. This story was adapted in a highly abridged form, in the [[animated film]] ''[[Heavy Metal (film)|Heavy Metal]]'', where Den was voiced by [[John Candy]] in a humorous interpretation of the character that Corben found excellent.

Corben's collaborations are varied, ranging from ''[[Rip in Time]]'' with [[Bruce Jones (comics)|Bruce Jones]], to [[Harlan Ellison]] for ''[[Vic and Blood]]'', to the ''Mutant World'' titles, ''Jeremy Brood'', and ''[[The Arabian Nights]]'' with [[Jan Strnad]].

From 1986 to 1994 Corben operated his own publishing imprint, '''Fantagor Press'''. Among the titles Fantagor published were ''Den'', ''Den Saga'', ''Horror in the Dark'', ''[[Rip in Time]]'', and ''Son of Mutant World''. Fantagor went out of business after the 1994 contraction of the comics industry.<ref>{{cite news|department=Newswatch|title=Comics Publishers Suffer Tough Summer: Body Count Rises in Market Shakedown|work=The Comics Journal|number=172 |date=November 1994|pages=13–18}}</ref>

Due to the sexual nature of Corben's art, it has been accused of being [[pornographic]], a description he disagreed with, preferring to call his work "[[sensual]]" instead.<ref name=San/> One notorious example was the interview he gave ''[[Heavy Metal (magazine)|Heavy Metal]]'' editor [[Brad Balfour]] in 1981.<ref name="Balfour, Brad 2001"/><ref name=interview-1981-pt2>{{cite news|date=July 1981|interviewer=Brad Balfour|title=The Richard Corben Interview, Part 2|work=Heavy Metal|number=52|pages=8–14}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|interviewer=Brad Balfour |date=August 1981|title=The Richard Corben Interview, Part 3|magazine=Heavy Metal|number=53|pages=8–13}}</ref> Corben was very dissatisfied with the interview. He felt it portrayed him as a "petty, childish, borderline psychotic oaf". He wrote a letter in retort, which was published in the September 1981 issue.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Richard Corben letter|magazine=Heavy Metal|volume= V|number= 6 |date=September 1981}}</ref>

Corben did the cover of [[Meat Loaf]]'s ''[[Bat Out of Hell]]'', [[Jim Steinman]]'s ''[[Bad for Good]]'' and a [[movie poster]] (based on a layout compositional sketch by [[Neal Adams]]<ref>Adams, Neal (1976). ''The Neal Adams Treasury''. Pure Imagination. Page 36,</ref>) for the [[Brian De Palma]] film ''[[Phantom of the Paradise]]''. In addition, he provided cover art for the VHS release of the low-budget horror film ''Spookies''.

In 2000, Corben collaborated with [[Brian Azzarello]] on five issues of Azzarello's run on ''[[Hellblazer]]'' (146–150) which was collected in a [[trade paperback (comics)|trade]] called ''Hellblazer: Hard Time''.<ref name="vert-hell">{{Cite book | last = Irvine | first = Alex | author-link = Alexander C. Irvine | contribution = John Constantine Hellblazer | editor-last = Dougall  | editor-first = Alastair | title = ''The Vertigo Encyclopedia'' | pages = 102–111 | publisher = [[Dorling Kindersley]] | place = New York | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-7566-4122-1 | oclc = 213309015}}</ref> He also adapted the classic horror story ''[[The House on the Borderland]]'' by [[William Hope Hodgson]] for DC's Vertigo imprint. In 2001, Azzarello and Corben teamed up to create [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'s ''[[Startling Stories: Banner]]'' (a four issue mini-series exploring [[Doc Samson]]'s relationship with [[Bruce Banner]]) and [[Marvel MAX]]'s ''[[Luke Cage#MAX|Cage]]'' (a five issue mini-series starring [[Luke Cage]]). In June 2004, Corben joined with [[Garth Ennis]] to produce ''[[The Punisher: The End]]'', a [[One-shot (comics)|one-shot]] title for Marvel published under the [[MAX (comics)|MAX]] imprint as part of Marvel's ''[[The End (comics)|The End]]'' series. The story tells of [[The Punisher]]'s final days on an earth ravaged by [[nuclear holocaust]]. Ever the independent, Corben would work with rocker [[Rob Zombie]] and [[Steve Niles]] in 2005 on a project for [[IDW Publishing]] called ''Bigfoot''. In 2007, Corben did a two issue run on [[Marvel Comics]]' surreal demon biker, ''[[Ghost Rider]]''. At [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'s [[MAX (comics)|MAX]] imprint he has produced ''[[Haunt of Horror (MAX)|Haunt of Horror]]'', a [[Limited series (comics)|mini-series]] adapting classic works of horror to comics. The first mini-series, published in 2006, was based on the stories of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]<ref>{{comicbookdb|type=issue|id=41649|title=''Haunt of Horror: Edgar Allan Poe''}}</ref> followed by a second series in 2008 adapting works by [[H. P. Lovecraft]].<ref>[http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=150798 Corben and Lovecraft at Marvel in June] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208054457/http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=150798 |date=December 8, 2008 }}, [[Newsarama]], March 20, 2008</ref> Between 2008 and 2009 he illustrated the flashback sequences in ''Conan of Cimmeria'' #1–7, collected as ''[[Conan (Dark Horse Comics)|Conan]] Volume 7: Cimmeria''. In 2009 he illustrated ''[[Starr the Slayer]]'' for Marvel's MAX comics imprint. Since then Corben has done more work for Marvel, DC, IDW, and most notably Dark Horse, drawing the Eisner Award-winning ''[[Hellboy]]''.

In May 2020, [[Parallax Studio]] announced preproduction on the [[live-action animated film]] ''[[MEAD (film)|MEAD]]'' (originally titled ''To Meet the Faces You Meet'') based on the comic book ''Fever Dreams'' illustrated by Corben and written by Jan Strnad.<ref>{{cite web |last=Osborn |first=Nicholas |title=NEWS WATCH: Parallax Studio launches Kickstarter for new film "To Meet the Faces You Meet" starring Patton Oswalt |work=Comic Watch |date=May 13, 2020 |url=https://comic-watch.com/news/news-watch-parallax-studio-launches-kickstarter-for-new-film-to-meet-the-faces-you-meet-starring-patton-oswalt |access-date=December 3, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Patton Oswalt Joins Corben/Strnad for 'To Meet the Faces You Meet' Movie |journal=[[Heavy Metal (magazine)|Heavy Metal]] |date=May 14, 2020 |url=https://www.heavymetal.com/news/patton-oswalt-joins-corben-strnad-for-to-meet-the-faces-you-meet-movie/ |access-date=December 3, 2020}}</ref> The film stars [[Robert Picardo]] and [[Samuel Hunt (actor)|Samuel Hunt]] and features the voices of [[Patton Oswalt]] and [[Patrick Warburton]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Robert Picardo, Others Join 'To Meet the Faces You Meet' Film Cast |work=Creepy Kingdom |date=September 12, 2020 |url=https://www.creepykingdom.com/post/to-meet-the-faces-you-meet-film-cast |access-date=December 3, 2020}}</ref> ''MEAD'' was premiered at the [[2022 Cannes Film Festival]] on May 22, 2022, and was released for [[Streaming media|streaming]] in North America on August 9, 2022.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vision Films to feature four screenings at the Cannes Film Festival  |work=Señal News |date=May 5, 2022 |url=
https://senalnews.com/en/events/vision-films-to-feature-four-screenings-at-the-cannes-film-festival- |access-date=June 30, 2022}}</ref>