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== Awards == Corben's work in comics and animation has won him recognition, including the [[Shazam Awards|Shazam Award]] for Outstanding New Talent in 1971, and a Shazam Award for Superior Achievement by an Individual in 1973. Corben won a 1973 [[Goethe Award (comics)|Goethe Award]] for "Favorite Fan Artist". He also received a [[CINE]] Golden Eagle and President of Japan Cultural Society trophy in 1968 for his short film ''[[Neverwhere (1968)|Neverwhere]]''.<ref>Bharucha, Fershid (1981). ''Richard Corben: Flights Into Fantasy''. Page 44. Thumb Tack Books. {{ISBN|978-84-499-1949-7}}.</ref> While working for the [[Warren Publishing|Warren]] anthologies, he received numerous Warren Awards: 1973 Best Artist/Writer and Special Award for "Excellence", 1976 Best Art for "Within You, Without You" (''Eerie'' #77) and Best Cover (also for ''Eerie'' #77), and 1978 Best Cover Artist.<ref name="locusmag"/> In 2009 Corben won the "Best Finite Series/Limited Series" Eisner Award for ''Hellboy: The Crooked Man'' and in 2011 he won the "Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)" Eisner Award, for Hellboy: Double Feature of Evil. Finally, in 2012 he was elected to [[the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame]]. In 2015, Corben was inducted into the Ghastly Awards Hall of Fame. His previous Ghastly Awards include Best Artist in 2013 and Best One-shot Comics for his Dark Horse Poe adaptations... Edgar Allan Poe's The Conqueror Worm in 2012, Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven & The Red Death (2013) and Edgar Allan Poe's Morella and the Murders in the Rue Morgue in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ghastlyawards.com/p/winners-and-nominees.html|title = Ghastly Awards – Don't be an Amber Ghastly awards}}</ref> In January 2018 he won the prestigious [[Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême|Grand Prix]] at [[Angoulême International Comics Festival|Angoulême]] and presidency of the 2019 festival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lepoint.fr/pop-culture/bandes-dessinees/richard-corben-la-belle-surprise-du-grand-prix-d-angouleme-2018--24-01-2018-2189403_2922.php|title = Richard Corben, la belle surprise du Grand Prix d'Angoulême 2018|date = January 24, 2018}}</ref> Beginning concurrently with the 2019 festival in January, a 250-piece collection of his original artworks was put on display at the Musée d'Angoulême, the exhibit ending March 10, 2019.
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