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Look There, Read: Jan Strnad and Richard Corben on RAGEMOOR

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Westfield Comics Blog has an interview with longtime friends and legendary comics collaborators, Jan Strnad and Richard Corben, about their forthcoming four-issue Dark Horse mini-series, Ragemoor, which the publisher describes as follows:

Ragemoor! A living castle, nurtured on pagan blood, harborer to deadly monsters! A fortress possessed of its own will and ability to change itself, with the power to add and destroy rooms and to grow without the help of any human hand. Its owner is mad with jealously, its servants aren’t human, and its secret’s horrific!

Issue #1 of Ragemoor will be available in March. So men let your wallets flop out, and women open your purses, because a man or a woman without a copy of Ragemoor will be suffering with the worstest of curses!

In other words, HEADS UP!

“I’ve had a long career in comics, doing it the way I wanted, mostly. I’m grateful for what success I’ve had. I still love the possibility of comics, as a medium to tell the stories I want to, not just the ones that sell big. I still have some goals to achieve and skills to develop so I don’t intend to retire ever. I’m going to continue doing comics until I drop.”
— Richard Corben in conversation, Westfield Comics Blog, January 2012

BONUS COVER:

I’m a bit late with this one, but of course Corben fans will also want to pick up the Murky World one-shot, available in stores now from Dark Horse:

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Heads Up: CREEPY PRESENTS RICHARD CORBEN

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Coming in July 2012 from Dark Horse:

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Here’s the publisher’s description:

CREEPY PRESENTS RICHARD CORBEN

Richard Corben (W/A/Cover), Donald F. McGregor (W), Greg Potter (W), Doug Moench (W), Bill DuBay (W), Steve Skeates (W), Rich Margopoulos (W), Jim Stenstrum (W), Gerry Boudreau (W), Budd Lewis (W), Bruce Jones (W), Roger McKenzie (W), Gerald Conway (W), Al Hewetson (W), Jack Butterworth (W), and Greg Potter (W)

On sale July 18
FC, 320 pages
$29.99
HC, 8 3/8″ x 10 7/8″

Over 300 pages of timeless terror from a master storyteller! Horror comics visionary and coloring pioneer Richard Corben has been a voice of creativity and change for over four decades. For the first time ever, Corben’s legendary Creepy and Eerie short stories and cover illustrations are being collected into one deluxe hardcover! With an informative foreword by artist and comic book colorist José Villarrubia — who also provides color restoration — this volume features Richard Corben’s original stories, Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, and collaborations with cast of comic-book writers.

* Essential stories and illustrations from Richard Corben!

* The first collection of all of Corben’s legendary Creepy and Eerie stories!

This is great news, but what we really want is the complete underground and self-published comics of Richard Corben! Giddy-up, Dark Horse!

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Heads Up: Corben Art Sale, 11 February 2012

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Corben comic art pages will go on sale Saturday 11 February 2012 at noon CST. Available art includes 10 pages from The Bodyssey, 11 pages from Rip in Time, 10 pages from Swamp Thing: Missing Links, and all 10 pages from “Tales of the Black Diamond, Part 5: Cartoon of Blood.” A preview of the sale with thumbnails of all of the pages has already been posted to the Corben website. The actual prices and payment links will be revealed on the sale day, and after that, it’s first come, first serve.

Click here to visit the “Sales” page at corbencomicart.com.

Act quickly on Saturday 11 February 2012, and you could be the proud owner of the original black-and-white art for pages like these:

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Good luck!

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Look Here: NEW TALES OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, page 23, by Richard Corben

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I invented a technique —my system of color overlays —which apparently nobody can understand, but it’s really very simple. The luminescent quality of my color overlays is derived from the way I combine the colors. I shoot the photomechanical separations myself, to a slightly higher contrast than a normal photo engraver would do. This makes the colors appear brighter. I’m excited when I do finally see the colors. I can see if my ideas work well or not so well.”
—Richard Corben in conversation with Brad Balfour,
Heavy Metal #53 (August 1981)

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Heads Up: Corben Art Sale, 16 July 2011

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Richard Corben comic art pages will go on sale via the official Corben website on Saturday 16 July 2011, at Noon, Central Time. The sale will include ten pages from Hellboy: The Crooked Man by Corben and Mike Mignola, ten pages from Corben’s Children of Fire (including the original black-and-white cover art for issue #3 — see above for the colour version), and ten pages from The Bodyssey by Corben and Simon Revelstroke. Right now, the pages are up for “viewing only.” The prices will be posted when the sale goes live. Click here to jump to the sale page.

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Heads Up: HELLBOY: HOUSE OF THE LIVING DEAD by Mignola, Corben, and Stewart

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The Eisner-winning dynamic trio of writer Mike Mignola, penciller/inker Richard Corben, and colourist Dave Stewart reunites for an original 56-page hardcover Hellboy graphic novel (ISBN-10: 1-59582-757-9; ISBN-13: 978-1-59582-757-9), available in November from Dark Horse. “Devastated over the loss of his luchador comrade to vampires,” writes the publisher, “Hellboy lingers in Mexican bars until he’s invited to participate in the ultimate wrestling match with a vicious Frankenstein monster!”

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Look Here: 1984 #1 – cover and original art by Richard Corben

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Corben’s unique method of producing full-colour art by combining a continuous-tone black-and-white grisaille (produced using airbrush, pen and ink, markers, pencil crayons, brushes and paint, etc.) with overlaid, handmade colour separations, gave his finished work a luminosity, intensity, and above all, a texture, that artists who relied on airbrush alone struggled to imitate; it also meant that all of the images produced via Corben’s process — including not only many classic covers but also entire graphic novels such as New Tales of the Arabian Nights, the multi-volume Den saga, and the Heavy Metal reprint of Bloodstar — only exist in colour in the printed versions. The cover of 1984 #1 is a case in point:

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Here’s another example.