Category: Richard Corben

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Connections: Richard Corben and Jason Brashill

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Corben’s cover art for the debut album by Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman, Bat Out of Hell, is explosive, iconic, classic. And since Bat Out of Hell is one of the best-selling albums of all time, I suspect that a great many people would recognize Jason Brashill’s cover to Judge Dredd 1996 Mega-Special as a homage to it. Still, I am delighted that the magazine’s editors acknowledged, on the indicia page, that the front cover art is “after MEATLOAF: Bat Out of Hell”; I am disappointed, however, that they didn’t see fit to mention Corben by name. Because technically speaking, it’s Corben’s art alone that Jason Brashill’s work is “after”; the typographical choices of the designer of the Bat Out of Hell cover have been completely ignored.

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Heads Up: “Hellboy Library Edition Volume 4”

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Coming in July 2011 from Dark Horse:

At last, the handsome, oversized “Hellboy Library Edition” hardcover series continues with Volume 4, which collects the following two trade-paperback collections of short stories: The Troll Witch and Other Stories, with scripts by Mike Mignola and art by Mignola, Richard Corben, and P. Craig Russell; and The Crooked Man and Others, with scripts by Mike Mignola and art by Richard Corben, Duncan Fegredo, Joshua Dysart, and Jason Shawn Alexander. The book will also include an extensive selection of previously unreleased sketches and designs. If you own any of the previous volumes, you’ll know that Mignola’s much-admired solo art looks absolutely gorgeous in the oversized format, and I expect that the work of Mignola’s hand-picked artist-collaborators will fare just as well, especially with multiple Eisner Award-winning Photoshop magician, Dave Stewart, handling the colours. A must have!

BONUS LINK:

The Art of Coloring: Making Comics With Dave Stewart [Interview]

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Heads Up: More Corben art for sale…

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On 19 February 2011, Corben Studios will hold another sale of comic art by Richard Corben. The sale is to include twenty-eight pages from the artist’s DC project, Solo, along with all five pages of the story “Herbert West: Reanimator, Part 1: From the Dark,” Graphic Classics [#4]: H.P. Lovecraft (2002). All of the pages have been drawn by Corben with Sharpie and Pigma pens on 11 x 17 inch Strathmore paper, and small scans are available for viewing on the Corben Studios Web site. The pages will go on sale at 12:00 noon CST.

“A note about these pages,” writes Corben on the sale page. “In my own opinion the book Solo published by D. C. Comics in 2003 represents a high point in my comic career. ‘Homecoming’ and ‘The Plague’ are some of the best line art and writing I ever did.”

Here’s a sample page, as it appeared in the published comic:

And here, finally, is a link to the sale page.

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Look Here, Read: “Interview with John Severin” from 1973 and more!

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From The Mirk-Wood Times #2 (March 1973), here’s an interview with John Severin in which the EC and Cracked stalwart can think of only one underground artist worthy of praise; and if that isn’t a big enough blast from the past, here, too, from Thrilling Adventure Stories #2 (August 1975), is “Town Tamer,” with story by Steve Mitchell and art by Severin:

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“They made a devastation and called it peace” — Roman historian Tacitus on the Roman conquest of lowland Scotland, AD 80-81.

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Look Here, Read: “Damsel in Dragon Dress” by Doug Moench and Richard Corben

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From Grim Wit #2, published in September 1973, here’s a rollicking six-pager with story by Doug Moench and art by the great Richard Corben:

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I first read “Damsel in Dragon Dress” in the trade-paperback collection, The Odd Comic World of Richard Corben, which I purchased new, back in high school, from a “Captain Company” advertisement in either Creepy or Eerie, I forget which… it was a long time ago… but I still have my original copy of that book, along with very nice backup copy that I bought on ebay years later…

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Heads Up: Another Corben art sale, 20 November 2010

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Next weekend, if you’ve got the bucks, and you’re quick on the draw, you could be the proud owner of the original art for a page like this:

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According to a recent email announcement from Dona Corben, “Corben comic art pages will go on sale Saturday, November 20th, at Noon, Central time. The pages are up for ‘viewing only’ now. The prices will be posted when the sale goes live on Saturday, the 20th.” Included in the sale will be pages from Hellboy: Crooked Man, Rip in Time, and Swamp Thing #7 and #8.

That link again is http://www.corbencomicart.com/sales.html

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Look Here, Read: Another interview with Corben from 1973

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Corben has always had a knack for small-scale figurative sculpture, but in the thirty-seven years since the above interview, he has stayed true to his original impulse to use sculpture mainly as a means to an end, namely, the precise delineation of form in his comics, and has never seriously pursued sculpture as an independent art.