Richard Corben: Grand Master

18 December 200911 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

I’m a bit late to the party, but knocking about on the Web this morning I happily discovered that on October 2nd, 2009, the Directors of Spectrum, an annual showcase of “The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art,” announced that Richard Corben would receive the Spectrum‘s 2009 Grand Master Award. Previous recipients of the award include Frank Frazetta, Don Ivan Punchatz, Leo and Diane Dillon, James E. Bama, John Berkey, Alan Lee, Jean Giraud, Kinuko Y. Craft, Michael William Kaluta, Michael Whelan, H.R. Giger, Jeffrey Jones, Syd Mead, and John Jude Palencar. A biography and full appreciation of Corben appears in Spectrum 16, on sale now. Congratulations, Richard!

BONUS LINK:

Book Review: Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art

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Look Here: Three paperback covers by Richard Corben

16 December 200911 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

From the library of yours truly:

**ABOVE:** Philip K. Dick, *The Penultimate Truth* (New York: Dell, 1980), with cover by Richard Corben dated 1979.

**ABOVE:** Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny, *Deus Irae* (New York: Dell, 1980), with cover by Richard Corben dated 1980.

**ABOVE:** Edgar Pangborn, *West of the Sun* (New York: Dell, 1980), with cover by Richard Corben dated 1979.

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Coming Soon: “Odds and Ends” by Richard Corben

27 November 200911 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

As advertised on the Corben Studios Web site, Odds and Ends is to be a 32-page, black-and-white collection of unfinished, cancelled, and abandoned projects as well as works in progress, including the second chapter of From the Pit, book and CD covers, and more. No specific release date has been announced, but if this little project does eventually come to fruition, it will be the first publication from Corben’s own Fantagor Press that we’ve seen in a long time.

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Look Here: “Duel of the Titans”

25 September 200811 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Here’s a fun single-page comic, written by Robert Barrett, drawn by Richard Corben, featuring dopplegangers of Conan, Tarzan, and Prince Valiant:

According to The Most Complete Comicography of Richard Corben, “Duel of the Titans” was first published in the fourth issue of the venerable E.C. fanzine, Squa Tront, in 1970, and was reprinted eleven years later, in 1981, on page 25 of the only book on Richard Corben’s career and art, the long out-of-print (not to mention long out-of-date) Flights into Fantasy.