Heads Up: HELLBOY: DOUBLE FEATURE OF EVIL by Mignola and Corben

21 May 201011 August 2016 RCLeave a comment

Just noticed that CBR news has a preview of the forthcoming collaboration between Mike Mignola and Richard Corben, entitled Hellboy: Double Feature of Evil. Mignola and Corben have worked together on several different Hellboy stories in the past few years — every one of which is worth adding to your bookshelf — so I think one can safely say that, at last, Corben has found a new regular collaborator (à la Jan Strnad) who is genuinely excited to work with him and fully capable of delivering compelling scripts that play to Corben’s strengths as an artist!

“Richard and I were talking about shorter stories,” Mignola explained to CBR. “Richard apparently likes drawing Hellboy, and my opinion is, as long as he wants to draw Hellboy, I will keep throwing stories to him.

“One of the things I said to him was, ‘Would you mind if I came up with a couple of shorter stories for you to do?’ Both of these were stories that had been knocking about in my head for a long time, and so Double Feature Of Evil was just us coming up with a name for a one-shot that would have two stories.”

“With Double Feature of Evil,” adds Hellboy editor Scott Allie, “there was some internal factor in Mike making him think about these stories more often, but the external factor is that Richard did such an excellent job on Crooked Man that we wanted to give him some more straight horror stories. A lot of Hellboy stories aren’t really horror stories. They’re monster stories or action adventure stories. Double Feature is a pair of horror stories that Richard can pull off just about better than anybody.”

Hellboy: Double Feature of Evil is scheduled for publication later this year.

BONUS LINK:

Dark Horse: Corben’s cover for Buzzard #1 by Eric Powell

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Separated at Birth? Richard Corben’s Luke Cage and Cordozar Calvin Broadus’s Snoop Dogg

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The Luke Cage image is from 2002; the picture of Snoop is from 2010.

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Look Here, Read: “The Believer,” with art by Richard Corben

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From the pages of Comix International #4 (Warren, 1976), here’s “The Believer,” with story by Budd Lewis and art by Richard Corben:

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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

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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.