Richard Corben (b. Oct. 1, 1940) is an American comic artist, illustrator and animator. Corben made comics to French Métal Hurlant magazine, and Heavy Metal in U.S. Corben's one of the well known comic to Heavy Metal was pornographic fantasy adventure Den. In the story young nerd travels in to world of Neverwhere, and meets dangerous monsters, and naked muscleman and Amazon's. The story has also seen in one part of the animated film Heavy Metal in 1981.
Corben has made lot of graphic novels, Rip in Time (1986) with Bruce Jones, Vic and Blood (1987) with Harlan Ellison and Bigfoot (2005) with Rob Zombie and Steve Niles. Corben has illustrated many horror stories by Robert E. Howard (including Bloodstar, 1976), Edgar Allan Poe (The Fall of the House of Usher, 1989) and H.P. Lovecraft (Rats in the Walls, 1972).
For DC Comics Corben has made Swamp Thing, 8 pages story to Batman Black/White (1996) written by Jan Strnad, and John Constantine's adventures with Brian Azzarello (Hellblazer #147-#150) titled Hard Time (2000). For Marvel Comics Corben has made Punisher: The End (written by Garth Ennis) in 2004 and Ghost Rider (written by Daniel Way) in 2006. Banner (2001) written by Brian Azzarello is a four issue mini-series about Hulk. (Continues below...)
Richard Corben has mostly made underground comics, fantasy and science fiction, but also superhero comics. He has made album cover art, including Meat Loaf's
Bat out of Hell and movie poster for the horror-comedy musical
Phantom of the Paradise directed by Brian De Palma, 1974.
Some works for Fantagor Press
NeverWhere, 1978
New Tales of the Arabian Nights, 1978 (written by Jan Strnad)
The Bodyssey, 1979 (written by John Pocsik)
Muvovum, 1983
Children of Fire, 1987
Some works for Marvel Comics:
X-men for Ethiopia, 1985 (written by Alan Moore)
Cage, 2002 (written by Brian Azzarello)
Some works for Penthouse Comix
Gone Fishin, 1995
Penthouse gags, 1995
Denz, 1996 (written by Jan Strnad)
Some works for Dark Horse:
Hellboy Makoma, 2005 (written by Mike Mignola)
Conan, 2007 (written by Timothy Truman)
Haunt of Horror Lovecraft, 2008
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