Goodbye Richard Corben
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- A hastily put together appreciation of Richard Corben, who passed away Dec. 2nd, at age 80.
Check out these two other tributes to Corben:
Ojisan's World: A Tribute to Richard Corben (R.I.P. my Art Hero)
• A Tribute to Richard C...
Comickkrakk's R.I.P. Gore (1940-2020)
• R.I.P. Gore (1940-2020)
Corben was STUPENDOUS. Thanks for nice tribute.
This is terrible news, i am gutted to hear of his death. His work was so unique, he stood out among the host of artists creating fantasy and sci fi art . R.I.P. Richard.
This really was a tough death to hear about.
One of the greatest cartoonists and illustrators of Heavy Metal magazine and beyond. The DEN saga will remain an absolute masterpiece. Goodbye master and thanks for the emotions you gave me in all your works.
Fabio from Italy
Well said.
Corben is only gone from this world....he followed the Loc-Nar through the portal to Neverwhere and from now on lives as Den. Farewell Mr. Corben!
I like your way of thinking about it!
Richard Corben and his wife Donna were really nice to me in our one-day visit to his house. I'd been writing to him since 1973, thanks to Alex Toth. He was humble and a gentleman. He drew the heroic figure better than anyone. I'm so glad to have met him and greatly saddened that he has passed away.
That's amazing you got a chance to get to know him. I had not heard of anyone meeting him before!
He was my favorite ARTIST since 1979! 😈R.I.P.😈
I’m guessing that means you discovered him in Heavy Metal?
@@sleepyreader666 the french version MÈTAL HURLANT 😈👹😈
@@metalfriend6110 Nice. I have just one copy of Metal Hurlant...it feels a bit better than our US version.
MINE TOO, DAMMIT'!
Guys a legend . RIP
Very cool collection, he will be missed. I have took much inspiration from him. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks for stopping by. I was very glad to find your video...you did a great job sharing the importance of his work.
Wonderfully strange stuff!! I’m definitely going to read lots of Corben. I’ve only read one or two stories. Awesome faces, beautiful colors. Mag the Hag lol! Thanks for this great tribute. ☕️☕️
You should definitely check out more Corben. It will really grow on you, heh.
Corben, such an amazing artist and writer. A master. He'll live on forever through his art and the countless artists he inspired.
Thank you for this extensive video Sleepyreader. Very nice.
Thanks Ricard. I feel there's a good chance his reputation will grow and take it's place in the comic book history firmament, especially if someone manages to collect more of his work into nice permanent volumes...
I hope you are right. I'd definitely be interested in some new collections. For example, I'd love to get my hands on Bloodstar, but at the moment it is a bit too expensive for me. Which might just be a testament to the appreciation of Corben's work.
@@snaabras Many of the old trades are very expensive and hard to find. And as a hardback collector I’d really like to see some higher quality volumes.
You summed it up well - the Heavy Metal generation. I had so many random issues of comics just because his art was so striking.
Loved the Den segment of Heavy Metal. RIP Richard Corben, hope his soul has reached Neverwhere.
Yes, let's hope he's there!
Wow. Corben and Miyazaki. That would have been amazing. Just started watching, I’ve been thinking about Corben all day and what he’s meant to myself and comics and art in general. It’s not often that the passing of creators hits me, but this one, like Darwyn Cooke, has had quite an effect on me today. R.I.P. Gore.
Wow reading your comment made me tbink Miyazaki passed away too
@@ChaosandComics sorry about that.
@@comicKkrakK I think...that Miyazki retired?
Like Darwyn Cooke, he was a major artist who was still doing peak work when he died
totally agree, Corben and Moebius defined Heavy metal , a hugh influence for me as an artist, what a great loss.
Sadly they are both gone now...the end of an amazing era.
r.i.p. ... one of my heroes, thought he would do comics until eternity. miss him already, but his influence will live on.
Yes...I think his reputation will grow even larger with time.
Corben played the EARTH version of Den in the 1968 film he made. Fun fact
*EDIT* thanks for making this video. At this point I think yours is the only farewell Corben video so far.
There are two others that I know of...one by a channel that's new to me and one by my old youtube comics buddy ComicKkrakk. I'll add links to both in the video description.
@@sleepyreader666 thank you
Cool about Corben in the Den movie. I think ages ago I saw some fuzzy clip from that movie. Hadn't thought till just now to try searching the internet for that these days.
@@sleepyreader666 I rewatched it last night
I love his art. I'm a dork for any kind of sci fi, horror or barbarian art
I saw Corben's first comic over 20 years ago, it was a fragment of the Mutant World, published in the Polish comic book magazine Komiks-Fantastyka. We didn't have too many Western comics in Poland at that time. Corben's comic was something new, completely addictive, these colors and the post-apocalyptic world full of mutated creatures, and a beautiful woman - what more could you want? Today we have other of his comics on our market, but I still remember and miss his flagship works that I had to bring from afar. I collected Heavy Metal, which included both Den and New Tales of the Arabian Nights. At the moment I got the new French edition of Mutant World and I'm waiting for Murky World. It's a sad day for the world of comics, but I just realize how much he left behind and how great a creator he was. These are timeless works that will last for many generations and will be an inspiration for them.
So well put. He made a large and lasting contribution, which perhaps has been supported more Europe. I'd completely forgotten about Arabian Nights! There's so much to hunt down. I only read snippits of Mutant World, come to think of it.
Thanks for the great history on this person. Death only exists if the memories are not told. There, they're legacy can live on. Thanks for sharing and hopefully this video is seen/heard by many.
Thanks Brian. I hope someone manages to get most of his work back into print.
R.I.P. to another one of the greats. 😔
Very much so. One of the kings of comics.
RIP Richard Corben.😔
He will be missed.
I just got home (4:50 p.m.) and turned on my computer and saw the title of your video.
I did not know he had died, Damian.
Like yourself, I discovered him in Heavy Metal Magazine, with Den.
It's amazing how much work he did. I think he was the Jack of Kirby of the underground, even though he did do some mainstream work. I'm actually a little sad to hear that's he's dead. So little is known about the man. Oh, my Damian...
He was a figure cloaked in mystery. You could only guess as to what kind of person he was as you stumbled across his mindblowing images and stories in random comic book shops. He was doing such great work in the past ten years that I felt he deserved many more years of life and creativity.
@@sleepyreader666 he was still making beautiful art. I guess I didn't realize he was 80. He'll be missed.
@@ChaosandComics Given the consistency of his output in the past ten years, I tended to forget his age. Made news of his death more of a surprise.
RIP Richard. I first heard of him from the Heavy Metal movie.
Hopefully you were able to get ahold of the orginal Den after that...
I recently got Heavy Metal #66 (which has a Corben Den story in it) and put it aside. Now I know what I'll be reading this weekend. ... Thank you.
Definitely worth checking out. I think they usually just put a little Corben in each issue to keep his fans coming back issue after issue.
R.I.P, a great comic book artist.
Thanks Cami. I am quite sad about it.
I first read Richard Corben in those early Heavy Metal issues. Most recently was pleasantly surprised to see him doing Hellboy in Mexico. Some of my favorite was as the artist for New Tales of Arabian Nights in Heavy Metal. Great stuff.
I’ve yet to read much of those Arabian Nights stories. Ive been recollecting Heavy Metal, so hopefully I will eventually have a good run of those. I really enjoyed his brief Hellboy work.
Ho saputo della sua morte in questi giorni, sono molto triste, la mia infanzia è stata segnata da Den, Bloodstar ed altri eroi del maestro Corben, grazie Richard per le avventure uniche e fantastiche che ci hai regalato in questi anni emozionandoci e viaggiare con la fantasia a livelli unici, a livello mondiale, grazie da un tuo fans italiano che ti ha seguito nei vari decenni collezionando il materiale edito nel mio paese e custodito tuttora con cura e passione, forse un giorno ci incroceremo a MUVOVUM maestro... un giorno... R.I.P.
Agreed!
The announcement his wife posted indicated that she would be continuing to manage the sales of his art and the publication of his work, so perhaps some retrospective collections are forthcoming. Thanks for this; he did so much, it's sometimes hard to realize how exceptional the work is.
I hope so. Perhaps I didn't read close enough to tell if there was more to publish or if she was just saying people could still buy his original art...
This sucks. I discovered Richard Corben's work in his underground comics days. He was my inspiration to take up the airbrush. It is a shame his work was not more widely known, but I'm pretty sure his perfectionism and unique working style made it impossible for him to produce as much work as other comics masters. RIP.
I’m sure that slowed him down, but he still has an impressive body of work over a fifty year + timespan...the weird thing is that, at least in North America, none of it is in print while most other artists are collected over and over again in the growing book market...
Richard also created a fantastic epic cover for Meat Loaf’s cult album Bat out of Hell and less known but equally beautiful Jim Steinman’s Bad for Good. Thank you for a nice presentation and tribute to an absolute comic legend that is Richard Corben - convinced me to go and buy that Poe hardcover! Hope they will issue a hardcover of complete collected Den one day. cheers
Oh how I want that Den hardcover!
The Poe hardcover, Spirits of the Dead, is well worth your money.
A yes, the Bat out of Hell cover! I feel like he may have done a Danzig cover at some point too. And I seem to remember seeing some science fiction paperback book covers by him for a brief while. It would be great to have a hardcover coffee table book of all his miscellaneous art pieces.
@@sleepyreader666 hopefully he will get some of that well deserved treatment now that he’s passed
Corben’s coloring method was so wacky! But maybe a lazy, lazy person like me can’t fathom painting four separate images just to get one image.
That man liked hard work. Maybe even more than big bazoongas....
et meeeerrrrrdeeeee, encore un géant qui tombe, une part importante de ma vie qui s'en va......C'est pas grave, je vais aussi mourir bientôt. Les jeunes, reprenez le flambeau!
Den.... did he run around with his tackle out all the time doing the horizontal cha-cha with big bosomed alien ladies? Hmm large breasts really speak to me also!! Cool maximum bazongas going on there! Yes lots of wrinkly winkies and wobbly bits in his comics it seems! Thanks for showing and telling mate
Yup! He showed it all, let it all hang out and flop about!
Back before the internet that was especially enlightening ;)
@@sleepyreader666 haha yeah a bit of something for everyone!! He had his own style for sure
This might be the most British comment in youtube history.
@@ChaosandComics Cheers guvna
Mmmm... no hair.....big
I guess that's the way Corben saw his ideal self?
Lol. Never forgotten... sadly missed. 😞
“...interesting comic book art...” ???
You don’t like Corben's art? It’s probably only to some people’s taste.
@@sleepyreader666 Quite the opposite - more than like it i love it. I was being ironic there....
@@rewanji Whoops, I didn't quite parse what you were saying, or who you were quoting...