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Richard Corben (born October 1, 1940) is an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in ''Heavy Metal'' magazine. He is the winner of the 2009 Spectrum Grand Master Award.〔(2009 Spectrum Grand Master Announced ) from ''Locus Online''〕 In 2012 he was elected to The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. ==Biography== Richard Corben was born on a farm〔Balfour, Brad (June 2001). "The Richard Corben Interview, Part 1". Heavy Metal #51: 6–11.〕 in Anderson, Missouri, and went on to get a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute, in 1965.〔Bharucha, Fershid (1981). Richard Corben: Flights Into Fantasy, page 26. Thumb Tack Books. ISBN 978-84-499-1949-7.〕 After working as a professional animator, Corben started doing underground comics, including ''Grim Wit'', ''Slow Death'', ''Skull'', ''Rowlf'', ''Fever Dreams'' and his own anthology ''Fantagor''.〔Bharucha, Fershid (1981). Richard Corben: Flights Into Fantasy, page 52-56. Thumb Tack Books. ISBN 978-84-499-1949-7.〕 In 1970 he began illustrating horror and science-fiction stories for Warren Publishing.〔Bharucha, Fershid (1981). Richard Corben: Flights Into Fantasy, page 92. Thumb Tack Books. ISBN 978-84-499-1949-7.〕 His stories appeared in ''Creepy'', ''Eerie'', ''Vampirella'', ''1984'' and ''Comix International''. He also colored several episodes of Will Eisner's ''Spirit''. All the stories and covers he did for ''Creepy'' and ''Eerie'' have been reprinted by Dark Horse Books in a single volume: ''Creepy Presents Richard Corben''.〔http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/20-025/Creepy-Presents-Richard-Corben-hardcover-collection.〕 The three stories he drew for ''Vampirella'' have been reprinted by Dynamite Entertainment in ''Vampirella Archives Vol. 5''.〔http://www.dynamite.net/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1606902253.〕 In 1975, when Moebius, Druillet, and Jean-Pierre Dionnet started publishing the magazine ''Métal Hurlant'' in France, Corben submitted some of his stories to them.〔Balfour, Brad (July 2001). "The Richard Corben Interview, Part 2". ''Heavy Metal'' #52: page 11.〕 He continued his work for the franchise in America, where the magazine was called ''Heavy Metal''. Also in 1975, a selection of his black-and-white underground comix stories was collected in hardcover as ''The Richard Corben Funnybook'' from Kansas City's Nickelodeon Press. In 1976 he adapted a short Robert E. Howard story in an early graphic novel, ''Bloodstar''.〔Seuling, Phil (1975). "The Fantasy Epic: Crearaphic Novel". ''Mediascene'' #16: 8–9.〕 Among the stories drawn for ''Heavy Metal'' he continued the saga of his most famous creation, ''Den'' which had begun in the short film ''Neverwhere'' (Neil Gaiman used the same title, Neverwhere, later, but the two creations have nothing common) and a short story in the underground publication ''Grim Wit'' No. 2. The saga of Den is a fantasy series about the adventures of a young underweight nerd who travels to Neverwhere, a universe taking inspirational nods from Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age, Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom and H. P. Lovecraft's horror dimensions. There, the boy becomes an enormously endowed nude muscleman who has erotic adventures in a world of outrageous dangers, hideous monsters, and buxom nude women who lustfully throw themselves at him. This story was adapted in a highly abridged form in the animated film ''Heavy Metal'', where Den was voiced by John Candy in an abbreviated adaptation that involved Corben himself that he felt was satisfactory. Corben's collaborations are varied, ranging from ''Rip in Time'' with Bruce Jones, to Harlan Ellison for ''Vic and Blood'', to the ''Den Saga'', the ''Mutant World'' titles, ''Jeremy Brood'', and ''The Arabian Nights'' with Jan Strnad. From 1986–1994 Corben operated his own publishing imprint, Fantagor Press. Among the titles Fantagor published were ''Den'', ''Den Saga'', ''Horror in the Dark'', ''Rip in Time'', and ''Son of Mutant World''. Fantagor went out of business after the 1994 contraction of the comics industry.〔"Newswatch: Comics Publishers Suffer Tough Summer: Body Count Rises in Market Shakedown," ''The Comics Journal'' #172 (November 1994), pp. 13–18.〕 Due to the sexual nature of Corben's art, it has been accused of being pornographic, a description he himself disagrees with. One notorious example was the interview he gave ''Heavy Metal'' editor Brad Balfour in 1981.〔〔Balfour, Brad (July 2001). "The Richard Corben Interview, Part 2". ''Heavy Metal'' #52: 8–14.〕〔Balfour, Brad (August 2001). "The Richard Corben Interview, Part 3". Heavy Metal #53: 8–13.〕 Corben was very dissatisfied with the interview. He felt it portrayed him as a "petty, childish, borderline psychotic oaf". He wrote a letter in retort, which was published in the September 1981 issue.〔''Heavy Metal'' vol. V, No. 6 (September 1981).〕 Corben did the cover of Meat Loaf's ''Bat Out of Hell'', Jim Steinman's, ''Bad for Good'' and a movie poster (based on a drawing by Neal Adams〔Adams, Neal (1976). ''The Neal Adams Treasury''. Pure Imagination. Page 36,〕) for the Brian De Palma film ''Phantom of the Paradise''. In addition, he provided cover art for the VHS release of the low-budget horror film ''Spookies''. In 2000, Corben collaborated with Brian Azzarello on five issues of Azzarello's run on ''Hellblazer'' (146–150) which was collected in a trade called ''Hellblazer: Hard Time''. He also adapted the classic horror story ''The House on the Borderland'' by William Hope Hodgson for DC's Vertigo imprint. In 2001, Azzarello and Corben teamed up to create Marvel's ''Startling Stories: Banner'' (a four issue mini-series exploring Doc Samson's relationship with Bruce Banner) and Marvel Max's ''Cage'' (a five issue mini-series starring Luke Cage). In June 2004, Corben joined with Garth Ennis to produce ''The Punisher: The End'', a one-shot title for Marvel published under the MAX imprint as part of Marvel's ''The End'' series. The story tells of The Punisher's final days on an earth ravaged by nuclear holocaust. Ever the independent, Corben would work with rocker Rob Zombie and Steve Niles in 2005 on a project for IDW Publishing called ''Bigfoot''. In 2007, Corben did a two issue run on Marvel Comics' surreal demon biker, ''Ghost Rider''. At Marvel's MAX imprint he has produced ''Haunt of Horror'', mini-series adapting classic works of horror to comics. The first mini-series, published in 2006, was based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe followed by a second series in 2008 adapting works by H. P. Lovecraft.〔(Corben and Lovecraft at Marvel in June ), Newsarama, March 20, 2008〕 Between 2008 and 2009 he illustrated the flashback sequences in ''Conan of Cimmeria'' #1–7, collected as ''Conan Volume 7: Cimmeria''. In 2009 he illustrated ''Starr the Slayer'' for Marvel's MAX comics imprint. Since then Corben has done more work for Marvel, DC, IDW, and most notably Dark Horse, drawing the Eisner Award–winning Hellboy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Corben」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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