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Post by profh0011 on Dec 11, 2020 18:38:19 GMT -5
"The Raven""The Oval Portrait""Shadow"
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Post by badwolf on Dec 12, 2020 22:46:32 GMT -5
Even though I know he'd been working for a long time, I had no idea he was 80. I guess the only photos I'd seen of him were from when he was younger.
Corben was another one of those artists whose style I didn't like at all when I was younger (with the exception of a much less stylized image that I probably can't post here). I just couldn't get my head round it. But I do love it now and have been collecting him the last few years. I've got the Creepy hardcover and one of the Den books, and his Lovecraft collection.
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Post by Ozymandias on Dec 15, 2020 9:13:54 GMT -5
I also thought he was younger. Looks like he started at almost 30.
"while he ultimately did work for DC and Marvel and other houses, it was always a matter of them publishing what Corben did as opposed to him trying to do what they published" so true. This is my most expensive buy ever:
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Post by berkley on Feb 25, 2021 3:33:49 GMT -5
Just came across this thread looking for something else. Sorry I missed it at the time, but just wanted to briefly say somethng in appreciation of Corben and his work. The first thing I ever saw was a Den instalment in Heavy Metal #5 or thereabouts. I was an adolescent, so it was certainly the nudity and hyper-sexuality that made the most immediate impression, but once that was assimilated, there was so much more to fascinate: the ERB-with-a-twist story premise, the exuberant play of the artwork with colour, form, and texture, ... whatever you might think of Corben's work, I thnk it's undeniable that he always stayed true to himself and his personal creative drives.
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Post by profh0011 on Feb 25, 2021 9:04:51 GMT -5
I've got what is apparently a reprint of the BLOODSTAR book. Same cover painting, but different "design". Here's a silly question... was BLOODSTAR originally in color? My edition is in B&W.
Of course, I know some of Corben's work was originally done in B&W, and then he colored it later on (this happened with some of his Poe stories).
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Post by MDG on Feb 25, 2021 9:11:22 GMT -5
I've got what is apparently a reprint of the BLOODSTAR book. Same cover painting, but different "design". Here's a silly question... was BLOODSTAR originally in color? My edition is in B&W. Of course, I know some of Corben's work was originally done in B&W, and then he colored it later on (this happened with some of his Poe stories). I'm pretty sure only the cover was color and the interior illustrations were B&W in the original edition.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 25, 2021 10:43:23 GMT -5
I read Bloodstar in serialized form in Heavy Metal. Didn't know it had been an OGN first... making my respect for Corben even greater!
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