Keys

Icon Types

Color Technique Icons:

Cathegory Icons:

Nudity Icons:

Keys:

Abbreviations:

"art" equals to "Richard Corben Artbook" [1 or 2]
"cf." equals to "compare"
"FIF" equals to "Flights into Fantasy"
"itle" equals to "in the last episode" (i.e. a brief text about last episode); in the beginning of serial episodes
"tbc" equals to "to be continued"; in the end of serial episodes
"toc" equals to "table of contents"

Color Technique Icons

-- Black-and-white without additional screens (BW)
-- Tonal BW (TB)
-- BW with zipatone (BZ)
-- Two tonal (3-D) - requires special 3-D-glasses to look at
-- Color on black line (CB)
-- Black line with zipatone color (CZ)
-- Full color (CC)

Color Technique Icons: These icons tells the technique of art work. Black-and-white and color art works has divided in sub cathegories. Tonal BW is black-and-white and full color full color art work, which are screened (and separated in color case) in printing house. 3-D is two tonal artwork where red and green give artificial three dimentional effect when seeing through special 3-D-glasses. Zipatone is color work choosen and hand separated by artist. In a case of color on black line artist does first B&W art work and separately colors (sometimes colorist is somebody else than B&W artist). In a case of full color artist does art work straightly in colors.

Cathegory Icons

-- Horror (H)
-- Science Fiction & Superheroes (SF)
-- Fantasy (E)
-- Humour (G)
-- Criminal (C)
-- Western (W)
-- Present day or no particular moment of time (N)
-- Past (M)
-- Ancient times (A)
-- Prehistoric, dinosaur times (P)

Cathegory Icons: Story icons are divided in two: style and time. Styles are: Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Humour. Some stories covers several styles. There is also mentioned roughtly time: Past, Present and Future. Past has two specific sub cathegories, Ancient and Prehistoric times. Present covers also stories with no particular moment of time and cases when you cannot say it for sure. Future is of course always Science Fiction.

Nudity Icons

-- None (0)
-- Hidden or no nudity, but voluptuous girls (1)
-- A little (2)
-- Moderately (3)
-- A lot, voluptuous girls (4)
-- A lot, voluptuous girls and well hung men (5)
-- There are some stories I wanted to add before I saw them. How they look like, I cannot say.

Nudity Icons: This cathegory here is not for pornographic use. Nudity has always been critisized, but important part of Corben's art. This cathegory points out for you differencies of periods of Corben's possibilities to use it. You have to remember that Corben do not draw only nude women in his works (pay attention on icon "5").