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Muuta, one of Den’s Women, by SidSid Keränen (May 10, 2002)
Den’s Legacy, by SidSid Keränen (May 15, 2003)

Articles about Colors

Coloring Corben, by José Villarrubia (2002)
Coloring from the pit, by SidSid Keränen (February 9, 2005)
Coloring techniques (Flights into Fantasy), by Fershid Bharucha (1981)
Corben Draws Corben, by SidSid Keränen (January 27, 2012)
Technique, by SidSid Keränen (December 27, 2016)

Reviews

Cage [FIN] (2017) Review, by SidSid Keränen (July 3, 2017)
Calvin Company, by Plogg and John Barrick (Oct 13, 2004). Edited by SidSid Keränen (Jan. 13, 2019)
Creepy Presents Richard Corben [FIN] #1 aka Shokki [II] tekijänä Richard Corben #1, Review: Book 1, by SidSid Keränen (September 19, 2013)
Creepy Presents Richard Corben [FIN] #2 aka Shokki [II] tekijänä Richard Corben #2, Review: Book 2, by SidSid Keränen (November 11, 2014)
The Fall of the House of Usher, #1 & #2 by Richard Corben (review), by Maria Nayef (January 2013). Reserachgate
The influence of Roger Corman in Richard Corben’s The Fall of the House of Usher, by Francisco Saez de Adana (April 2013). Reserachgate

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Amberstar (1980) by Bruce Jones

THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/2/10 – Thursday’s releases, today!) BY JOE MCCULLOCH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2010 I thought of this when I heard Irvin Kershner had died, which goes to show you the psychological damage a lifetime of ...

B&W Digital Technique

The sky with stochastic gradient As for B&W Overlay Technique has Richard Corben made black line drawings for his B&W comics and shaded them with computer. Richard Corben used sometimes as a part of pictures kind of zip-a-tone...

B&W Overlay Technique

Black line original (left) with B&W overlay shades (see B&W Digital) Richard Corben has been tried practically all possible drawing techniques. As a result of all experimental work and a successful overlay color technique he has...

Bloodstar [Ariel] Introduction

Appeared in Bloodstar [Ariel] (Sept. 1979), on pg 7. Richard Corben, 38, is an artist of unusual talent. Born, raised , andeducated in Kansas City, his background includes film...

Bloodstar and the Art of Richard Corben

Bloodstar and the Art of Richard Corben Appeared in Bloodstar [Morning Star] (1976), on pg 5-8. | Introduction | Robert E. Howard | Bloodstar marks a great leap forward for the art of the comic strip through its revolutionary...

Blue Line Coloring

Blue Line Coloring In the Blue Line Coloring method (Coleur Direct in French) the artwork is produced as line art on paper, generally Bristol board. After it is photographed (or photo stated), it is printed twice: in watercolor friendly paper...

Cage [FIN]

Cage [FIN] Reviews: | Cage [FIN] | Shokki tekijänä Richard Corben: #1 (review ) | #2 (review ) | March 2017. Like. FIM 27.95. 128[+8] pages. 175x265 cm. Cover: matt color. Guts: Color. Hard Bound. Transl. Jouko Ruokosenmäki. [id] ...

Calvin Company

Calvin Company The Calvin Company Incorporated. 1105 East 15th Street, Kansas City 6, Missouri This page is created based on 2004 Yahoo discussion group messages send by Plogg and John Barrick. Texts are edited here into article form....

Color Overlay Technique

Color Overlay Technique The coloring technique for the fifteen years peroid till Den 3: Children of Fire (1987-1988) was developed by Richard Corben. The purpose of the technique was to create brightly colored comics but with a full range...

Coloring Corben

"Coloring Corben" by José Villarrubia, Baltimore 2002Here on this web site by courtesy of the author. Appeared in Max Comics: Cage [HB] Hard Bound edition. The prospect of coloring Richard Corben’s art has been a daunting one for me. Fo...

Coloring from the pit

Coloring from the pit Sources: From the Pit #1 (1994) , Solo #2 (2004) , Children of Fire #3 (1988) . Mr. Corben has tried all possible variations of drawing/painting styles for his comic stories and illustrations what you can imagine....

Coloring techniques (Flights into Fantasy)

Coloring techniques (Flights into Fantasy) Source: Flights into Fantasy (1981, by Fershid Bharucha), pgs 184-187 …The more they like your technique! Richard Corben has always had a very personal style. Earlier in his career when he w...

Corben and Cars

Corben and Cars Richard Corben bookshelf Horrible Harvey's House (1971), pg 2. The word car is believed to originate from the Latin word carrus or carrum ("wheeled vehicle"), or the Middle English word carre...

Corben Draws Corben

Corben Insight

Corben Insight by Dixie Appeared in Infinity [I] #5 (1973) . I remember the first time I ever came across a Corben strip, at The Magic Village, in Manchester; 1970. I picked up a copy of SLOW DEATH #2, ''Far out!" I cried. (We used to say...

Corben's Comeback by Sebastian Otten

How the Turtles kept Corben publishing Comic Books by Sebastian Otten, November 2018. Written for Angoulême 2019 exhibition but was later for the book. Courtesy of the author. Richard Corben was indeed a star in the 1970ies. He ...

Creepy Presents Richard Corben Variations

Creepy Presents Richard Corben Variations Creepy Presents Richard Corben is a compilation book which collects all stories Richard Corben has made for Warren's magazines Creepy and Eerie . It will not contain any Vampirella , 1984 or other...

Damsel in snowy distress

Damsel in snowy distress Red Sonja and others are suffering in teeny bikini when they have to fight in snowy environment. How's the Den Saga? Corben tends to like his characters having fun under the sun. They do not need much of garments around...

De Letra Em Letra, Vol. 3, No. 1

De Letra Em Letra, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2016) 2016. Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil. Color. 256 pgs. [issuu.com ]Pgs 216-228: Article, "O Corvo – Intertextualidade, Técnica e Tecnologia nas adaptações da Obra de Edgar Allan Poe por Richa...

Den's Legacy

Digital Comics

The list of comics Richard Corben colored digitally. Actually he does not make any comics from scratch digitally. Each and every story has a hand drawn original from where he scan and make the digital version. Comics stories after Den 3: Children...

Fantagor #1 (1st), Forewords by Richard V. Corben

Fantagor #1 (1st), Forewords by Richard V. Corben Fantagor #1 (1st print) (1970) Fall 1970. Fanzine selfpublished by Richard Corben: 8-1/2"x11". $1.50. 28[+4] pages. Cover: glossy color heavy stock. Guts: white. [oug,ober] Fantagor...

Fully Painted Comics

Fully Painted Color Comics Judas, pg 2 Wizard Wagstaff, pg 4 The Woodlik Inheritance, pg 5 The list of comics Richard Corben fully painted in color. Tarzan: "Chance Meeting!" aka "Tarzan Meets La!" (2 pgs....

Funny Book: Introduction

Richard Corben's Funny Book: Introduction by Bruce Jones 1976. Nickelodeon Press, Kansas City, MO. Hard Bound. [ober] Back to Richard Corben's Funny Book (1976) Introduction by Bruce Jones If the underground comics of the late sixties and...

Handmade Coloring

Handmade Coloring The Woodlick Inheritance. Pg 1. Color plate (CMY) The list of comics Richard Corben handmade coloring separation. In handmade coloring the black plate is done separately from colors (cyan/magenta/yellow). Some artists...

Heavy Metal the Movie (1981) Den Sequence

Den sequence in Heavy Metal the Movie (1981) Heavy Metal the Movie (1981, 1996) . Director: Gerald Potterton. Story: Corny Cole. Voices: Dan/Den - John Candy (rather big guy for a muscular hero, I must say). Queen - Marilyn Lightstone. ...

Illustrates with Wolves

Illustrates with Wolves aka Werewolves of Richard Corben Written by Leena Peltonen (© 1992 Leena Peltonen)Translated by SidSid Keränen (© 2002 SidSid Keränen)Appears here with permission of author.Appeared first time in Finnish Comic Society 's ...

Introduction to New Tales of the Arabian Nights

Appeared in New Tales of the Arabian Nights (1979) . Introduction to New Tales of the Arabian Nights by Harlan Ellison If I lucked out, and chanced to find this old dusty Moxie bottle way back up there on the last top cobwebby shelf...

Karen Gilbertson

html5 video converter by EasyHtml5Video.com v3.9.1 Karen Gilbertson, a model Crossreference: | "Eulalie" | Bruce Jones was talking in the interview in The Warren Companion [TB] (2001) , on pgs 179-180,...

Kickstarter: Mutant World and Son of Mutant World

| Updates | FAQ | Risks and challenges | A deluxe graphic novel and limited edition by Jan Strnad and Richard Corben Aug. 15, 2019 @ 08:40 PM CET Pledged for US$ 51,200 goal (Kickstarter This project will only be funded...

Mädchen, Monster, Mutationen [ENG]

Source: Phase X #4 . Fall 2007. Pgs 12-17. German language. Here translated in English by Google Translator. See the original text . Comic, Article Girls, monsters, mutations The bizarre worlds of Richard Corben By Achim Hildebrand...

Mädchen, Monster, Mutationen [GER]

Source: Phase X #4 . Fall 2007. Pgs 12-17. Atlantis. German language. See the English language translation . Comic, Artikel Mädchen, Monster, Mutationen Die bizarren Welten des Richard Corben Von Achim Hildebrand Phase X, pg ...

Masters of Comic Book Art

Masters of Comic Book Art Tradebook and Hard Bound version by Peter R. Garriock© 1978 Aurum Press Limited, 27 Floarl Street, London WC2, England (ISBN 0-89545-021-6) Richard Corben: American comic book and underground comix artist, ...

Murky World [II]! Cross References

Richard Corben tends to alter his old stories, remake them or make cross references in between. In the case of "Murky World [II]!" (2017) he made multiple connection to his other stories: The first row Den #4 (1988), lower "Murky World [II]"...

Muuta

Muuta Muuta is one of "Den's women" among Kath and the Red Queen. She's second best from Kath, a replacement while Kath is out. But Muuta is an exceptional woman of three: she appears in the Adventures of Den just once. You can find her just...

Neverwhere [Ariel], Foreword by Fritz Leiber

Neverwhere [Ariel] Den [I]: Neverwhere [Arial] (1978) A Illustrated Epic Adventure of Fantasy and Magic1) Feb. 1978. 2nd: Oct. 1978. Ariel. 9"x12". $7.95. 112[+4] pages. Story/Art/Color-Richard Corben. Cover: glossy color. Guts: glossy color...

On the Ledge by Richard V. Corben

On the Ledge by Richard V. Corben Appeared in Flinch #16 (2001) . I first read THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND many years ago. It never occured to me at the time that someday I'd be drawing the story as adapted by my good friend, Simon Revelstroke,...

Ranx #1 in New York Intro

Ranx #1 in New York Intro by Richard Corben, June 1984 Appeared in RanXerox in New York , prob. only in an American edition. It is my great pleasure to introduce this work by Tanino Liberatore and Stefano Tamburini. They have given us a mechanical...

Reflecting on 50 Years of “CREEPY” with Richard Corben

Published in Bloody Disgusting web site on September 29, 2014. By Zac Thompson Richard Corben and horror comics are synonymous with one another. This is something Dark Horse Comics knows all too well. So in celebrating...

Richard Corben Angouleme Exhibition 2019, by SidSid Keränen

Richard Corben’s current output: 292 stories, 4,598 pages Back to the main page Richard Corben has always been a highly productive artist. He has drawn all his life and it is visible in his style. To achieve correct anatomy he u...

Shokki [II] tekijänä Richard Corben

Shokki [II] tekijänä Richard Corben #2

Technique

Technique | 1988 | 1989 | 1991 | 1994 | 1998 | 2016 | 2024 | Richard Corben has been tried about everything you can imagine with coming from technique of making comics. Here's techniques he's using with his own words: 1988...

The editorial of Tungmetall #36 (1989)

The editorial of Tungmetall #36 (1989) by Horst Schröder Copyright © 1989 Horst Schröder. Appeared in Tungmetall #36 (3/89) , pages 2 & 44. Translated by SidSid Keränen (November 4, 2003). Finally. After almost a year break Tungmetall has...

The Last Voyage of Sindbad

The Last Voyage of Sindbad, or the One Thousand and Second Night Appeared in The Last Voyage of Sindbad (1988) . The publication of this volume marks the reissue of a work that had become a classic almost since its very first appearance...

The making of Ragemoor by Richard Corben

This article was published in comicmonsters.com (March 22, 2012), by Rob Caprilozzi. There was no captions. Website does not exist any more. Only on MuutaNet “Ragemoor” . Story: Jan Strand. Art: Richard Corben. B&W. Appeared first time [B&...

Werewolf (1984) Introduction

Introduction Appeared in Werewolf (1984) Hard Bound edition. I draw because it's hard for me to write. And, besides, I was never a critic. Therefore, explaining the why and the wherefore of something i...

Years & Mind Forever, versions

"Years & Mind Forever", versions 10 pgs. Appeared first time [B&W] in Eerie #87 (1978) [VERS.1]. Reprinted [B&W] in Eerie #97 (1978) [VERS.2], [B&W] in Heavy Metal Special: Richard Corben Special (1998) [VERS.2] and [B&W]...

You're a Big Girl Now, versions

"You're a Big Girl Now" versions 10[+2] pgs. Story: Bruce Jones. Color(prob. colored by overlays)/Art: Richard Corben (no signature). Go back to main page Version 1 American, the original versions: The original version...

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