Awards

Richard Corben is awarded numberous of times. Here are the main awards.

Angouleme Grand Prix (Grand Prix de la ville d’Angouleme) in 2018

The Grand Prix de la ville d’Angouleme is awarded every year to a comics creator for lifetime achievement. It is the most prestigious award in French and Belgian comics, and esteemed worldwide. Corben is one of few Americans who have been honored to receive the award.

2018 Grand Prix Winner 2018: Richard Corben won the Festival’s Grand Prix 2018 after a vote that brought together 1,341 cartoonists.

Festival international de la bande dessinée, Angoulême, France

2017 Sélection officialle 2017: Rat God (2016, Dark Horse, Ed. Delirium)

Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012

Corben was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in recognition of his creative achievements with his original comic art and stories and also his artwork for several major comic publishers.

The Ghastly Awards

2014 The Ghastly Award: The Best One-Shot: Edgar Allan Poe’s Morella and the Murders in the Rue Morgue (2014, Dark Horse) ; The Nominee forBest Archival Collection: Edgar Allan Poe’s The Premature Burial (2014, Dark Horse Comics)
2013 The Ghastly Award: The Best One-Shot: Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven & The Red Death (2013, Dark Horse); The Best Artist:
Richard Corben for Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven & The Red Death (2013, Dark Horse)
2012 The Ghastly Award: The Best One-Shot: Edgar Allan Poe’s The Conqueror Worm (2012, Dark Horse); The Nominee for Best Archival Collection: Creepy Presents Richard Corben (2012, Dark Horse) ; The Nominee for Best Mini-Series: Ragemoor (2012, Dark Horse)
2009 Spectrum Grand Master: Winner!

Horror Comic Achievement Award in 2013

Horror News Network would like to honor comic artist Richard Corben for his outstanding contributions to horror comics with the 2013 Horror Comic Achievement Award. Richard Corben has been admired for his stylish yet monstrous art since working on Creepy and Eerie for Warren Publishing. While he has worked as a writer, publisher, and colorist, he is perhaps best known for his striking black-and-white illustrations. Much of his decades-long career has been drawing incredibly distinctive horror pieces. This work is so distinctive that it is often the style that is associated with horror comics. Although he has been illustrating for so many years and with many of the major publishers, such as DC, Marvel, and Heavy Metal, most of the Horror News Network readers will be more familiar with his current work with Dark Horse. A regular contributor to the modern Creepy and Dark Horse Presents, he has also recently both adapted and illustrated works by Edgar Allen Poe. Corben continues to be a leader and visionary for horror comics and his elegant depictions of horrific monsters continue to intrigue and terrify us.

Congratulations, Richard Corben! Your work has both defined and recreated horror comics in awe-inspiring ways! [see Horror News Network]

Spectrum Grand Master award in 2009

Corben received the Spectrum Award for Grand Master in recognition of his wide-spreading achievements and influence with comics, fantasy art, and illustration, for his innovations in color publishing, and his impact on comics and graphic novels. [see Wikipedia and Spectrum Grand Master]

Haxtur Awards

(Biggest Spanish Award, Salón Internacional del Comic del Principado de Asturias, Gijón, Spain – the most important prizes of Spain next to those of the Salón del Cómic de Barcelona)

Best Cover (2009). For Haunt of Horror-HP Lovecraft (2008, SPA: 2009) [see Haxtur Award]
Best Artist (2003). For Max: Cage (2000, SPA: 2003, Ed. Planeta DeAgostini) [see Haxtur Award]

The Warren Awards

1978: Best Cover Artist Award [announced in Eerie #100 (1979)]
1973: Best Artist/Writer & Special Award [announced in Creepy #60 (1974)]

2nd Annual Awards Dinner of the Academy of Comic Book Arts (1972)

As “Outstanding New Talent” [announced in Cartoonist Profiles #15 (1972), see Academy of Comic Book Arts]

1971 Comic Art Fan awards (Goethe Award)

As “Favorite Fan Artist” [announced in Graphic Story World #7 (1972)]

1971 Shazam Awards

As “Outstanding New Talent”, tie vote between Richard Corben and Kaluta [announced in Graphic Story World #7 (1972)]

President of the Japan Cultural Society trophy and C.I.N.E. Golden Eagle award for Neverwhere, 1968

Richard holding the Japan Cultural Society Trophy. For Neverwhere the Movie (1968)