Richard Corben

Richard Corben was born on a farm in Anderson, Missouri, and went on to get a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1965. 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 . In 1970 he began illustrating horror and science-fiction stories for Warren Publishing. His stories appeared in Creepy , Eerie , Vampirella , 1984 , and Comix...See more

Richard Corben was born on a farm in Anderson, Missouri, and went on to get a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1965. 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 . In 1970 he began illustrating horror and science-fiction stories for Warren Publishing. His stories appeared in Creepy , Eerie , Vampirella , 1984 , and Comix International . He also colored several episodes of Will Eisner's Spirit . In 1975, when Moebius, Druillet, and Jean-Pierre Dionnet started publishing the magazine M�tal Hurlant in France, Corben submitted some of his stories to them. He continued his work for the franchise in America, where the magazine was called Heavy Metal . In 1976 he adapted a short Robert E. Howard story in Bloodstar . In 2012 he was elected to the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. See less