weird fiction, visual

[Zaharoff]

Quote Originally Posted by Stu

When I say volume 1 and volume 2 I mean the trade paperbacks with 6 (I think) issues per book. Not the deluxe omnibus editions.

Thank you.
I had been eying the deluxe.
Separately, the price seems more or less reasonable.
Together, the total makes me pause.

[Malachi_Constant]

And Then Emily Was Gone is a weird comic miniseries, collected in one TPB volume. Jon Lees is the author and Iain Laurie is the artist. It follows a crazy former police officer who believe he sees monsters, and he travels to the Orkney Islands in Scotland to search for a missing girl.

It's super weird. And cool. Check it out.

[Ibrahim]

I noticed the Rich Corben pic in the thumbnails section to the side here; the Angoulême poster. Is anyone planning to go there in January?

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

Just got the awful news of Richard Corben's death, and like with the musician Scott Walker, it stings because he was still on great form and I was still looking forward to his new work.

I think his last appearance in Heavy Metal should have been on the shelves by now, thankfully he got that finished. I gave up on the serialization and am waiting for the collected edition.
Dimwood was to be his next thing, his facebook says that he was working on the last page a while ago.
Dimwood - MuutaNet

He always experimented with animation and put them online occasionally (but nothing ever stays up for long on his official site) there's a video here of some recent works
https://www.facebook.com/Corben-Stud...3240777737358/

I heard several years ago that Fantagraphics offered to print his underground era work but Corben already had plans for that stuff. Hope more reprints will roll out because so much of it hasn't been printed since the 80s.

[miguel1984]

This sucks; I just found out about it.

Richard Corben was an artist whose work I did not enjoy at first, having only read Bigfoot, but I fell in love with his art after reading Hellboy: The Crooked Man. Mike Mignola said he loved the way Corben drew decaying landscapes and farmhouses, and he couldn't be more right; Rat God is a perfect example of this.

There is an interview with him in Heavy Metal #301 in which he talked about finishing Dimwood and mentioned another project he was working on, that, sadly, was not to be; still, I am really glad he finished Murky World, Dimwood and the remastered edition of Mutant World and Son of Mutant World, and also that he won the Angoulême Grand Prix before dying.

What impressed me the most about him is that he was in peak form even at 80 and didn't show any signs of slowing down. In fact, in that same interview, he said that retirement was not an option for him and that he would keep on working until dropping dead. Still, the fact that he died while still going strong instead of having to suffer a long illness like Bernie Wrightson had to makes me feel a kind of relief.

[bendk]

Quote Originally Posted by miguel1984

This sucks; I just found out about it. Richard Corben was an artist whose work I did not enjoy at first, having only read Bigfoot, but I fell in love with his art after reading Hellboy: The Crooked Man. Mike Mignola said he loved the way Corben drew decaying landscapes and farmhouses, and he couldn't be more right; Rat God is a perfect example of this.

I am a big fan. I used to search out his work even in individual titles that I didn't care for just for his art. I've read Crooked Man and Rat God. You're right, he was still in top form. If you haven't already, get ahold of Hellboy in Mexico. It is one of my favorites. He did some great work on Poe and Lovecraft as well. The Ragemoor miniseries was enjoyable. There is still quite a bit of his work in Creepy that I still haven't seen.

Thank you for all of your work, Mr. Corben. RIP

[miguel1984]

Quote Originally Posted by bendk

Quote Originally Posted by miguel1984 This sucks; I just found out about it. Richard Corben was an artist whose work I did not enjoy at first, having only read Bigfoot, but I fell in love with his art after reading Hellboy: The Crooked Man. Mike Mignola said he loved the way Corben drew decaying landscapes and farmhouses, and he couldn't be more right; Rat God is a perfect example of this. I am a big fan. I used to search out his work even in individual titles that I didn't care for just for his art. I've read Crooked Man and Rat God. You're right, he was still in top form. If you haven't already, get ahold of Hellboy in Mexico. It is one of my favorites. He did some great work on Poe and Lovecraft as well. The Ragemoor miniseries was enjoyable. There is still quite a bit of his work in Creepy that I still haven't seen. Thank you for all of your work, Mr. Corben. RIP

I read most of his later work but I also have to check some of his earlier stuff. His Edgar Allan Poe adaptations are masterful and The House on the Borderland is a jewell, but Rat God is my favorite.

[miguel1984]

This is a great horror short film called Intruders from 2014, based on two short wordless comics by Al Columbia and Uno Moralez.

Intruders on Vimeo

And this is The Web, released in 1987, based on Gormenghast.

The Web on Vimeo

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

https://www.factualopinion.com/the_f...rben-cast.html
Found this podcast enjoyable, haven't listened to it in ages, it's quite funny and I've always admired Joe McCulloch; they did a great episode about Eros Comix a few years ago.
And I didn't know this Slow Death revival was a thing
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/...ary-slow-death

[miguel1984]

This is a beautiful remembrance Jan Strnad wrote in honor of Richard Corben:

Jan Strnad Remembers A Life With Richard Corben