Mutant World and Son of Mutant World by Richard Corben and Jan Strnad
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I'm a simple guy. I read "Richard Corben", I give it a like. Simple as that. He was my favourite comic artist. I literally cried when I first saw his original art at Guillermo del Toro's exhibition "En Casa con mis Monstruos" in Mexico. And I felt so sad when we lost him last year.
What corben monster art was shown??
Ed & Jim please give us some classic C.C. Beck! He really puts the cartoonist in Cartoonist Kayfabe!
I love these books. Had the original Mutant World from Catalan and the Fantagor issues of Son of Mutant World. So happy that Strnad and Corben collected and reprinted these two. Hopefully the Corben family realizes how big the audience for the old books is and they start reprinting everything!
....Bloodstar ....
There's a late photo of Corben at the drawing board working on some Dark Horse pages. He's holding a small sculpted head in one hand in front of the light while drawing with a Micron. It's gotta be all about the lighting.There are pictures of various sculpted creatures and characters he made and used in multiple stories. His earliest work at Calvin was in animation and I assume he was a Harryhausen fan.
I grew up in the cultural wasteland of Wichita in the '70s. We got comics on spinner racks or Rector's Bookstore. We drove to Clint's Books in KCMO for back issues. Once at Clint's, Richard Corben was at the checkout--and I had a full-on nerdgirl swoon! Hearing Jan Strnad lived in Wichita was real kick, too.
Stuart Ng's shop is literally heaven on Earth. I walked in and was blown away by the selection, I've been there a couple times and have easily dropped over $500 each time, and left thinking about all the gems I left behind.
Thank you so much for covering Corben! I was really hoping you would. Seeing the Den Saga as a kid was mind blowing. I could never figure out how he was making his artwork appear as if it was 3D computer art. So cool. Thanks fellas!
"Mutant World" is the first comic in my collection.
I was eight when i bought it in 1979 😈
I used to sneak into my dad's comic collection as a kid and read mutantworld, heavymetal, and his frank frazetta artbooks
Corben's work rates with the world's masters. His figures are as good as Bernini sculptures.
I wasn't aware of Corben, but you guys put him on my radar and have made
me a ravenous superfan! His work is so wild and otherworldly. I would love to release a painted comic like this one day.
I first saw Corben’s art in the Brian Azzarello story Startling Stories: Banner! Loved it ever since! RIP
Love his work, such a loss. RIP Corben…
Read through of his Marvel Max Cage mini series?? 🤓
Greetings from my 4k screen.
Nuts I thought I was the only one collecting these from bins in the wild but the kayfabe effect'll make it harder
(It's just becoming part of the sport tho) Btw on the odd chance you haven't check out Corben's Tales from the Plague, and his "The End" Punisher story with Garth Ennis flew under the radar but imo was iconic.
Looking at Corben’s female figures, is he the comic book worlds Russ Meyer?
I didn’t even know about this edition but I thanks to you I just ordered it!
Check out Corbens Comic about "a boy and his dog" ! Yoo´ll like it i am sure
Nice one! Have you guys covered the extreme Christian full color comic the Crusaders? Or, for that matter J.C. Chick tracts?
Not to shine anyone's ass, but how are you guys not getting 2 billion subscribers, man?
What countries is red room banned in?
Great clip. Informative, unpretentious and what's refreshing - apolitical. These days YTers (and others) have this annoying tendency to inject their PC crap into everything. It's as if they are seeking approval from their Establishment "masters". Such obsequious little brainwashed slaves...
I have a copy of the original SC 1982 edition shown in the clip, plus an early 90s German SC edition of SOMW - plus a very recent German integral edition with both stories. This new German version is 32 cm, i.e. considerably bigger than the two featured in the clip. In the Fantagor version the "height" of the comic is 25 cm, whereas in the new German version it is 28 cm. So did the Germans stretch the panels? Were they authorized to do it? Either way, the German album looks awesome: the paper isn't the shiny type as featured in the English-language albums, but it's nevertheless great. Germans rarely screw up things, at least when it comes to comic-books. I enjoy having two very different versions of MW: different paper, different size, different language. Considering that MW is one of the best comics of all times, I wouldn't mind have a few more...
Interestingly, the early 90s SC version of SOMW is entirely in colour. The original colour. The newly-coloured SOMW is much better though, a big improvement. There are far more empty white spaces in the old version, and the colouring is less precise, messier and aesthetically not nearly as impressive.
I grew up in the 80's but was not really aware of Corben's output until much later, and for many reasons, one of which was that I found his style unappealing and inferior to the comics that I liked by Moebius, Schuiten, Enki Bilal - those who also came out of 80's with their own uniquely distinct art styles that could not have been confused with anyone else. I also thought, and still think Corben's curiously static art and his action-oriented, at times violent but shallow-in-meaning storylines very similar to Liberatore who also worked at the same time.
If I were a Brit, I could probably compare Corben's output with Marmite - both an acquired taste. In this, he is similar with Frank Thorne and Jeffrey Catherine Jones' "IAmAge", though I do hold Jones in much higher esteem, as her linework was better than Thorne and her paintings were sometimes superior to Frazetta's. Still, I did get a Corben book (as well as a Liberatore book) as a sample of a particular artistic era in developments of comics.
One other quick observation - I feel some of the admiration for either Corben or Liberatore comes down to not being particularly informed and well-versed in the history of the comic book genre. In part because, just like Corben's manimals in the mutant world devolved from more advanced humans, so the comic book art devolved from the incredible high established by Winsor McCay with his "Little Nemo". Most Americans will likely not even know what I am talking about and might not be able to familiarize themselves with one of the most creative and talented artists credited with inventing the genre of comics. McCay established such a high artistic standard that in effect until Moebius came along, there was no one who could reach the same deliriously creative heights.
Taschen recently reissued a complete collection of Nemo (well, at least the first two volumes), but, of course, those books promptly sold out, and the volume 1 asking price is currently hovering at about $700+, so very few folks (except those who bought the book while it was still in stores) will be able to share it with their kids as it was intended.
Yes, there is no comparing Corben in both art abilities, creative stature, or sheer influence on the genre with such giants as McCay or Moebius, which makes the popularity of off-beat Corben even more surprising. That is why I chalk it down to majority of comics loves simply not being aware of better things out there! As an old adage goes, everything is known in comparison, but what comparison can there be if the prices for good editions of McCay and Moebius books push so boldly into stratosphere? In comparison, Corben's rarest books remain very affordable at somewhere between $100-$200 at most...
Still, thank you for reviewing the book!
PS. Almost forgot two other artists whose colorful art style was similar to Corben's, albeit arguably more innovative (and I think both came BEFORE Corben):
- Howard Chaykin's graphic adaptation of Alfred Bester's classic sci-fi novel "Stars my Destination" is a much higher brow conceptual piece of work that effectively busted through its genre boundaries.
- Then there is another Metal Hurlant alum Angus McKie with his "So Beautiful and so dangerous" from 1979, which is as ridiculous, as juvenile, and as colorful as any Corben's work, but still more creative in content, with a now-iconic starship... Enough said!
Cheers!
Bottom panel page 44...Sheeesh. Simple but looks better than any artist out there. Corben was one of the greatest.