Richard Corben, cartoonist pillar of "Metal Hurlant", is dead

Extract from Ratgod and self-portrait by Richard Corben -

He "is certainly the artist who" invented ", by playing with kinds of layers, the comic in 3 dimensions.

He added volume to a medium that had always done without ”, said of him the French Indian editor Fershid Bharucha in 2013 to our comic strip journalist Olivier Mimran.

The master of fantasy Richard Corben, Grand Prix of the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2018, died at the age of 80 on December 2 “following surgery”, his family announced this Thursday on Facebook.

Born in 1940, graduated in 1965 from the Kansas City Art Institute, the designer and screenwriter cut his teeth in American underground comics with his anthology series Fantagor.

In 1975, he sent his work to the beginner

.

He will make the heyday of the cult magazine alongside Mœbius, Philippe Druillet and Jean-Pierre Dionnet, notably with the Den series.

From "Métal Hurlant" to "Heavy Metal"

Richard Corben then continued his activity for

, the American version of the French magazine.

In 1976, his adaptation of RE Howard's short story in

foreshadows graphic novels.

He collaborates on

with Bruce Jones,

with Harlan Ellison,

,

Jeremy Brood and

with Jan Strnad.

In the 2000s, he worked for all publishing houses like Vertigo (

with Brian Azzarello), Marvel Comics (

, always with Azzarello,

with Garth Ennis) or DC Comics (Swamp Thing) .

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