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So... yeah. Found out today that Richard Corben passed away. Really sucks. He was a profound influence on younger me. His Lone Wolf covers were quite evocative, but his independent stuff blew my mind as my brother and I dug into whatever we could get our grubby paws on. It all started with a trip to the library in the early 90s and finding a copy of Vic and Blood in the "sequential art" section of the local library, and quickly descended into hunting through back issue bins everywhere we went. These were in the days before the internet, so you really had to do your detective work. Somehow or other everything led back to Heavy Metal, but no local stores would sell me any copies, bagged back issues or not. Didn't help that we'd had a big to do about comic shops selling "indecent" books and local conservative groups helping shutter a handful of local stores. In the end, it was the library once more who helped us out- we found an awesome documentary on VHS that had a whole portion on Corben's Den (set to a cool soundtrack), but then went into all sorts of craziness I wouldn't be able to track down until decades later- Bilal's Nikopol Trilogy, Jodorowsky's Metabarons, and many others I'm forgetting- I even found that documentary on Youtube once, and can't recall what it was called! Want to help me find it? Sadly a lot of his indy work is out of print, but this book is a great collection of a lot of his earlier mainstream work. Naturally I went to check Amazon, and now prices are stupid crazy. Ugh. Maybe they'll come back down or Dark Horse will reprint this. It's a great book- 300+ pages of all sorts of stories and genres, including a few early adaptations of Poe's work. Plus there's all sorts of more modern, mainstream work of his that still available- Hellboy and his original stories like Rat God, his DC horror adaptations, the totally random Marvel minis he did like Cage and Banner... there's some neat stuff out there if you look for it. I would love to see his work get republished and given more exposure. I've always wanted a copy of Rowlf, especially after finding out Hayao Miyazaki had wanted to do an animated movie about it prior to Ghibli becoming a thing. Go look it up- this was a real thing! Amazon link for when prices get reasonable again- https://amzn.to/2LmS7WJ