Corben is certainly in the top league with the other grandmasters, like Moebius, Otomo, Miyazaki, Segrelles and Bilal. They are the "creme de la creme" of comic art and only very few get even close to their aesthetic niveau and strength of expression. Corbens characters are pretty flat personalities but his masterful play with forms and textures more than makes up for that.
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Corbens characters are pretty flat personalities...
Interesting point, and it rings true to me. My sense is that he liked the "pulp" genre, and was perfectly happy sticking with it for the most part.
Judging by his Bedetheque résumé, it doesnt look like he illustrated for other people much, if at all. That could have been interesting, though...
My sense is that he liked the “pulp” genre
I think so too, considering that right after sci-fantasy, cheap horror story/movie style scenarios are what he always went back to.
Love this!
