COMIC ARTIST

Richard Corben

1940 - 2020

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Richard Corben (November 1, 1940 – December 2, 2020) was an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine, especially the Den series which was featured in the magazine's first film adaptation in 1981. He was the winner of the 2009 Spectrum Grand Master Award and the 2018 Grand Prix at Angoulême. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Corben has received more than 316,741 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Richard Corben is the 119th most popular comic artist (down from 114th in 2019), the 7,023rd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,876th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Comic Artist.

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  • 320k

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  • 47.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Richard Corben ranks 119 out of 226. Before him are Jean Tabary, Hal Foster, John Romita Sr., Keiko Takemiya, Masakazu Katsura, and Tite Kubo. After him are Roy Thomas, Larry Lieber, Rudolph Dirks, Ken Akamatsu, François Bourgeon, and Iginio Straffi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Richard Corben ranks 386. Before him are Osamu Watanabe, Jean-Paul Proust, Jimmy Ellis, Richard Marcinko, Pauli Nevala, and Viktor Pavlov. After him are Whitney Smith, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Robert Budzynski, Eladio Silvestre, Werner Krämer, and Roy Thomas. Among people deceased in 2020, Richard Corben ranks 418. Before him are Agathonas Iakovidis, Eddy Pieters Graafland, Reni Santoni, Samantha Fox, Donato Bilancia, and Alki Zei. After him are Doug Rogers, Tom Heinsohn, Ernst Jean-Joseph, John Lyons, Nikolai Gubenko, and Ram Vilas Paswan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Corben ranks 7,023 out of 20,380. Before him are Harve Presnell (1933), Craig Sheffer (1960), Chanel Preston (1985), John F. MacArthur (1939), John Fiedler (1925), and Nancy Wilson (1937). After him are Frederick Hovey (1868), Richard Boone (1917), Justin Long (1978), William Henry Vanderbilt (1821), George Winston (1949), and Elisha Cook Jr. (1903).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Richard Corben ranks 24. Before him are Jim Davis (1945), Richard F. Outcault (1863), Al Taliaferro (1905), Lee Falk (1911), Floyd Gottfredson (1905), and John Romita Sr. (1930). After him are Roy Thomas (1940), Larry Lieber (1931), Joe Simon (1913), Alex Raymond (1909), Les Clark (1907), and John Buscema (1927).

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