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Rat God: Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Autor Richard Corben
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 noi 2025

Descoperim în Rat God o structură narativă care onorează tradiția horror-ului de atmosferă, unde trecutul întunecat al unei comunități izolate este scos la iveală printr-o căutare obsesivă. Richard Corben, un maestru incontestabil al benzii desenate, ne propune o cronologie a groazei ce începe cu aroganța unui orășean pornit spre pădurile din afara Arkham-ului și culminează cu o revelație a mutațiilor ancestrale. Găsim aici o fuziune stilistică rară: teroarea cosmică specifică lui Lovecraft este grefată pe mituri ale nativilor americani, totul fiind redat prin estetica inconfundabilă a lui Corben, caracterizată prin volume groase și umbre dramatice. Cititorul care a apreciat explorarea memoriei pierdute și decorul silvic dens din Dimwood va găsi aici o atmosferă similară de izolare opresivă — dar într-un context mult mai visceral și sângeros. Această lucrare marchează o rafinare a stilului pe care Corben l-a exersat în Creepy Archives Volume 11 sau în colaborările sale pentru Hellboy Omnibus Volume 2, păstrând acea fascinație pentru grotesc și supranatural. Un element de distincție major este includerea adaptării „The Rats in the Walls”, oferind posibilitatea de a compara versiunea brută, alb-negru, cu cea color, demonstrând versatilitatea artistului în manipularea stării de spirit a cititorului. Este o experiență de lectură intensă, susținută de cele 184 de pagini integral ilustrate, care transformă teroarea literară a lui H. P. Lovecraft într-un coșmar vizual tangibil.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781506740096
ISBN-10: 150674009X
Pagini: 184
Ilustrații: 184
Dimensiuni: 213 x 286 x 21 mm
Greutate: 1.13 kg
Editura: Penguin Random House Group
Colecția Darkhorse
Seria Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Locul publicării:United States

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Recomandăm această carte colecționarilor de romane grafice care caută o interpretare matură și vizuală a mitologiei Cthulhu. Cititorul câștigă nu doar o poveste originală semnată de Richard Corben, ci și o piesă rară de arhivă prin adaptarea „The Rats in the Walls”. Este amestecul perfect de folclor american și horror clasic, servit într-un format hardback de calitate superioară, ideal pentru fanii genului macabru.


Descriere

Terrible things stalk the forests outside Arkham in this chilling original tale from comics master Richard Corben! An arrogant city slicker on a quest to uncover the background of a young woman from the backwoods finds horrors beyond imagining, combining Lovecraftian mutations with Native American legends. This volume also includes a foreword by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Caitlin R. Kiernan (The Red Tree, The Drowning Girl) as well as both the original black and white and the color version of the long out-of-print 'The Rats in the Walls,' a Lovecraft-penned tale adapted by Richard Corben! Collects Rat God #1 #5.

Notă biografică

Richard Corben was born in Missouri and grew up in Sunflower, Kansas, a community that worked for the Sunflower Ordinance Works, an army plant that manufactured bombs in World War II.


Corben drew comics all of his life. An early effort was a series of comics about the adventures of TRAIL, the family dog. Later, he created imitations of Tarzan and Brothers of the Spear. He also showed a keen interest in animation by turning many pads of paper into animated flipbooks.
While attending the Kansas City Art Institute, he concentrated on basic drawing and painting, developing skills that would become vital in creating his chosen realistic style. At that time, his college offered no courses for animation, but by using his father's 8 mm movie camera, Corben nevertheless produced a 5-minute animated film highlighting the labors of Heracles as his senior project.


After graduation, Corben wanted to go to New York to launch a career in comics or animation, but he was shy and timid, and put off such a drastic move. After working in construction for his father for a while, he found a local job as an artist/animator/cameraman in a Kansas City industrial film company. During this time, despite his shyness, he found a girl to marry him.
After nearly ten years at the film company, Corben felt frustrated that he really hadn't given his art career a chance. He started drawing so-called "underground" comix and fanzines at night after working a full-time job during the day. About this same time, Warren Publishing Company began a series of black-and-white horror comics, CREEPY, EERIE, and VAMPIRELLA. This was a perfect match for Corben's interests, and he drew several stories for CREEPY on speculation. Unfortunately, none of these were accepted. But the "wannabe" comic book artist persisted and even met James Warren at a science fiction convention. Finally, Warren and his editor, Bill Dubay, relented and started sending Corben scripts to draw. At last, a foothold was established in his comic career. Even with the responsibilities of a wife, a daughter and a mortgage, the young artist now felt confident enough to quit his full-time job at the industrial film company and devote all his time to drawing.


The underground comix surge spread to Europe, and requests to reprint Corben underground features began to appear. His fantasy character, DEN, was created for the American underground comic, GRIM WIT; DEN was next printed in the French METAL HURLANT, and then printed in the American HEAVY METAL. During this era, Richard and Dona started FANTAGOR PRESS, a publishing company featuring Richard's comics. Unfortunately, the business wasn't enough to support them. Next, Corben began drawing for American comics - D.C., MARVEL, DARK HORSE, and others.


Corben believed that maintaining drawing skills required constant practice. He regularly attended life drawing classes all throughout his career. He found the activity both an ongoing challenge and a source of pleasure.


His love and interest in animation continued throughout his lifetime and motivated him to create digitally animated movies he shared on his web site and Facebook page.


Richard was married for 56 years to Dona, and is the father of watercolor artist and comic book colorist, Beth. His life and love was devoted to his family and his art. He was a humble man and an extremely kind, good man.


Richard Corben died December 2, 2020.