ROWLF! Examining RICHARD CORBEN'S Masterpiece with GEOF DARROW.

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[@donzakrzewski6325]

The dialogue spoken by the mutant soldiers in “Rowlf” is Esperanto, an “international language” created in 1887 by Polish ophthalmologist L.L. Zamenhof.

[@johnpmolloy9032]

I thought so!!

[@jikorijo4516]

Rowlf, the comic Hayao Miyazaki (Yes, that Hayao Miyazaki!) wanted to turn into a film. I hope to finally read this story if Dark Horse reprints it for their Corben Library series.

[@markw110]

I hate to name drop...but it's not like he was the most famous guy in the world, BUT I was talking to the director Nick Zedd once...he said Corbens Rowlf was his favorite comic

[@vidminer]

Geof mentions Corben's landscape's similarity to Giraud's in Blueberry. Please please please 🙏 do a page by page of some Lt. Blueberry with Geoff! You've done lots of Moebius (although there's always room for more!) but no Blueberry. With Giraud it's like getting 2 or 3 artists for the price of one. (And I'm dreaming of a 'western landscapes in comics' zine so you could do some of my homework for me at the same time...)

[@bobblehead67]

Great episode, but I got stuck trying to imagine what Moebius's Peanuts would look like!

[@larrytodd]

Yeah, Corben came out of the fanzine subculture, which, in 68, Vaughn had superbombed several of the better fanzines and created the main thrust of his work in summer of 68. When l got back to school in fall of 68, l was amazed at the abundance of new work herd done; particularly cobalt 60. We went to the st. Louis WorldCom in 69, with Jefff flying in from NYC, and Corben from KC, drove up with some ERB derived stuff, tiny detailed airbrush art on porcelain plates, and we met him...he was a shy young guy with a classic nerdishness about him.

[@HansRickheit]

By sheer chance, I just happened to buy the August 1981 issue of Heavy Metal with a great interview of Richard Corben with lots of pictures of his painting/drawing processes and sculptures that he used for lighting reference.That would be a great subject for a future video.

[@danaandra9735]

The original printing of ROWLF was in the fanzine VOICE OF COMICDOM #`16 & 17, printed 8.5 x 11 on nice paper. VoC #16 has a beautiful wrap-around cover by Corben featuring Rowlf.

[@danaandra9735]

It was preceded by TALES FROM THE PLAGUE, published in WEIRDOM #13, which was later reprinted as an underground comic and as a glossy 8.5 x 11 zine-style mag.

[@russworks2882]

@@danaandra9735 Corben's Monsters Rule was maybe even earlier from 1968 back when Voice of Comicdom ( # 12-15) was a newspaper-sized tabloid.

[@danaandra9735]

@@russworks2882 Actually, it was never a newspaper-sized tabloid. It was always a photo-offset zine, but yes, MONSTERS RULE preceded TALES OF THE PLAGUE.

[@russworks2882]

@@danaandra9735 Thanks for the clarification; I don't own any of these (sure wish I did though) and I remembered Monsters Rule as being in a newspaper strip serial format.

[@bechtholdillustrator9378]

you guys got such a good chemistry.Just recently watched the interview with Geof,looking toward to this.

[@dwsippel]

So cool to hear Geof talk about the latest Shaolin Cowboy as one of his best. I am a new fan to Mr. Darrow; what an insightful, endearing gentleman. I was blown away by the latest Shaolin CB and have been picking up his previous works.

[@peterkowalchick8520]

Another fantastic video with Uncle Geof! I'll take as many as you can give us. Please come to Phoenix Fan Fusion in early June. I'd love to see Marshal Law, Stickboy, more Lapham, anything by Ben Marra, and the Quitely Authority issues on the channel, please and thank you.

[@davelanciani-dimaensionx]

I also took that book out constantly ("Make your Own Comics...), and I was fascinated by the Corben art that was included. It was my favorite art in the whole book. I never realized the pages were mostly from Rowlf.

[@XAVIERCUERVO]

welcome back uncle Geof

[@fstgeorge]

You guys always knock it out the park, but having Mr. Darrow on board for this breakdown was a real treat! So cool! Would love to see him come back to give his take on some other seminal comic work. I know Frank Miller and Alan Moore don't do interviews as much, especially Mr. Miller, but I hope someday they agree to join up with you both! The Kayfabe posse keeps growing!

[@evanlindsey1100]

When it was mentioned that this had become a werewolf story, I was immediately reminded of Peter David's Howling Mad, about a wolf that gets bitten by a werewolf, and transforms into a man every full moon. Still, this was pretty informative. Keep up the good work.

[@ch00lz]

Sublime. What a great story, the art of course is inspired. Great to see uncle Geoff relaxed and comfortable, he's a funny guy.

[@michaelbernth6780]

Rowlf was the first Corben comic I read. I think I must have been around 12 years old and it totally blew my mind. It’s still on of my favorite Corben stories.

[@snoo333]

first time viewer. this was nice. i have large screen tv so I get to see more of the comic. love the commentary. thank you

[@MalditoMendoza]

I love how Geof Darrow's room looks pretty much like a Geof Darrow background. It's always great to hear so much love for Corben from his colleagues. He's been my favorite comic artist since I saw a few Den pages on a Spanish Heavy Metal equivalent when I probably was like 11 or 12, but always had to defend him in front of my friends who read comics 'cause they thought he was just weird.

[@andersbrnserud6692]

I love Moebius' "Peanuts".

[@abababaTV]

Richard Corben is one of the greatest artist of All time !!!!

[@ES_Glenn]

Oh Lord, I'm snagging that Shaolin Cowboy the minute I land in The States!

[@ja_no]

59:45 Ralph Kendall by Arturo del Castillo. I know the exact sequence Mr. Darrow is talking about from a different book about comics, probably from around the same time. Everyone used the same sources, I guess!

[@russworks2882]

Rowlf originally appeared in two issues of a fanzine called Voice of Comicdom, magazine sized and offset, so it's not as dark or obscured as the underground. We need a quality black and white reprint that would include the two beautiful wraparound color covers he did at the time.

[@JorgeVelezMusic]

This was great. Thanks!

[@scottruhl4710]

This was so much fun!

[@chriskewley4304]

Just wanted to add in case Heavy Metal Magazine is easier to obtain than other imprints, Rowlf ran (in colour) from November 79 to January 80. Only half hour into the video so im not sure if you touch on this

[@larrytodd]

Late 60s Corben was spending quite a bit of time at a local dojo studying the karate moves, making 8mm films of them,taking these home and going thru them frame by frame. Also noteworthy were the jiggly breasts of a running girl in pencil animations he did for his big film project, Neverwhere(1969)

[@thegurch7313]

Richard Corben died? I only found out when it was mentioned here...oooh boy ...feel quite saddened. :(

[@Aalborg42]

Have my copy of Rowlf right here.. In Danish and from 1977 .. i bought it in the 90'ies for about $8.. and being from Denmark I sadly know all about Barnyard Buddies.. believe me.. you do not want to watch it 😞

[@thecomicshop]

Uncle Geof is the best Human on Earth.

[@hughgilmore5910]

The demon language is Esperanto.

[@M_Campbell]

The Corben directed short mentioned here 1:05:48. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gH6WmZ16lLxjr6s

[@_Antonius_]

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