DEN Volume 4: Dreams and Alarums

Richard Corben was born on a farm in Anderson, Missouri, and went on to get a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1965. After working as a professional animator, Corben started doing underground comics, including Grim Wit, Slow Death, Skull, Rowlf, Fever Dreams, and his own anthology Fantagor. In 1970 he began illustrating horror and science-fiction stories for Warren Publishing. His stories appeared in Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, 1984, and Comix International. He also colored several episodes of Will Eisner’s Spirit. In 1975, when Mœbius, Druillet, and Jean-Pierre Dionnet started publishing the magazine Métal Hurlant in France, Corben submitted some of his stories to them. He continued his work for the franchise in America, where the magazine was called Heavy Metal. In 1976 he adapted a short Robert E. Howard story in Bloodstar. In 2012 he was elected to the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.

Cullen Bunn is an American writer of comic books, short stories, and novels, known for his work on comic books such as Deadpool for Marvel Comics, The Damned and The Sixth Gun for Oni Press, and Harrow County for Dark Horse. His novels include the middle reader horror series Crooked Hills, and his short story work includes the anthology collection Creeping Stones & Other Stories. In 2011 Bunn was nominated for a Ghastly Award and won Broken Frontier’s Best Writer Independent Award. In 2012 he was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and an Eisner Award.