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After a short stint as a professional illustrator, Corben started doing Underground Comics in 1970 , when he started illustrating horror comics for Warren Publishing . In 1975 , when Moebius , Druillet , and Dionnet started publishing Métal Hurlant in France , Corben started submitting stories to them. He continued his work for the franchise in America, where the magazine was called ''Heavy Metal''. Among the stories drawn for ''Heavy Metal'' was one of his most famous, Den , a fantasy series about the adventures of a young underweight Nerd who travels to the other world of Neverwhere, a universe taking inspirational nods from Robert E. Howard 's Cimmeria and H.P. Lovecraft 's horror dimensions. There, the boy becomes a naked muscleman who has erotic adventures in a world of outrageous dangers, hideous monsters and buxom naked women who lustfully throw themselves at him. This story was adapted in a highly abridged form in the Animated Film , '' Heavy Metal '', where Den was voiced by John Candy . Corben was interviewed by HM editor Brad Balfour in 1981 (vol V, issues 3-5, June - August), but was very dissatisfied with the interview. He felt it portrayed him as a repressed homosexual and a "petty, childish, borderline psychotic oaf". He wrote a letter in retort, which was published in September 1981 (vol V, issue 6). His work in comics have won him some recognition, including the '' Shazam Award for Outstanding New Talent'' in 1971 , and a ''Shazam Award for Superior Achievement by an Individual'' in 1973 . Corben did the cover of Meat Loaf's '' Bat Out Of Hell ''. EXTERNAL LINKS
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