Robert Steven Rhine
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Robert Steven Rhine is an American writer
and actor
. He is also the founder, publisher, and "Deaditor-In-Chief" of Girls and Corpses, a horror/comedy magazine.
He began working in comic book
s as a contributing writer for Cracked and Insidious Tales. Rhine's first solo comic book, Selected Reading From Satan's Powder Room (Asylum Press) quickly sold out and was followed up by a second helping titled CHICKEN SOUP FOR SATAN also distributed by Diamond. Alan Katz (producer of HBO's Tales From The Crypt
) commented, "Gross putrid and downright offensive. Higher praise just doesn't exist!" A third comic book in the series, Satan Gone Wild, premiered in New Orleans on Halloween and also sold out. The success of these "humor-rific" comic books led to Rhine's 280 page, color graphic novel Satan's 3 Ring Circus of Hell (Asylum Press). 43 of the top comic book horror artists in the industry (including William Stout
, Tim Vigil
, Eric Pigors
, John Cassaday
, Hilary Barta
, Alex Pardee
, Alan M. Clark
and D.W. Frydendall) contributed to the graphic novel, illustrating 43 twisted Rhine tales. Rhine has also written for National Lampoon magazine.
and winner at Worldfest
Houston. The film sold to Universal
's Hypnotic Films. Rhine also wrote, produced, directed and starred in the epic/cult/satire Road Lawyers and Other Briefs, winner at the Chicago, New York, Houston, and Australian film fests (distributed by A.I.P.).
Rhine wrote and directed an animated television pilot Sickom, animated by Frank Forte. It was bought by Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation and premiered at Comic-Con San Diego for an audience of over a thousand. The dark comedy series, about a serial killer
's home life, was included on Spike & Mike's DVD Unprotected and toured animation festivals around the world.
Before becoming a full time fiction, screenplay and comic book writer, R.S. Rhine worked for a decade as a unit publicist for Universal Studios
, TriStar Pictures
, DreamWorks
and Imagine Entertainment
on such features as: The Craft
, MouseHunt, Hush, Tremors
, Problem Child
, Double Team and Toy Soldiers, amongst others. He has worked as an entertainment publicist, book publicist, film advertising copywriter, segment producer for PM Magazine
and also worked for CNN
.
for director Joe Dante
's "The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
" ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios
. Coincidentally, Rhine met Rod Serling several times when he was ten years old, who was an acquaintance of his family.
Rhine's first fiction collection, Me Brain Escape Me (Sun Dog Press) was heralded by Publishers Weekly
as "a successful mix of humor and horror." Metro London was "fascinated with the blurred boundary between reality and the darkest recesses of imagination... doused in gallons of acid black humor." Writer William F. Nolan
(author of Logan's Run
and 60 books) called Rhine, "a bold new writer with powerhouse ideas and the talent to bring them to life."
He is also included in the Bram Stoker Award
winning anthology Dark Delicacies – Original Tales of Terror and The Macabre alongside Clive Barker
and Ray Bradbury
with his story "The Seer".
In 2005, R.S. Rhine won first prize in the World Horror Con Dark Fiction Contest for his story "Propeller Boy." Rhine also received the Herman M. Swafford Fiction Award for his story "Andros
" in 1997. Rhine's book "Satan's 3-Ring Circus Of Hell" took top honors at the 2007 DIY Book Awards.
Robert Rhine has been a frequent guest on Playboy Radio
(Sirius/XM), Spice Radio (Sirius/XM), Fangoria Radio, The Jay Thomas Show (Sirius/XM) and dozens of radio shows across the country. TV appearances include: G4 Attack Of The Show, G4 Electric Playground, Current TV/Infomania, American Horrors, Have I Got News for You
(BBC England), RTL TV (Germany
), Allez LA (France
). Robert Rhine has also been featured in: MAXIM Magazine, Bizarre Magazine (6 times), LA WEEKLY
, San Francisco Weekly, STUFF
, Total Guitar
, Entertainment Weekly
, The Star
, Heavy Metal
, Penthouse Magazine, FHM Magazine, Hustler
and many others.
The Huffington Post
voted Rhine's magazine Girls and Corpses: The "Most ridiculous magazine" of all time.
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
and actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
. He is also the founder, publisher, and "Deaditor-In-Chief" of Girls and Corpses, a horror/comedy magazine.
Written work
Rhine has sold fiction to over one hundred magazines and the published anthologies.He began working in comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
s as a contributing writer for Cracked and Insidious Tales. Rhine's first solo comic book, Selected Reading From Satan's Powder Room (Asylum Press) quickly sold out and was followed up by a second helping titled CHICKEN SOUP FOR SATAN also distributed by Diamond. Alan Katz (producer of HBO's Tales From The Crypt
Tales from the Crypt (TV series)
Tales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO's Tales from the Crypt, is an American horror anthology television series that ran from 1989 to 1996 on the premium cable channel HBO...
) commented, "Gross putrid and downright offensive. Higher praise just doesn't exist!" A third comic book in the series, Satan Gone Wild, premiered in New Orleans on Halloween and also sold out. The success of these "humor-rific" comic books led to Rhine's 280 page, color graphic novel Satan's 3 Ring Circus of Hell (Asylum Press). 43 of the top comic book horror artists in the industry (including William Stout
William Stout
William Stout is an American fantasy artist and illustrator with a specialization in paleontological art. His paintings have been shown in over seventy exhibitions, including twelve one-man shows. He has worked on over thirty feature films, doing everything from storyboard art to production design...
, Tim Vigil
Tim Vigil
Timothy B. Vigil is a comic book artist, mostly working in the horror/adult genre. His main graphic novel Faust was adapted by Brian Yuzna as the 2001 movie Faust: Love of the Damned. The followup Faust: Book of M, was nominated for the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative...
, Eric Pigors
Eric Pigors
Eric Pigors is an American artist based in Valencia, California mostly known for his 'Toxic Toons' - cartoons of subjects such as zombies and vampires...
, John Cassaday
John Cassaday
John Cassaday is an American comic book artist and writer, born in Fort Worth, Texas and currently residing in New York City. He is known for having a high level of precision and realism in his work....
, Hilary Barta
Hilary Barta
Hilary Barta is an American comic book writer and artist.-Biography:Barta was born on June 17, 1957. His first comics work came in June 1982, when he helped legendary Marvel inkers Al Milgrom, Joe Sinnott and Sal Trapani provide inks for the pencils of Don Perlin on The Defenders #108...
, Alex Pardee
Alex Pardee
Alex Pardee is a freelance artist, apparel designer, and a writer born in Antioch, California, USA who is best known for illustrating The Used's album artwork...
, Alan M. Clark
Alan M. Clark
Alan Marshall Clark is an author and an artist who is best known as the illustrator and book cover painter of many pieces of horror fiction. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for his 2005 book Siren Promised .He has won the World Fantasy Award for his illustrations ,...
and D.W. Frydendall) contributed to the graphic novel, illustrating 43 twisted Rhine tales. Rhine has also written for National Lampoon magazine.
Film work
Rhine wrote, produced and starred in the filmed pilot, Vinnie & Angela's Beauty Salon and Funeral Parlor, Grand Prize winner (Gold Cineman) at the Australian International Film FestivalAustralian International Film Festival
The Australian International Film Festival, or AIFF, was a Melbourne festival held in 2006.An earlier festival with this name was renamed to Canberra International Film Festival.- Awards :...
and winner at Worldfest
WorldFest
WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival is an annual film festival, dedicated to various types of independent films, held in Houston, Texas.-History:...
Houston. The film sold to Universal
Universal Studios
Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....
's Hypnotic Films. Rhine also wrote, produced, directed and starred in the epic/cult/satire Road Lawyers and Other Briefs, winner at the Chicago, New York, Houston, and Australian film fests (distributed by A.I.P.).
Rhine wrote and directed an animated television pilot Sickom, animated by Frank Forte. It was bought by Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation and premiered at Comic-Con San Diego for an audience of over a thousand. The dark comedy series, about a serial killer
Serial killer
A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
's home life, was included on Spike & Mike's DVD Unprotected and toured animation festivals around the world.
Before becoming a full time fiction, screenplay and comic book writer, R.S. Rhine worked for a decade as a unit publicist for Universal Studios
Universal Studios
Universal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....
, TriStar Pictures
TriStar Pictures
TriStar Pictures, Inc. is an American film production/distribution studio and subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, itself a subdivision of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures...
, DreamWorks
DreamWorks
DreamWorks Pictures, also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC, DreamWorks Studios or DW Studios, LLC, is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming...
and Imagine Entertainment
Imagine Entertainment
Imagine Entertainment is a film and television production company founded in 1986 by director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer.Its productions include the television series 24 and Arrested Development and the films Apollo 13 , A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code .-Organization:Karen...
on such features as: The Craft
The Craft (film)
The Craft is a 1996 American supernatural teen horror film directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Robin Tunney, Rachel True, Fairuza Balk and Neve Campbell. The film's plot centers on a group of four teenage girls who pursue witchcraft and use it for their own gain...
, MouseHunt, Hush, Tremors
Tremors (film)
Tremors is a 1990 American science fiction horror comedy film directed by Ron Underwood, based on a screenplay by Brent Maddock and S. S. Wilson, and starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross and Reba McEntire...
, Problem Child
Problem Child (1990 film)
Problem Child is a 1990 American comedy film. It stars John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck, Gilbert Gottfried, Jack Warden, Michael Richards and Michael Oliver. The film was directed by Dennis Dugan.-Plot:...
, Double Team and Toy Soldiers, amongst others. He has worked as an entertainment publicist, book publicist, film advertising copywriter, segment producer for PM Magazine
PM Magazine
PM/Evening Magazine was a television series with a news and entertainment format. It was syndicated to stations throughout the United States...
and also worked for CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
.
Acting
Rhine has appeared in over a two dozen plays (including two L.A. premieres), television, features, print and commercials. Rhine also portrayed Rod SerlingRod Serling
Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling was an American screenwriter, novelist, television producer, and narrator best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen and helped form...
for director Joe Dante
Joe Dante
Joseph "Joe" Dante, Jr. is an American film director and producer of films generally with humorous and science fiction content....
's "The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, more commonly known as Tower of Terror, is a drop tower thrill ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios , Disney California Adventure Park, Tokyo DisneySea and Walt Disney Studios Park . It is based upon the television show The Twilight Zone...
" ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Disney's Hollywood Studios is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort. Spanning 135 acres in size, its theme is show business, drawing inspiration from the heyday of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s...
. Coincidentally, Rhine met Rod Serling several times when he was ten years old, who was an acquaintance of his family.
Directing
He directed the animated The Fabulous Miss Wendy music video Crazy Fucked Up Bitch.Reception, awards, and recognition
Robert Steven Rhine (also known as "Corpsy") Is the founder Publisher/Deaditor-In-Chief of Girls and Corpses Magazine.Rhine's first fiction collection, Me Brain Escape Me (Sun Dog Press) was heralded by Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly, aka PW, is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents...
as "a successful mix of humor and horror." Metro London was "fascinated with the blurred boundary between reality and the darkest recesses of imagination... doused in gallons of acid black humor." Writer William F. Nolan
William F. Nolan
William Francis Nolan is an American author, who wrote stories in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He is best known for coauthoring the novel Logan's Run, with George Clayton Johnson. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1976 horror film Burnt Offerings which starred Karen Black and...
(author of Logan's Run
Logan's Run
Logan's Run is a novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Published in 1967, it depicts a dystopic ageist future society in which both population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by requiring the death of everyone reaching a particular age...
and 60 books) called Rhine, "a bold new writer with powerhouse ideas and the talent to bring them to life."
He is also included in the Bram Stoker Award
Bram Stoker Award
The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing. The awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA...
winning anthology Dark Delicacies – Original Tales of Terror and The Macabre alongside Clive Barker
Clive Barker
Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
and Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
with his story "The Seer".
In 2005, R.S. Rhine won first prize in the World Horror Con Dark Fiction Contest for his story "Propeller Boy." Rhine also received the Herman M. Swafford Fiction Award for his story "Andros
Andros
Andros, or Andro is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago, approximately south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . Its surface is for the most part mountainous, with many fruitful and well-watered valleys. The area is...
" in 1997. Rhine's book "Satan's 3-Ring Circus Of Hell" took top honors at the 2007 DIY Book Awards.
Robert Rhine has been a frequent guest on Playboy Radio
Playboy Radio
Playboy Radio is a radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio. Playboy Radio was originally launched on XM Satellite Radio in September 2002. Included were programs such as Night Calls Radio, originally hosted by adult film star Juli Ashton and Playboy TV star Tiffany Granath...
(Sirius/XM), Spice Radio (Sirius/XM), Fangoria Radio, The Jay Thomas Show (Sirius/XM) and dozens of radio shows across the country. TV appearances include: G4 Attack Of The Show, G4 Electric Playground, Current TV/Infomania, American Horrors, Have I Got News for You
Have I Got News for You
Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been broadcast since 1990, currently the BBC's longest-ever running television panel show...
(BBC England), RTL TV (Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
), Allez LA (France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
). Robert Rhine has also been featured in: MAXIM Magazine, Bizarre Magazine (6 times), LA WEEKLY
LA Weekly
LA Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized "alternative weekly" in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Editor/Publisher Jay Levin and a board of directors that included actor-producer Michael Douglas...
, San Francisco Weekly, STUFF
Stuff
Stuff, a slang term may refer to: items, things, or matter. Stuff may also refer to:*Stuff , woven cloth or fabric, usually woolen *Stuffing, a substance which is often placed in cavities of food items...
, Total Guitar
Total Guitar
Total Guitar is a monthly magazine based in the United Kingdom. The magazine is the best selling guitar magazine in Europe.The magazine is owned by Future Publishing, who publish many other magazines ranging from drums and video games to mountain bikes and knitting magazines.Total Guitar regularly...
, Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
, The Star
The Star
The Star may refer to:* The Star , a 2002 Russian film* The Star , a 1952 Bette Davis film* The Star , a casino in Sydney, Australia* The Star , a Thai singing competition reality television show....
, Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal (magazine)
Heavy Metal is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica. In the mid-1970s, while publisher Leonard Mogel was in Paris to jump-start the French edition of National Lampoon, he discovered the French...
, Penthouse Magazine, FHM Magazine, Hustler
Hustler
Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine aimed at men and published in the United States. It was first published in 1974 by Larry Flynt. It was a step forward from the Hustler Newsletter which was cheap advertising for his strip club businesses at the time. The magazine grew from a shaky start to...
and many others.
The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is an American news website and content-aggregating blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring liberal minded columnists and various news sources. The site offers coverage of politics, theology, media, business, entertainment, living, style,...
voted Rhine's magazine Girls and Corpses: The "Most ridiculous magazine" of all time.