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Bikini Greats  Bikini Greats May 2006 Features Girls and Corpses
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Girls and Corpses
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Page 3 of 3 Cyn: What kinds of hate mail have you received? Anything you'd like to say to those son of a bitches?
Robert: Not too much hate mail. I wish I got more. I really don't have anything bad to say about those who oppose my ideas. I think whenever you are on the edge of creativity you will strike a nerve -- both good
and bad. If I didn't get any opposition I would feel like I was going in the wrong direction. Edgar Allen Poe, even Mark Twain had their books burned in their era. Girl and Corpses may seem like an extremely
bizarre idea, but that just because it is something new. It's comedy magazine, for heaven's sake! If you don't like the gag, turn the page, or toss your computer out the window.
Cyn: What's your stance on nature? Tree-hugger? Animal lover? Do you have any pets?
Robert: I'm not a tree hugger. But I do love animals and feel it's our duty as a higher rung of the food chain (most of the time) to look after our living creatures, great and small. Recently, I cooked fresh
crabs. If you haven’t ever had to kill something you eat, I highly recommend this for everyone. We eat living creatures all the time but we don’t fully understand or appreciate the suffering they had to go to
-- to feed us. These crabs I brought home from the seafood market clearly did NOT want to go into the pot. I fought them for ten minutes and it felt more like murder than a meal. By the way, they were delicious and I thank them for every sweet bite.
Cyn: Have you had any problems with anybody since you got into the industry? Anybody you'd like me to bash?
Robert: You can't be in show business without encountering a lot of low-lifes. It's a nasty, odious, despicable business. There are many people who take credit for what they've stolen from others. Some have even received writing awards and producing awards for projects they had no involvement in! But I think to name them here would be nonproductive. However... I will give you their first names, because
they know who they are and will suffer in eternal damnation: Mark, Glenn, Jake, Michael, may you sit on the thrown of fire, your hemorrhoids itching for eternity as your intestines are tugged out your
ass by hyenas as your are force-fed your own brains. But I’m not bitter.
Cyn: If you were invisible for a day and could spy on one person, who would it be?
Robert: You, Cyn. I'm watching you right now outside your window. Nice Brazil, by the way.
Cyn: When did you get into the whole comic scene?
Robert: Around 2000, I got started in comic books through my friend and amazing comic book artist Frank Forte. We had a booth at Comic-Con San Diego for four years and sold a ton of comic books. You can read more about our exploits on my site here: http://www.robertrhine.com/.
Cyn: Where did you first get the idea to create G&C?
Robert: I would populate my booth at Comic-Con with rotting corpses on loan from The Ed Gein Collection. Girls would always come up to our booth and want to touch and fondle the corpses and I thought... "what’s up with girls and corpses?” The idea struck me like a hammer in 2002 when I was promoting my comic book "Chicken Soup For Satan." I mean, what could be a better combination, two great tastes in one magazine! Check out our latest edition of Girls and Corpses Magazine and back
issues here: www.girlsandcorpses.com.
Cyn: What's your biggest temptation?
Robert: Cyn.
Cyn: What's your work like now compared to your earlier work?
Robert: I’m like an aged cheese. The smellier I get, the better I taste.
Cyn: What was your most embarrassing moment?
Robert: I once gave a speech to the Burbank Library about writing horror. I had quickly gone to the bathroom right before I started my talk. Halfway through my lecture, I felt a breeze, glanced down and
was horrified to see my fly was unzipped and, even worse, my baby elephant was hanging out! I screamed! And then, I woke up.
Cyn: What draws you into the whole horror aspect of things?
Robert: I have no idea. At my father’s funeral, a writer said my dad thought “crooked.” Not in the criminal sense but I knew what he meant. I think because of my father I just don’t see things the same way
others do. I think “crooked.”
Cyn: How do you want people to react when they read your comics or magazines? What kind of reactions have you gotten so far?
Robert: I hope they laugh until they bleed. The most common reaction I get is WTF!
Cyn: Has it been hard finding hot girls to pose with corpses? What are the girls' biggest complaints?
Robert: Not at all. It has been far easier than I ever expected to get girls to pose with corpses. I get a hundred emails a week from models and wanna-bees. Most just aren’t cute enough or have that Hollywood thrashed look from much partying, implants, or bad facelifts. For G&C we are looking for fresh, youthful faces. Like a cheerleader. That’s what freaks guys out the most. The girl they can’t get to first
base with on a date is sucking face with a corpse. The biggest complaint I get is the smell. Corpses hate the smell of perfume -- unless it formaldehyde.
Cyn: What are some of your short-term goals? Long-term?
Robert: Short term goal is to take a piss. Also, to get out our next issue of Girls Corpses Magazine out -- our Rot and Roll issue. I don’t think long term. I don’t even wear a watch.
Cyn: How was coordinating your novel? Pain in the ass having so many people and artists to push around?
Robert: It was hell! try rounding up 43 artists who all were behind schedule. I even told them the deadline was six months before it actually was -- and I still barely made the real deadline. But I'm really pleased with the results. "Satan's 3-Ring Circus of Hell" is arguably the greatest collection of horror artists ever assembled into one anthology. It's 280 pages (half in color) and features the amazing work of such icons as: William Stout, Tim Vigil, John Cassaday, Hilary Barta, Spain Rodriguez, Jim Smith, Alan M. Clark, S.R Bissette, Vincent Waller, John Howard and many others. You can order the book here: www.robertrhine.com/id_circus.html.
Okay, well you heard the man. But first, be sure to check out Robert Steven Rhine's Official Site and MySpace. Also, don't forget to take a look of the new ROT 'N' Roll issue of Girls and Corpses with the world's oldest rocker Slashed and his groupies Angel Death and Crystal Meth!
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