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Girls & Corpses Magazine

I recently sat down to think of something spooky to do for Hustler, with Halloween so close. Boobs, butts, and dead people were the first things that came to mind. I was frightened to find out somebody had already beaten me to this concept. Meet Girls & Corpses magazine – though they show more grey matter than our “pink”, I was impressed. We sat down with “Deaditor-In-Chief, Robert “Corpsy” Rhine of Girls & Corpses to find out what keeps him up at night and if its easier to clean up after a porn shoot or corpse shoot.

What was the inspiration for “Girls and Corpses”?

Corpsy: I have always been fascinated by how opposites attract: Beauty and The Beast, good and evil, humor and horror, peanut butter and chocolate. I began my career as a fiction writer for over 100 articles in magazines and my first book was “My Brain Escapes Me” (which had an Xray on the cover of my head when I was ten and had a massive skull fracture which left me blind in one eye, for a time, and nearly killed me) After that life altering, (or was it death altering?) incident my writing always came out very dark with a slice of humor. So, the idea of a beautiful hot woman posing next to a decaying cold corpse had a twisted appeal. But I discovered I wasn’t the only one it appealed to, since our magazine has become a surprising success all over the world for the past several years. We are a newsstand magazine with full distribution and we are also translated into German and sold in Germany. For seven years, I was an exhibitor at Comic-Con San Diego where I was promoting my comic book series: “Selected Reading’s From Satan’s Powder Room, “Chicken Soup For Satan,” “Satan Gone Wild” and my 280 page graphic novel “Satan’s 3-Ring Circus of Hell”. For the promotion of each of these dark comedy releases I would decorate my booth at Comic-Con with rotting corpses and each year beautiful girls would approach the booth and ask to have their picture taken with the corpses. I always shook my head wondering, “What’s up With Girls and Corpses?” Then… I said to myself, ‘Nooo… don’t do it!” But I did… and Girls and Corpses Magazine was spawned and unleashed upon an innocent planet.

What are you thinking about when you are matching up the corpse and the models? Chemistry. Some models are just drawn to certain corpses. We also have an elaborate audition process, sort of like ‘A Chorus Line’ with dancing and singing in a cemetery. Also, we must search for the perfect models for our various themes for the magazine issues, such as: Golf Corpse (with Tiger Wormwood), Alien Autopsy, St. Valentines Dead, Rot and Roll, BBQ corpse, Corpse Camping, Happy Ending Corpse Massage, The Karate Corpse, Schoolgirls and Corpses, St. Patrick’s Dead, Happy Carcass Day (Thanksgiving), Corpsemas, Religion Is Dead, Corpse Confidential, Super Corpse-bowl issue, Corpse Pilates, and our Springtime For Hitler issue with adult star Mary Carey (posing as a German barmaid with Hitler’s corpse). We have featured adult stars, such as: Belladonna, Andy San Dimas, Faye Reagan, Hollie Stevens, Charlotte Stokely, Teagan Presley, Kimberly Kane and others. They enjoy being in a magazine and not having to drop their panties, for a change.

We have also photographed numerous celebrities for our covers, such as: Sheri Moon Zombie (posing with husband Rob Zombie’s corpse), Danielle Harris (Hatchet 2), Scout Taylor Compton (Halloween), Sid Haig (House of 1,000 Corpses), Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects), Harland Williams (Something About Mary), comedian Tom Green, and a special ‘Howard Stern is Dead’ issue. You can check out these our back issue here.

How do the girls featured in your magazine first react when they see your content? Either vomiting or having a spontaneous orgasm. Actually, girls love our magazine and females represent our largest readership. I think this is because the magazine actually empowers women. ‘WTF’ you say? Well… whereas horror films traditionally have men killing girls (beheading them moments after they take off their top) in Girls and Corpses Magazine the gals are alive (and clothed) and the guys are dead (and naked). So, we rarely feature dead females. So, girls love the magazine and write me from all over the world begging to be in the magazine. We have an ‘Amateur Corpse of The Month’ section of the magazine (sort of a nod to Hustler’s Beaver Hunt, without the Beaver and just the Hunt) which allows girls from all over the world get their photo into Girls and Corpses.

We get hundreds of submission each week. I literally got this following email while writing this and it sort of represents the type of letter we get: “Hello! I really love your magazine, and I was wondering what the process was to become one of the girls in the mag? I currently am a bondage/fetish model, and think this would be quite fun! Please let me know.”

By putting hot girls, together with dead things you seem to be pushing the limits of what society allows. Is that something you are doing on purpose, and if so is there a point you will not pass? I love pushing limits. Who gives a fuck what society allows? Isn’t that how progress and creativity works? Our magazine makes you think and we back it up with some great articles on serious subjects as well as humor. As dark as we are as a concept, and many consider us to be some disgusting necro fetish magazine, we don’t even have nudity in the magazine. I think that drives our detractors batty. They want to get us banned, but we are really no worse than Cosmo, with all their ‘how to give great head’ and ‘how to have multiple orgasms’ articles.

I felt nudity wasn’t necessary for our magazine and that magazine like Hustler do a fantastic job providing that kind of glistening content. But we did have one shoot where things went a bit too far. We interviewed porn star Belladonna in our second issue (actually, she called me and simply said “When do we shoot?”). Anyhow, to cut to the chase, Belladonna blew the corpse. (crickets) We never ran that photo because it defined us as something we didn’t want to be — I guess a necrophilia rag.

What was the worst response you’ve ever had from a fan? I wish we had worse mail from fans to run in our Letters-To-The Deaditor but we don’t get enough angry letters. We are worshiped for our bravery and originality. But occasionally we get a good piece of hate mail, usually from the Church (that cesspool of perversion and pedophilia… but I digress).

Here are two with my response: (From Christ The Light Cathedral]: “You are completely sick. I hope you and your corpse rot in hell.” Signed, A parent with a daughter who will never read crap like yours.

[Dear parent with a daughter who will never read crap like yours - Why are you reading crap like ours... and with your daughter... and in church for Christ's sake?! And you think we're sick?! Say eight Thousand hail Mary's and please pray for my soul...and yours. Love Satan]

Another one: reads: “Have you found Jesus Christ? We are praying for your soul.” From The Disciple of Christ Church

[When did you last see Jesus? Did you report him missing? Check around the neighborhood—he can’t have gone very far in those sandals. And while you’re praying for my soul, you might want to include The Church… you guys have more sinning going on than an all-you- can-drink Jagermeister wet t-shirt night in a Bakersfield strip club.]

What is the best response you’ve ever had from a fan? Blowjob.

What is the one thing you would like to convey to your readers? We are all going to die. So you might as well have a few laughs and explore what is the most significant event for you existence, besides your birth. There is a ton to learn about death but there are no magazines devoted to the subject… that is until we came along. But if I had published a serious magazine about death no one would want to read it. But with comedy you can broach this difficult subject and, in our comedy format, have some truly informative articles on death, embalming, autopsies, cremations, funeral homes, etc. I’m having a blast!

I understand you have had some dealings with Hustler Magazine? Yes, I have written gags for Hustler Humor and I created a comic for them called Major Masturbator, about a superhero with embarrassing superpowers and his penis sidekick, Bobbin’. I also did a cover spoof tribute to Hustler in Girls and Corpses magazine called Barely Dead. But my best Hustler story is when I met the legend himself, Larry Flynt. It was at AVN and I waited in a long line, holding my first Girls and Corpses calendar. It was like trying to get to meet the great Wizard. Finally, I made it to the head of the line and as I handed my Girls and Corpses to Mr. Flynt, his handlers and bodyguards glanced at my calendar and waved me away. I couldn’t believe it! I said to them, “Don’t you know this is Larry Flynt who you work for??… the genius who put a girl in a meat grinder on his first issue cover?! And, as they pushed me aside, Larry Flynt picked up my calendar, stared at it for a moment, and then held it in front of him so I could take a photo. That photo was featured in our premiere issue of the magazine with a background we put in of the American Flag.

What is the next stage for “Girls and Corpses”? Outer space and beyond. We are also developing all sorts of products lines, such as our Pussy Magnets(already big sellers) our Prison Soap and Corpse Body Soap (you don’t want to know) Also, our Fall Egyptian Mummy issue will be out in time for Halloween features: Gorgeous cover model ANDY SAN DIMAS as Queen Necrophiti interviews with the 3 amazing bands, 69Eyes, THE MURDERDOLLS and HERE COME THE MUMMIES; Horror producer CHARLES BAND/FULL MOON STUDIOS (Puppetmaster); Croak-Kay; Interview with VAMPIRA (star of Planet 9 From Outer Space); Mummification Fetish; the illustrated comics DeadFellas and Bob The Unfriendly Rodeo Clown; Girls Riding Hogs, Coffin Flies; Corpse and Robbers; Undead Ed; More Last Laughs; Mummy Movies We Wish We Saw; Amateur Corpses; Michael Myers House and more mummy surprises to be unraveled inside. Our gravest issue yet! Girls and Corpses has just been voted “Most ridiculous magazine of all time” by The Huffington Post. Check us out here: girlsandcorpses.com

P. D. Brown

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