He says in a December 2008 online interview that this is due to polyps in his throat which were so severe that a doctor told him he was taking in ten percent of the air he was supposed to have been getting. While Barker is critical of organized religion, he has stated that he is a believer in both God and the afterlife, and that the Bible influences his work.įans have noticed of late that Barker's voice has become gravelly and coarse. This award is presented 'to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender individual who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for any of those communities'.

In 2003, Clive Barker received The Davidson/Valentini Award at the 15th GLAAD Media Awards. Barker's second long-term relationship, with photographer David Armstrong, ended in 2009. It was in Liverpool in 1975 that he met his first partner, John Gregson, with whom he lived until 1986. Educated at Dovedale Primary School and Quarry Bank High School, he studied English and Philosophy at Liverpool University and his picture now hangs in the entrance hallway to the Philosophy Department. Plenty for the faithful to look forward to then, but if Hellraiser teaches us anything, it's that you should be careful what you wish for.Clive Barker was born in Liverpool, England, the son of Joan Rubie (née Revill), a painter and school welfare officer, and Leonard Barker, a personnel director for an industrial relations firm. You can download a free eight-page prelude right hereīarker has been working on The Scarlet Gospels, a meeting of the Hellraiser mythos and his frequent protagonist Harry D'Amour (played by Scott Bakula in Lord of Illusion) for years, and the Drive Angry writer/director team of Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer are working on a Hellraiser reboot. Oh, and it looks like The Harrowers will be involved. And we also pick up with the life of Kirsty Cotton, protagonist of the first two Hellraiser films (and a key player in Hellseeker, the actually-not-bad sixth). The first issue sees a jaded Pinhead lamenting his cenobite afterlife and looking to make a faustian bargain of his own. Words and pictures by: Clive Barker, Christopher Monfette and Leonardo MancoĪnd so to the new series, turning its back on Marvel's later cartoon capers and returning the franchise to its creator. Taking in the Wild West, the Incas, medieval Europe and a 'Climactic Cro-magnon Clash!!!' there's fun to be had here, but we're now a *long *way off-message. In 1993 Pinhead battled Toxic Comic's 'costume killer' Marshal Law in the two-issue War in Hell, and received the full Marvel treatment, true believers, in this six-part epic charting a time travelling battle with his mighty foe Aggregate.

Hellraiser 1989