The misfits include the eponymous Hellboy, a demon snatched from the pits of Hell by occultist Nazis and saved by a crack force of US Army GIs. Mike Mignola’s mid-1990s comic book Hellboy, published by indie press Dark Horse, spins the tale of a group of heroic misfits working for the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense. This seems like an excellent place to start. Overall, graphic novels have a lot of potential for telling a different sort of stories than books, audiobooks, movies, or TV and I really should read more of them. I'd be the first to admit that I have no shortage of faults.īut if I had to pick one, the one that's gotten me into the most trouble over the years. But if those are? Give it a go! I don't think you'll regret it. It's a bit creepy and violent, so maybe not for you if that's not your thing. but as good as that was, the comic is better. I greatly enjoyed the movie movie (the 2004 one, I haven't seen the 2019 one). Hellboy was one of the comiXology Unlimited suggested reads. I recently discovered comiXology (mostly for reading ). Mike lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.If I have a real name, I've never known it.

Mike's books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008).

There are thirteen Hellboy graphic novels (with more on the way), several spin-off titles ( B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder), prose books, animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse.

By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. Mike Mignola's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered.

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