Heroically Support Comic Book Herald If you like Comic Book Herald, and are able to donate, any small contribution will help keep CBH alive and full of new comics guides and content. Original Comic Art Mike Mignola - Ghost Hellboy Special 2 Cover Original Art. I certainly prefer the much more simplified and stylized look of Mignola’s work that he has created in more recent years, but this book is a good study of his earlier day works, and the Batman comics that take up the later half of this book are also of excellent quality, and stylistically much closer to his early days Hellboy work. Mignola’s work is one, long story that stretches back before him. View Mike Mignola biographical information, artworks upcoming at auction. The sketches went viral and were the talk of the comics internet. This particular volume collects DC comics that the artist drew before he created his iconic Hellboy, and is definitely interesting because you can see the evolution of his art work, many of it neigh unrecognizable from the Mignola style drawings we know today ( also in part due to the very different color palette used by his inkers ).īy the time the artist embarked on Batman material his line work has simplified significantly, the hatchings reduced, and the bold blocks of rich black shadows are beginning to dominate his over composition style.Īs you scroll down this post you can see how his art style change gradually over the course of time. During the coronavirus quarantine, legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola posted original pencil sketches online and auctioned off the art to raise money for Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen. Mike Mignola Born: 1960 Biography Following ten years of working on in-house projects for Marvel and DC Comics, Mike Mignola (b.1960) created the Hellboy series in 1993, releasing it through the independent comic book publisher Dark Horse.

I’m a considerable fan of Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and have been for more than a few years systematically collecting his art books and comics.

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