Hellboys

Mike Mignola told Variety that his version of "Pinocchio" is gothic and "almost Victorian-looking," comparing the look of "Pinocchio: The Illuminated Edition" to the world he created in "Hellboy" because he illustrated the classic story in his signature style. He admitted he was determined to make his version of "Pinocchio" unique and not something that was a direct copy of other adaptations or the classic story itself. "My Pinocchio is a bit more primitive," Mignola shared. "He's a bit more simple,…

Squeezed in between his minor appearance as Dexter Tolliver in Suicide Squad and playing Red Guardian in Black Widow, Stranger Things’ David Harbour scored his first leading role in a comic book movie via 2019’s Hellboy. Unfortunately, unlike the Ron Perlman-led Hellboy movies, the reboot was both a critical and commercial disaster, resulting in plans for a sequel introducing Abe Sapien being scrapped. Three years after his sole outing as the popular Dark Horse Comics character, Harbour revealed the big thing he learned…

Mike Mignola may have finished the story of Hellboy, but he’s not done with the big red guy’s world. With art from frequent collaborator Ben Stenbeck, Mignola returns to hell this month with Koshchei in Hell #1, continuing the story of one of his “favorite” characters in the mythos. This is Mignola’s second Koshchei-centric series with Dark Horse Comics, after Koshchei the Deathless explored how a mortal warrior became the deathless slave of the Baba Yaga, with his soul hidden inside an egg that was hidden inside of a…

Image: Mike MignolaThe Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters documentary was announced on March 1, 2021, if by “announced” you mean “a Kickstarter was launched to create the film and was fully funded almost immediately.” Now that documentary will finally see the light of day on August 13, but unless you’re in or around the Los Angeles area you might have to wait for it to hit a wider release. The good news is that you can be anywhere to snag the exclusive (and gorgeous) poster Mignola drew for the event.The movie will premiere…