Mike Mignola

Doug Jones explains how to bring humanity to an inhuman character

Nobody is better at playing bizarre creatures of the imagination than Doug Jones, who’s probably Guillermo del Toro’s most frequent collaborator. We asked Jones the secret of bringing creatures to life, and whether we’ll ever see Hellboy’s Abe Sapien again. We asked Jones the secret to playing a memorable non-human, and whether this was different…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 19

This comic by Mike Mignola and his daughter is the most heartwarming thing you’ll read all day

Here’s an exclusive preview from The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects, a hardcover collection of phantasmagorical comics by Mike Mignola. Here’s “The Magician and The Snake,” an Eisner Award-winning tale by Mignola and his then-seven-year-old daughter Katie. You can find details about The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects at Dark Horse…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Aug 4

Why you should be happy Del Toro left The Hobbit

Not everybody is sad that Guillermo Del Toro isn’t going to be directing The Hobbit after all. Lauren Panepinto, creative director at Orbit Books and Yen Press, explains why she had misgivings about a Pan’s Labyrinth-style Hobbit. Back when Guillermo Del Toro was announced as the director of The Hobbit, my initial response was an…

io9 Lauren Panepinto Jun 2

The Haunting Gothic Loveliness Of Frankenstein Art

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has seized our imaginations for nearly 200 years. Frankenstein art ranges from the grotesque to the glamorous to the playfully weird… like this Frankenstein meets Vampirella image. The Frankensteinia blog has compiled some incredibly gorgeous Frankenstein art. Frankensteinia launched in August 2007, and has covered everything from exploitation movies to trivia to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 6

Hellboy Creator Mike Mignola Working on Old-School Vampire Flick

Hellboy 2 is coming out on DVD November 11, packed with special features and back story about how the effects were created. What’s next for Red and the gang? You’ll be seeing them again in the comic books that launched the movie franchise. This morning we chatted with Hellboy comic book creator Mike Mignola about…

Movies Annalee Newitz Nov 7

Weird Tales Reinvents Modern Spooky in Website Relaunch

The magazine that gave Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, and Margaret Brundage their big breaks has been around for 85 years now. But Weird Tales isn’t even close to retiring — this week, the publication celebrates the launch of a gorgeous new website that showcases every intersection of the unique, fantastic, and bizarre. You can now…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel Oct 25

Will We See Hellboy The TV Show?

We’ve already told you about the surprisingly full schedule of director Guillermo Del Toro, but the eagle-eyes of Newsarama’s Kevin Melrose found an interesting tidbit of information hidden in a recent Variety story about Del Toro’s future. Will the movie adventures of Mike Mignola’s friendly red demon continue on the small screen?After listing Del Toro’s…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 8

Could The Hobbit Save Hellboy’s Life?

The fate of Hellboy lies in the hands of both his comic creator Mike Mignola and director Guillermo del Toro, but who will be first to pull the trigger? Del Toro, after all, has hinted again and again (even in Hellboy II: The Golden Army) that our hero would meet an untimely demise, but that’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 6

Visionary Comic Creators Share Secret Origins

As expected, if you bring seven of comics’ most talented and most outspoken creators together on a panel and just ask them about… well, anything and everything about comic books, you’ll end up with an amusing and educational way to spend an hour… But also one that’s impossible to summarize. That’s why, under the jump,…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Jul 24

Mike Mignola, Creator of Hellboy: Low-tech and Badass

Welcome back to Jewels of Apator, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s biweekly column about the intersection of art and the fantastic. It may be hard to understand now just how fresh and different Mike Mignola’s Hellboy was when the first installment, Seeds of Destruction, came out from Dark Horse Comics in 1994. Wise-cracking anti-heroes have always…

Books & Comics Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Jul 11

Crooked Men And Futuristic Slayers In This Week’s Comics

And here’s another way in which DC Comics isn’t celebrating Superman’s birthday – There’s only one Superman comic this week. How could they hate him so mu – Oh, wait, it’s just a scheduling thing? Oh, alright. And there’s also a Supergirl comic for those who absolutely have to have their S-Shield fetish fulfilled? Well,…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 1

Conquering Humans and Pissed-Off Elves in Hellboy II Animated Prologue

Since history is written by the conquerors, sometimes the conquered require a little backstory. With that in mind, Hellboy fans can get a sneak peak of Hellboy II: The Golden Army with an animated version of the Hellboy II prologue comic that Dark Horse gave out at this year’s Wondercon, in which Dr. Bruttenholm pacifies…

Movies Lauren Davis Jun 29

Hellboy’s Ectoplasmic Spirit’s Live-Action Debut

Watch Johann Kraus beat up big red in some new Hellboy II: The Golden Army clips. Kraus is probably the one character I’m most excited about in Hellboy II, second only to all of the creepy and wondrous creatures that come out of Guillermo Del Toro’s monstrous mind. Partially because he’s voiced by The Family…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 27

Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever

A masked avenger named Lobster Johnson should always fight a skeleton army with two guns and some kind of glowing-goggle mask. And yet so few people seem to understand this. That’s why comic book artist/writer Mike “Hellboy” Mignola, creator of Lobster Johnson and many other mysterious heroes, rules. He is the man who understands how…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Apr 28

Hellboy 2’s Psychic Entity Voiced By Family Guy

Seth MacFarlane, creator and voice of The Family Guy, was the only possible actor to provide the voice of Johann Kraus, the disembodied psychic entity who lives in a containment suit, director Guillermo del Toro told New York Comic-Con. “It was very difficult to find Johann a voice, to duplicate the wheezing and mechanical sound.”…

io9 Meredith Woerner Apr 20

More Monstery Goodness in New Hellboy II Trailer

Yahoo’s got the full theatrical trailer for Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and once again it’s clear that director Guillermo Del Toro won’t be skimping on the monsters. Here we get to see more of the Golden Army itself, and the plot arc becomes clearer. Creatures from one of those other hellish dimensions have come…

Movies Annalee Newitz Apr 3

Doug Jones explains how to bring humanity to an inhuman character

This comic by Mike Mignola and his daughter is the most heartwarming thing you’ll read all day

Why you should be happy Del Toro left The Hobbit

The Haunting Gothic Loveliness Of Frankenstein Art

Hellboy Creator Mike Mignola Working on Old-School Vampire Flick

Weird Tales Reinvents Modern Spooky in Website Relaunch

Will We See Hellboy The TV Show?

Could The Hobbit Save Hellboy’s Life?

Visionary Comic Creators Share Secret Origins

Mike Mignola, Creator of Hellboy: Low-tech and Badass

Crooked Men And Futuristic Slayers In This Week’s Comics

Conquering Humans and Pissed-Off Elves in Hellboy II Animated Prologue

Hellboy’s Ectoplasmic Spirit’s Live-Action Debut

Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever

Hellboy 2’s Psychic Entity Voiced By Family Guy

More Monstery Goodness in New Hellboy II Trailer

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