![]() ![]() Over the course of three decades, Mignola has accomplished the incredible feat of taking the bare-bones sketch of a character from a random doodle at comic convention and turning it into a bonafide franchise with an ever-expanding list of. Pandemonium turned out to be rather empty by the time he got there, but Hellboy still had to face off against an array of monsters, from his demonic siblings to the mythical Furies. Alongside Spawn and The Walking Dead, Mike Mignola's Hellboy is one of the most well-known creator-owned comics success stories of the past thirty years. Instead, Mignola followed his protagonist down into the depths of Hell itself with a final series, Hellboy in Hell. ![]() That’s right, Hellboy died - and unlike most of his comic book peers, he didn’t pop back to life a few months later. Over the years, Hellboy evolved quite a bit: he was revealed as the Biblical Beast of the Apocalypse, he quit the BPRD, spent some time walking the ocean floor, fought nearly every major figure from Celtic mythology, failed to prevent the apocalypse, and even died himself. Mignola first created his iconic hero in 1993, as a red-skinned demon, brought up on Earth, who served humanity by fighting all sorts of monsters alongside his comrades in the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD). In 1994, Mike Mignola released the first Hellboy series, Seed of Destruction, as Hellboy faced his supposed destiny as Beast of the Apocalypse. ![]() A lot has changed in the last 20 years, but one thing that’s stayed constant is Mike Mignola’s production of Hellboy comics. See Mike Mignolas art as you never have before-presented in IDWs Artisan Edition formatMike Mignola has been (and remains) one of the preeminent comics. ![]()
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