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Mike Mignola's Frankenstein Underground takes the front spot of January's Previews, while IDW's Jem And The Holograms from Kelly Thompson and Ross Campbell takes the back… While DC Comics' Batman Earth One Vol 2 takes the cover of the Previews Order Form… And the return of Gerry Conway to Amazing Spider-Man, takes pride of place in Marvel's Previews[...]

See you on the flip side and have a wonderful December! California Comic book creator and Image Comics co-founder Erik Larsen will be at Isotope Comics in San Francisco on Wednesday, December 10 from 4 to 7 PM to celebrate the 200th issue of Savage Dragon. Culver City's The Comic Bug will host writer Mike Mignola, who will[...]

Dynamite gets a lot of grief for their covers being big ol' slices of cheesecake, but the actual writing depicts the characters as empowered, badass women as opposed to a pair of balloons tied to a stick–Gail Simone's run on Red Sonja is a prime example of what I'm talking about. Which comic artist you've never[...]

Today Dark Horse unrolled the content of their landmark 200th issue of Dark Horse Presents coming in February, and it's a massive 80 page tour-de-force of their most celebrated creators as well as adding the first US appearance of the series Masks by Gone Girl's Gillian Flynn and the legendary Dave Gibbons.   The 200th issue will[...]

Earlier today, we featured the astonishingly wide-ranging interview that Mike Mignola took part in for us here at Bleeding Cool, and in that interview he speaks a lot about the role of the new mini-series, Hellboy and the BPRD to return to "classic" Hellboy tales where there is always room for humor, filling in part[...]

Who better to celebrate Halloween with here on Bleeding Cool than Mike Mignola? Recently, the 13 Days of Hellboy event really demonstrated the breadth and scope of the Hellboy Universe, and the seemingly endless variety of tales that can be folded into its capacious parameters, and it turns out that some of the qualities imbued[...]

If you were a fan of the Phantom in the past, or like the idea of reading a comic about a ghost like hero, then you should definitely pick this up! Looking for a cryptic comic just in time for Halloween? Well, Baltimore: The Wolf and the Apostle, from Dark Horse Comics, written by Mike Mignola[...]

Last month, we reported on Noise Trade, a new digital service offering free music, books and comics.  Well they've just stepped up a notch, offering Mike Mignola Hellboy books and comics for free as well. More to come I understand… Last month, we reported on Noise Trade, a new digital service offering free music, books and comics.  Well[...]

Last, but certainly not least, the Hellboy train has arrived at Bleeding Cool. [Photo by Christine Mignola] Here we have the final Dark Horse teaser for Frankenstein Underground, the five issue miniseries coming in 2015 written by Mike Mignola, with covers by Mignola and interior art by Ben Stenbeck As the title implies, it features the creature[...]

(I really do want to write F.F…); Mike Mignola's Hellboy; Frank Miller's Sin City, The Dark Knight Returns I often start people who never read a comic off with The Dark Knight saying, "If you don't get this, you probably don't get comics." There's also an 80's graphic novel called Blood by Jon Muth[...]

Those five seconds that you get with Mike Mignola or the whole team on the Star Wars books or a lesser known creator you're meeting for the first time, but he's sitting up there on the same stage that Frank Miller is going to be on, and you get to interact with him for a[...]

Dark Horse had some creator driven announcements involving Mike Mignola, Matt Kindt, Scott Kolins, Jim Zub, Chuck Palahniuk, Jeff Lemire and more. Jim Zub Replaces Brian Wood On Conan / Red Sonja New Hellboy Title From Mike Mignola And Alex Maleev Pastaways By Matt Kindt And Scott Kolins Dark Horse Is All About Highpowered Collaborations At Comic-Con – Kindt,[...]

In this initial arch they are liberating a small Scottish Island from their "plague of beasts." And by liberating I mean, cutting off their heads – haha. MF: Who are your artistic inspirations? AM: Mike Mignola has been a major one, as well as Gabriel Ba, Toby Cypress, Rafael Grampa, Eric Canete, Jaime Hernandez, and a small[...]

 It just kind of opened my eyes. From there it just lead on into people like Mike Mignola and others who do that kind of stuff.  As far as American artists, definitely Toth and David Mazzucchelli, but there are a bunch of Italian and European artists I have .jpeg files of their untranslated stuff. I always look[...]

Mike Mignola and Bryan Hitch are hugely different artists, and as such require a hugely different approach. MB: I read that color comes late in the process of creating a comic book, so what challenges do you face when the comic is behind schedule? MG: It can be tough sometimes Every night seems to be a late[...]

Abe Sapien #13 is slated to bring us an Abe who is still trying to cope with the traumas he has witnessed at the inception of the apocalypse in the Hellboy Universe, but having some pretty freaky new conflicts to deal with. Dark Horse have kindly provided us with a special sneak preview of several pages[...]

He's a scary guy in many ways, but writers on the book Scott Allie and Mike Mignola present him as a figure who is not without sympathy because he's been driven to psychological extremes by his upbringing and is trying to cope with a world gone mad by viewing it through the lens of religious[...]

There have also been Ernie Bushmiller, Matt Groening, Jules Feiffer, Al Capp, Mike Mignola, John Stanley, Bruce Timm, Steve Ditko, Wally Wood and many more luminaries! In the Alice book alone we have Charles Schulz, Harvey Kurtzman, Walt Kelly, R.F Outcault, Dan DeCarlo, George Carlson, Dave Berg and Jack Davis, plus many other greats! My books have[...]

And one of the retailer incentives was the Mike Mignola cover, a creator associated with the character since his mini-series with Bill Mantlo in the eighties Retailers would get one for every fifty of the normal copies they ordered of the first issue. But no sooner the solicitation been released than we discover that Mike Mignola[...]

Bleeding Cool spoke with co-writer on the series with Mike Mignola and EIC at Dark Horse, Scott Allie, last week about just how Abe Sapien #12, coming in May, is a very different book than readers might be expecting. It's a close-up story of two people's experience of the beginning of the world-wide apocalypse in the[...]

We've gotten to know Abe Sapien through the pages of Hellboy and B.P.R.D, and his character, as well as our knowledge of him, has evolved over time, but

If you are in Los Angeles on Saturday April 5th, head on over to the shop around 2 pm where you'll find not one… not two… but three amazing creators ready to sign your books. Mike Mignola – Signing copies of Hellboy: the First 20 Years. Steve Niles – Signing Breath of Bones: A Tale of the[...]

MORE BALTIMORE Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden,  Peter Bergting and Dave Stewart are creating a new Baltimore comic mini-series, featuring the greatest monster hunter, Lord Henry Baltimore, in Baltimore: The Witch of Harju. In his newest adventure, fresh off a showdown in London, Baltimore shelters a woman on the run from a possessed dead man and the witch playing his puppet master.    MORE MAX Ebony[...]

It's very much worth a try. Flashback Pick: Hellboy: Seed of Destruction In honor of Hellboy Day (3/22), the 20th birthday of Mike Mignola's famous creation, I went to my bookshelf and reread Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, the collection of the first Hellboy miniseries with other early work Scripted by John Byrne, two things are clear from[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode80.mp3] After last week's chat with Jai Nitz (which you can still listen to here), this time I check back in with Mike Mignola on the eve of Hellboy Day Mike & I first spoke on the landmark 50th episode a few months back (which you can find right here), so it was a[...]

Mike Mignola—Meltdown Comics—Los Angeles, CA 2 p.m. Meltdown Comics 7522 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90046 (323) 851-7223 Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/604965422917272/ 2 Tyler Crook, Dave Stewart & Scott Allie—TFAW—Portland, OR 7 p.m.–10 p.m. Things From Another World—Portland Location 2916 NE Broadway Street Portland, OR 97232 (503) 284-4693 Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/517966264988958/?previousaction=join&source=1 3[...]

As we discussed, I've been reading from a very young age and I've been able to publish many of the creators and characters that I read growing up. Creators and characters like Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Richard Matheson, Donald Westlake (Richard Stark), Robert Bloch, John Romita's Spider-Man, John Byrne's Fantastic Four, Chester Gould, Berkeley[...]

From the new solicitations from Dark Horse Comics for May 2014. Dark Horse Presents #36 Mike Mignola (W), Justin Aclin (W), Stan Sakai (W/A), Luciano Saracino (W), Jaime Hernandez (W/A), Patrick Alexander (W/A), Kel McDonald (W/A), Christopher Sebela (W), Dennis Culver (W/A), Martin Conaghan (W), Ben Stenbeck (A), Nicolás Daniel Selma (A), Juan Manuel Tumburús (A), Brian Churilla[...]

This arc is written by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi, with art by Tonci Zonjic, and colors by Dave Stewart This week, "Get the Lobster" kicks off in its five part arc wherein a "sporting event goes terribly wrong as the ref is killed in front of a live audience by two crazed—and seemingly bulletproof—wrestlers". Tonci[...]

Written by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi, with art by Laurence Campbell (who keeps raising red flags an artist to keep your eye on), colors by Dave Stewart, and letters by Clem Robins, this is another strong example of a book that gives a complete package feel with each element well-crafted and blended toward a[...]