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If I happened to be an adolescent Oregonian, my head would be exploding right now. For Summer 2012, Dark Horse Comics and Mike Mignola have collaborated with a wilderness training organization to offer a Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense camp for kids 9-17. More »
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io9 recently had the chance to catch up with the one and only Mike Mignola and get the scoop on all things Hellboy. The prolific comic creator told us the secrets of Big Red's wrestling match with Frankenstein's Monster, why he can't watch The Amazing Screw-On Head TV show, and what to expect from 2012's big Hellboy story, wherein our hero goes to Hell. More »
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If you happen to be at Comic-Con, you may have noticed a groovy little lounge across the street named Tr!ckster. Indeed, some of the comic industry's finest talent like Paul Pope and Bill Sienkiewicz have been dropping by for some respite from the crowds. We talked with Tr!ckster co-founder Scott Morse about the pop-up shop's mission and many comic goodies. More »
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In tomorrow's new comics, the God of Fear rises to wage war on the entire Marvel universe, Hellboy travels back to the 1970s, Batman faces two of the DC universe's heaviest hitters, and a classic John Constantine story returns. More »
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What tales were ensconced between the pages of 2010's best comics? Stories about psychic drugs, lunatic orcs, a lost Norse god, and a certain Toronto boy with relationship troubles. More »
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Wednesday's comic round-up gives us Richard Corben drawing Hellboy, some newly reprinted 2000 AD work from Gorillaz maven Jamie Hewlett, and the Scott Pilgrim boxed set. A motley crew if ever there was one! More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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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 the future of his badass demon, and his upcoming old-school vampire movie project. More »
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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 enjoy the devastating creepiness of One-Minute Weird Tales videos, commission your very own gargoyle sculpture, and download a full PDF of the magazine's latest issue. More »
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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? More »
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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 not exactly what Mignola has in mind just yet. More »
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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, you'll get the best parts of Entertainment Weekly's Visionaries: Comic Book Creators panel. More »
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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 been around, whether in comics or other media. But Mignola went a step further: he brought in Boys from Brazil-style Nazi bad guys, monsters that could rival Lovecraft’s Old Ones for sheer alien intensity, a cast of fascinating supporting characters, and a mysterious past for Big Red himself. What made it work, however, was his approach to the art. We've got an interview with Mignola below, as well as a gallery of his art. More »
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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, that's pretty good, I guess. And there's an incredible amount of other books coming out this week, including new Hellboy and Joker. Oh, and Buffy fans? Fray returns. More »
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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 a young Hellboy on Christmas Eve by telling him a cheery tale of interspecies war. Watch the clip for world-dominating humans, genocidal machines, and an adorably miniature version of our favorite hellspawn, under the jump. More »
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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 Guy's Seth MacFarlane, but mainly because the idea of having a character whose body was incinerated but their ectoplasmic energy remained without a human host is a fascinating concept from the genius mind of Mike Mignola. Flick through to see the live-action version of Kraus. More »
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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 a fight scene should happen. How the monsters should be. How explosions should be. How giant robots should enter the picture, or giant scorpions, or brains inside bubbling vats. More Mignola fights below. More »
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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." Del Toro showed an extended trailer for the movie, while writer/artist Mike Mignola revealed more about the Lovecraftian Hellboy universe. Spoilers, panel highlights, and contact info for Hellboy 3 internships after the jump. More »
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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 to our world to reclaim it as their own. And of course Hellboy is brought in to fight them. Along with Abe Sapien, who is now more intriguing to me than ever because Hellboy creator Mike Mignola has just given Abe his own spinoff comic. [Yahoo] More »
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