<![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> @Plague: It's an adaptation of Baltimore, his illustrated novel with Christopher Golden. We're likely to see that long before a HBIII; Del Toro is going to be busy a while with hobbitses, and I think Mignola has said he's a bit disappointed HBII has more of Del Toro in it than of him.

I just wish Mignola got back to doing more comics. I know comparatively it pays for shit (oh, believe me, I know), but he runs the risk of going down Frank Miller's path where he forgets how to do quality comics while doing mediocre movies.

LicenseFarm

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> @taxbaby: I have indeed. It's obligatory, isn't it?

jbq

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> Lobster Johnson rocked, I hope there's more mini-series coming out.

bitgod

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> @jbq: Have you seen 'The Devil's Backbone'? TELL ME YOU'VE SEEN THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE. It's Del Toro condensed.

[www.imdb.com]

taxbaby

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> I can't agree more with this entire post. Not many artists have such crazy skill crossing so many areas...he creates gorgeous interior art that is moody and expressive, and in no way do I think anyone can duplicate the way he approaches cover art. Some series arc has limited palettes that harmonize with each other(1946), controlled compositions that echo through the whole arc, and are just...damn, I can't analyze anymore, it's just damn beautiful. Take a look at all 5 covers of Garden of Souls at once if you need to see what I mean.

Tiwa

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> Wow. I forgot the awesome that was Screw-on-Head. Remeber the "VideoPhone?" It was just a picture with moving mouth and eye parts.

And more VSF then fantasy, so yay!

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> @taxbaby: Agreed! It pleases me :-) I'm also one of the people who liked Blade II (apart from the dust-face in the end), mainly because of the (at the time) pretty unique visual style of Del Toro.

@Evil Tortie's Mom: I know! I just love that Del Toro and Mignola decided to work up a completely original story between them, and this non-Tolkienesque elf-deal is pretty cool in my book.

jbq

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> @jbq: The trailer for HBII is brilliant. First time I saw it, I had no idea what it was for and just thought "this movie is made of awesome, what is it?" and the big red guy doesn't show up till halfway through. Just cool images of... stuff.

Evil Tortie's Mom

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> I like the rest, not a big fan of the HP picture, the tentacle coming out of his pants is too obvious. In a picture composed almost entirely of greytones, it was shaded pink? Can't fault the drawing though.

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> @Miranda Kali: Hahahah. I thought I was the only one who'd read Iron Wolf.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> Ms. Kali has already championed "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" and "Ironwolf" but I had to add my 1.3ยข. I'm not a big fan of Howard Chaykin's dialouge (he always goes... crazy with...ellipses!) but Mignola's artwork based on two excellent exercises in world-building are great.

Grey_Area

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> Love love love Mignola. It's great to see careful composition combined with aggressive, unpolished linework in an era of super-smooth inks and computer coloring.
@jbq: It's kind of funny watching Del Toro do Mignola, because while he has a similar chiaroscuro sensibility his use of color and shape is sooo different. I still love the combination.

taxbaby

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> @CmdrHunt: Mmmm, I'm so eager for HBII to do well at the box office, not only because I love the franchise, but because that would make Del Toro go through with his wish of Lobster Johnson played by Bruce Campbell in the third! (Mignola has OK'd it, as long as they don't have to change his backstory)

jbq

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> Lobster Johnson. That guy is a legend. Mignola is brilliant for making a pulp hero named Lobster be so cool.

CmdrHunt

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> Definitely my favourite comics artist, with Guy Davis and Frank Cho coming in second and third, respectively. I absolutely agree on his compositions, how darkness defines every shape - it's just so... beautiful! Also, how almost every character piece, like the one of Lovecraft, is so reminiscent of those old photographies of yore when everyone was so carefully placed and situated. Fabulous!

jbq

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> Where's the HPL picture from?

mikecap

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> God I really wish the Amazing Screw-On Head had become a series. It would have been great. Oh well, it still has the option of going the animated movie route.

monkeytail41

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> MM teased us this weekend at the LA Festival of Books by saying he has another movie in the works- and it's not another Hellboy.

No other info. Damn him.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> @Oasx: Then you have no soul. Or if you do have one, it's a light and fluffy soul. Maybe one you stole from a CareBear?

Er...Ahem

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> Not really fond of his artwork

Oasx

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> I'm not into comics at all, but I remember reading, as a lad of 7 or 8, back in the mid '70s, separate comic books about alien invasions and WWII. The images above evoke memories of those old books. I've no idea what the titles were of the flying saucers & aliens books, but I think the WWII was Sgt. Rock. I can clearly remember looking at drawings of the horror of war done in only black, white, and red.

Ravac

]]> <![CDATA[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."

Erm... for the record, he's only holding one gun in the picture. Unless it's the skeleton army that has the two guns?

But yeah, Mignola is my favorite comics artist by far.

Whitworthian

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> Mignola's work is some of my favorite. Interestingly enough, it wasn't his popular stuff that drew my attention. It was his take on Fafhrd & The Grey Mouser. I think it captured the mood of those stories perfectly.
...and then, of course, Iron Wolf was crack to a closet steampunk junkie.

Miranda Kali

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> Awesome! Must get my hands on the Amazing Screw-on Head pilot ...

royen

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> I love Screw On Head. It's just so weird and fun. And say what you will about Indy 4 or Iron Man, the movie i'm most looking forward to this summer is Hellboy 2.

Gyrus

]]> <![CDATA[Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> I'm going to have to take a photo of my original Mignola panel I have from the Third Wish and post here for bragging rights (will it give me bragging rights, please?).

PVIII

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