His problem wasn’t so much that he didn’t have talent, he had bags of the stuff, it was more that he couldn’t work out how to apply it to other people’s work. He was, it has to be said, ill suited to working for any of the big comic houses, doing art for both Marvel and DC that went mostly underappreciated. Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters is a pretty straight forward documentary, taking a mostly linear stab at describing the timeline of Mike’s career. Drawing Monsters, the niche but engaging documentary about the horned one’s creator, showcases how remarkable it is that the character ended up existing at all and what it meant to the talented misfit known as Mike Mignola. First created by artist Mike Mignola in 1993, the red-hued pancake loving, evil punching monster with a heart of gold has featured in comics, video games, cartoons, two good movies (by Guillermo del Toro) and one middling effort (by Neil Marshall). The character of Hellboy has become so ubiquitous in popular culture that it’s almost hard to remember a time without him.
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