The following article is not the ultimate reading order, it’s a reading guide, an attempt to offer a good view of one of the best comic book universes.Ĭreated by writer-artist Mike Mignola, Hellboy is a half-Demon who was summoned from Hell to Earth as a baby by the “Mad Monk” Grigori Rasputin for the Nazis. It’s also composed of multiple series and miniseries, stories published in a non-chronological order.

His credits include Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin, Daytripper, and Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist.The Hellboy Universe is vast and full of monsters. You can see some of Fegredo's art at .uk.ĭave Stewart is a multiple Eisner Award–winning colorist who works for Dark Horse, Marvel, and DC Comics. Fegredo was a storyboard contributor to the hit movie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. He has also worked on B.P.R.D. and Tarzan. Mike lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.ĭuncan Fegredo is a comic book artist and illustrator who is known for his work on the critically acclaimed Hellboy series. Mike's books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries.

Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). There are thirteen Hellboy graphic novels (with more on the way), several spin-off titles ( B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder), prose books, animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse.

By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. Mike Mignola's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered.

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