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Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

A feature length documentary about Mike Mignola and the creation of his comic book universe centered around Hellboy.

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Jim Demonakos, Kevin Konrad Hanna

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Self - Creator

Self - Mike's Brother

Self - Mike's Brother

Self - Mike's Wife

Christine Beatty Mignola

Self - Editor - DC Comics, Marvel Comics

Self - Artist - Spider-Man, X-Men

Self - University of Oregon, Director of Comics & Cartoon Studies

Self - Director - Pixar, Creator - Sam & Max

Self - Writer - Hellboy and The B.P.R.D., iZombie

Self - Artist - Hellboy and The B.P.R.D., 1954

Self - Artist - Star Wars: Rogue One, Hellboy

Self - Director - Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth

Guillermo del Toro

Self - Writer - Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Self - Comedian

Self - Creator

Self - Actor - Hellboy, Sons of Anarchy, Nightmare Alley

Self - Publisher - Dark Horse Comics

Mike Richardson

Self - Author - Good Omens, The Sandman

Self - Artist - Powers, B.P.R.D.

Michael Avon Oeming

Self - Creator

Self - Artist - Spawn, Abe Sapien

Jason Shawn Alexander

Self - Director - Maya and the Three, The Book of Life

Jorge R. Gutiérrez

Self - Host - Mythbusters, Tested

Self - Editor - Hellboy, Dark Horse Comics

Self - Author - The Changling, The Ballad of Black Tom

Self - Director - The Amazing Screw-On Head

Self - Actor - The Shape of Water, Star Trek: Discovery

Self - Writer - Hellboy: The Bones of Giants, Baltimore

Christopher Golden

Self - Writer - Young Hellboy, Lobster Johnson

Self - Colorist - Hellboy, B.P.R.D.

Self - Writer

Self - Artist - The House of Lost Horizon: A Sarah Jewell Mystery

Self - Hellboy Collector

Self - Mike & Christine's Daughter

Self - Artist

Self - Writer - Hellboy: Seed of Destruction

Self - Rapper & Singer

Self - Model

Self - Actor - Hellboy

Self - Mike's Father

Charles Mignola

Self - Actor - Blade II

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Looking for approval and not finding it. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Looking for approval and not finding it.

Then everyone goes, "What an
asshole. He's always looking for sympathy." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Then everyone goes, "What an asshole. He's always ...

I know I'm just some guy who gets
away with drawing monsters for a living. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I know I'm just some guy who gets away with drawing mon...

Hellboy is a demon brought into
our realm at the end of World War II. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Hellboy is a demon brought into our realm at the end of Worl...

Now, he's an adult demon who's
a wisecracking, sarcastic fella. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Now, he's an adult demon who's a wisecracking, sar...

And because he was
raised by Professor Broom, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

And because he was raised by Professor Broom,

Although Hellboy is supposed
to be the beast of the apocalypse, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Although Hellboy is supposed to be the beast of the apocalyp...

He ends up devoting his life to
cleaning up supernatural messes. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

He ends up devoting his life to cleaning up supernatural mes...

This little King of Hell is
just a regular blue-collar guy. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

This little King of Hell is just a regular blue-collar guy.

His job just happens to be
paranormal detective kind of stuff. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

His job just happens to be paranormal detective kind of stuf...

The way that he simplifies forms - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

The way that he simplifies forms

He sings with his visuals, with a
voice that you've never heard before. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

He sings with his visuals, with a voice that you've nev...

Mike's universe is like a doorway in - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Mike's universe is like a doorway in

After Marvel and DC, the largest extended
comic book universe is the Mignolaverse. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

After Marvel and DC, the largest extended comic book univers...

Unlike Marvel and DC, it is
the vision of a single creator. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Unlike Marvel and DC, it is the vision of a single creator.

It all began with just a guy sitting
down and just working on the book, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

It all began with just a guy sitting down and just working o...

I guess I never thought it
would get this out of hand. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I guess I never thought it would get this out of hand.

For whatever reason,
I stall out around 1940 - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

For whatever reason, I stall out around 1940

I think I've got it covered
as far as ghost stories, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I think I've got it covered as far as ghost stories,

Oh, M. R. James, the
greatest ghost story writer, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Oh, M. R. James, the greatest ghost story writer,

There was a fantasy writer
named Frank Stockton. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

There was a fantasy writer named Frank Stockton.

This sums up everything I've ever
wanted the Hellboy world to feel like. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

This sums up everything I've ever wanted the Hellboy wo...

Yeah, I'm writing his stories for him - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Yeah, I'm writing his stories for him

Stuff very much like this is in The
Witchfinder and the Hellboy stuff. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Stuff very much like this is in The Witchfinder and the Hell...

These are the characters
that they're just footnotes - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

These are the characters that they're just footnotes

I have two brothers, and we
were raised by a workaholic father. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I have two brothers, and we were raised by a workaholic fath...

We grew up without a
mother, so it's just our dad, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

We grew up without a mother, so it's just our dad,

You'd go to leave and
you'd say, "I love you, dad." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

You'd go to leave and you'd say, "I love you,...

He was of that generation where
you can't speak your feelings. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

He was of that generation where you can't speak your fe...

I think his father did
the best that he could, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I think his father did the best that he could,

Mike, he was just a little, tiny kid. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Mike, he was just a little, tiny kid.

He wasn't particularly
well socialized, I don't think, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

He wasn't particularly well socialized, I don't th...

I don't think any teacher even
knew I was in the classroom. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I don't think any teacher even knew I was in the classr...

It's not like I wore a
Halloween costume to class. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

It's not like I wore a Halloween costume to class.

He literally doesn't remember a lot of
it, which I think is a safety mechanism. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

He literally doesn't remember a lot of it, which I thin...

He was very focused
on what he wanted to do, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

He was very focused on what he wanted to do,

I had a wonderful teacher who
just pointed out to me one day, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I had a wonderful teacher who just pointed out to me one day...

I remember in elementary school,
books I used to check out of the library - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I remember in elementary school, books I used to check out o...

One was on Norse mythology,
one was a book about true ghosts. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

One was on Norse mythology, one was a book about true ghosts...

So monsters, ghosts, as
far back as I can remember. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

So monsters, ghosts, as far back as I can remember.

To me, it was normal, my
fixation on ghosts and vampires. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

To me, it was normal, my fixation on ghosts and vampires.

Fortunately, I had two
brothers to be an outsider with. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Fortunately, I had two brothers to be an outsider with.

We had very similar interests,
and we did have complete freedom, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

We had very similar interests, and we did have complete free...

My brothers and I would take the bus
down to Berkeley almost every weekend. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

My brothers and I would take the bus down to Berkeley almost...

There was maybe four or five used
bookstores we would hit in a day. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

There was maybe four or five used bookstores we would hit in...

I mean, Moe's, that one is the
one we spent the most time in. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I mean, Moe's, that one is the one we spent the most ti...

We would spend a full
day haunting the bookstores - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

We would spend a full day haunting the bookstores

It was such a big period
as far as education, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

It was such a big period as far as education,

Yeah, over there was supernatural, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Yeah, over there was supernatural,

I was really into Conan, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I was really into Conan,

I can never overstate how
big those few years were, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I can never overstate how big those few years were,

He was always sitting by himself at
lunch with a book in front of his face, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

He was always sitting by himself at lunch with a book in fro...

At that point, I had a vague idea - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

At that point, I had a vague idea

But where do you go to
draw monsters for a living? - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

But where do you go to draw monsters for a living?

I was thinking, "I gotta figure
out how to make a living at this." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I was thinking, "I gotta figure out how to make a livin...

I didn't think that was something
I would ever be able to do. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I didn't think that was something I would ever be able ...

According to Chasing Amy, they're tracers. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

According to Chasing Amy, they're tracers.

No, you go over what he
draws with a pen, all right? - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

No, you go over what he draws with a pen, all right?

Inkers are people who interpret
what the pencil has put down - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Inkers are people who interpret what the pencil has put down

I thought, "Well, maybe I could do that." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I thought, "Well, maybe I could do that."

I can break in as an inker,
and that'll be my main income. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I can break in as an inker, and that'll be my main inco...

Back in the '80s, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Back in the '80s,

You can go to Marvel or DC, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

You can go to Marvel or DC,

Can you give me some work, please?" - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Can you give me some work, please?"

It turned out, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

We land in New York, and this is '82, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

We land in New York, and this is '82,

Everybody is sitting on the stoops, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Everybody is sitting on the stoops,

I ended up in this loft, and I remember - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I ended up in this loft, and I remember

It was that classic skeevy New York thing, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

It was that classic skeevy New York thing,

When you switched on the light,
everything started crawling really fast. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

When you switched on the light, everything started crawling ...

I said, "Dude, I can't do this." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I said, "Dude, I can't do this."

There was a guy sitting in a
half-collapsed cardboard box, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

There was a guy sitting in a half-collapsed cardboard box,

In my mind, it was a G.I. Joe leg,
and his foot was pointed like that. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

In my mind, it was a G.I. Joe leg, and his foot was pointed ...

I just thought, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I just thought,

At the same time, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

At the same time,

My first inking job was five pages
of an issue of The Defenders, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

My first inking job was five pages of an issue of The Defend...

I inked five pages, and they were terrible. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I inked five pages, and they were terrible.

But I remember Butch Guice did a
pin-up for the Micronauts, penciled, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

But I remember Butch Guice did a pin-up for the Micronauts, ...

I said, "When do you need it?" - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I said, "When do you need it?"

My portfolio was what my portfolio was, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

My portfolio was what my portfolio was,

I thought, "I'm going to die here." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I thought, "I'm going to die here."

My brothers said, that my
father, who's a very tough guy, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

My brothers said, that my father, who's a very tough gu...

If he wasn't in New York
and he wasn't in the doorway - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

If he wasn't in New York and he wasn't in the door...

So Mike got work just because
he was standing in doorways. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

So Mike got work just because he was standing in doorways.

Because I wasn't any good
and I was trying to get work, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Because I wasn't any good and I was trying to get work,

Because somebody's like
that poor bastard out there - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Because somebody's like that poor bastard out there

Thank God, Marvel was
publishing so much back then. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Thank God, Marvel was publishing so much back then.

I was in New York, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I was in New York,

They just literally needed somebody, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

They just literally needed somebody,

Master of Kung Fu ended,
and they were rolling me over - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Master of Kung Fu ended, and they were rolling me over

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A feature length documentary about Mike Mignola and the creation of his comic book universe centered around Hellboy.

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Director: Jim Demonakos, Kevin Konrad Hanna

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Production: N/A

Genre: documentary

Year: 2022

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Released: 17 Sep 2024

Awards: 8 wins

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