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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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I must have felt like, "Oh,
okay, we're up and rolling," - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I must have felt like, "Oh, okay, we're up and rol...

As soon as I moved back to California, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

As soon as I moved back to California,

Are you ready to try drawing comics now?" - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Are you ready to try drawing comics now?"

So that's how I became
a bad comic book artist. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

So that's how I became a bad comic book artist.

The first couple of things I did,
I did a couple of short stories - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

The first couple of things I did, I did a couple of short st...

Rocket Raccoon had been drawn,
I think, only twice before I did it. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Rocket Raccoon had been drawn, I think, only twice before I ...

It doesn't bear any resemblance
to what's on the screen, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

It doesn't bear any resemblance to what's on the s...

Then from there, I went to the Hulk,
which was like, "Oh, the Hulk's monster, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Then from there, I went to the Hulk, which was like, "O...

I remember that just being one
of those, "I'm not going to survive." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I remember that just being one of those, "I'm not ...

How long am I going to
be able to hide in the fringes - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

How long am I going to be able to hide in the fringes

The way that corporate
giants like Marvel and DC work - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

The way that corporate giants like Marvel and DC work

You may have as many as six or seven people - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

You may have as many as six or seven people

It's not the kind of system
where a single creator - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

It's not the kind of system where a single creator

At Marvel, you gotta know where you fit in, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

At Marvel, you gotta know where you fit in,

I was making a living, and I was doing it, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I was making a living, and I was doing it,

I was taking whatever jobs I
could get, and I was not very good. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I was taking whatever jobs I could get, and I was not very g...

I couldn't work for Marvel anymore, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I couldn't work for Marvel anymore,

I'm an illustrator and
director and cartoonist - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I'm an illustrator and director and cartoonist

Separate from that, Arthur
and I met at conventions. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Separate from that, Arthur and I met at conventions.

Arthur was one of the stars
of the local conventions. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Arthur was one of the stars of the local conventions.

So sooner or later the three of us
ended up living in the same building. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

So sooner or later the three of us ended up living in the sa...

We'd just sit around, draw
comics, go see movies, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

We'd just sit around, draw comics, go see movies,

Three guys who work at
home who would just wander - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Three guys who work at home who would just wander

Do you want to go get a pizza
or you want to go to the movies?" - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Do you want to go get a pizza or you want to go to the movie...

It's not fair to say Arthur was
Kramer, but I was clearly George. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

It's not fair to say Arthur was Kramer, but I was clear...

I had the car, so I was the
ring leader of our hijinks. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I had the car, so I was the ring leader of our hijinks.

Our careers were getting going, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Our careers were getting going,

It's really funny because we would notice - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

It's really funny because we would notice

Mike was pointed at something - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Mike was pointed at something

It was almost like he's
planting seeds for something - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

It was almost like he's planting seeds for something

I remember Mike and Arthur
and Steve would come over. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I remember Mike and Arthur and Steve would come over.

I felt like I get to be an
honorary Mignola brother - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I felt like I get to be an honorary Mignola brother

Fizzball started stupider than it finished, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Fizzball started stupider than it finished,

Fizzball is what happens when Steve
and Arthur and me and my brother - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Fizzball is what happens when Steve and Arthur and me and my...

Somebody pitched the beer and
somebody hit it with this axe handle, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Somebody pitched the beer and somebody hit it with this axe ...

Ideally, if you could make the can explode, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Ideally, if you could make the can explode,

I remember Arthur hitting this can, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I remember Arthur hitting this can,

I remember saying to Steve,
"You gotta put that in Sam & Max - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I remember saying to Steve, "You gotta put that in Sam ...

What would they think about
it if they invented this game? - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

What would they think about it if they invented this game?

After that came out, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

After that came out,

At the time, Mike's dad
was just watching us, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

At the time, Mike's dad was just watching us,

But it turned out, "Well,
this was like two weeks ago." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

But it turned out, "Well, this was like two weeks ago.&...

That apartment that we lived
at was just a couple of blocks - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

That apartment that we lived at was just a couple of blocks

One of the other few healthy things we did, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

One of the other few healthy things we did,

Mountain View Cemetery, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Mountain View Cemetery,

It's designed by the same fellow who
designed Central Park in New York, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

It's designed by the same fellow who designed Central P...

I think probably that goes back to
our mother dying when we were young. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I think probably that goes back to our mother dying when we ...

Having an early exposure to death - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Having an early exposure to death

That imagery Mike has used and
used, there's so much great statuary. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

That imagery Mike has used and used, there's so much gr...

I came back from New York
with my tail between my legs, '83. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I came back from New York with my tail between my legs, ...

I thought, "I don't know how I'm
going to be able to stay in comics." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I thought, "I don't know how I'm going to be ...

I think that Mike was ill-suited for
most of the work he was given in the '80s. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I think that Mike was ill-suited for most of the work he was...

Anytime that he was asked
to draw a superhero book, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Anytime that he was asked to draw a superhero book,

I wanted to be an illustrator, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I wanted to be an illustrator,

But when I did Cosmic Odyssey, I
was drawing a lot of Kirby characters. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

But when I did Cosmic Odyssey, I was drawing a lot of Kirby ...

I mean, you look at early
1960s Marvel Comics, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I mean, you look at early 1960s Marvel Comics,

But I never really thought
of him as an influence - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

But I never really thought of him as an influence

So when I did Cosmic Odyssey, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

So when I did Cosmic Odyssey,

That was the missing ingredient - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

That was the missing ingredient

The freedom to exaggerate - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

The freedom to exaggerate

There were a couple of books, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

There were a couple of books,

There was an issue of
Legends of the Dark Knight - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

There was an issue of Legends of the Dark Knight

The biggest breakthrough
thing for God knows what reason, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

The biggest breakthrough thing for God knows what reason,

I don't know how to draw cars, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I don't know how to draw cars,

I came up with basically a
straight vampire/ghost Batman story. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I came up with basically a straight vampire/ghost Batman sto...

Archie said, "Yeah, do that." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Archie said, "Yeah, do that."

Not just because it was my
story, but it was all my visuals. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Not just because it was my story, but it was all my visuals.

I thought, "If I could
do this, this will work." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I thought, "If I could do this, this will work."

Sanctum. Batman in a
graveyard, falls into the grave, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Sanctum. Batman in a graveyard, falls into the grave,

All of a sudden, he
goes full expressionistic. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

All of a sudden, he goes full expressionistic.

What I loved about the
Legends of the Dark Knight comic - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

What I loved about the Legends of the Dark Knight comic

He really got the sense
that this entire comic - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

He really got the sense that this entire comic

His use of shadows and
silhouette are just fantastic. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

His use of shadows and silhouette are just fantastic.

The way that he's all trunk,
he's just this big bruiser. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

The way that he's all trunk, he's just this big br...

It's frightening in how he clearly is
in touch with a lot of that darkness. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

It's frightening in how he clearly is in touch with a l...

That's as close to a Hellboy
story, as you can imagine. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

That's as close to a Hellboy story, as you can imagine.

That is my kind of story." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

That is my kind of story."

How am I going to get away with
continuing to do stories like that? - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

How am I going to get away with continuing to do stories lik...

The one where I just drew a monster
and then stuck the name Hellboy on it, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

The one where I just drew a monster and then stuck the name ...

I was supposed to do a convention, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I was supposed to do a convention,

When the monster was done, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

When the monster was done,

After I'd done this Batman
book that I plotted myself, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

After I'd done this Batman book that I plotted myself,

I just needed the main character." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I just needed the main character."

If I could get away with that,
that would be the end all, be all. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

If I could get away with that, that would be the end all, be...

I went in the studio, and
I came out later and said, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I went in the studio, and I came out later and said,

The look on her face said, "We're always
going to live in a studio apartment." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

The look on her face said, "We're always going to ...

I'm like, "If that makes you
happy, go ahead and do it." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

I'm like, "If that makes you happy, go ahead and d...

For Hellboy to be the kind of
person that I wanted him to be, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

For Hellboy to be the kind of person that I wanted him to be...

His stories about the GIs and
the people he spent time with, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

His stories about the GIs and the people he spent time with,

Not a mean guy, but he's
physically strong and tough. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Not a mean guy, but he's physically strong and tough.

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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

Writer: N/A

Production: N/A

Genre: documentary

Year: 2022

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Released: 17 Sep 2024

Awards: 8 wins

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