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Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Everybody is sitting on the stoops, and you're in the EastVillage, and it was like, "Wow."

Everybody is sitting on the stoops, and you're in the East
Village, and it was like, "Wow."

Full Transcript

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Everybody is sitting on the stoops,
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and you're in the East Village, and it was like, "Wow."
Duration
6 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:10:48
Uploaded
Apr 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
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N/A

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Movie Summary

A feature length documentary about Mike Mignola and the creation of his comic book universe centered around Hellboy.
I ended up in this loft, and I remember - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:11
I ended up in this loft, and I remember
It was that classic skeevy New York thing, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:07
It was that classic skeevy New York thing,
When you switched on the light, everything started crawling really fast. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:05
When you switched on the light, everything started crawling ...
I said, "Dude, I can't do this." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:11
I said, "Dude, I can't do this."
There was a guy sitting in a half-collapsed cardboard box, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:12
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 00:05
In my mind, it was a G.I. Joe leg, and his foot was pointed ...
I just thought, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:06
I just thought,
At the same time, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:05
At the same time,
My first inking job was five pages of an issue of The Defenders, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:09
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 00:05
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 00:17
But I remember Butch Guice did a pin-up for the Micronauts, ...
I said, "When do you need it?" - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:11
I said, "When do you need it?"
My portfolio was what my portfolio was, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:07
My portfolio was what my portfolio was,
I thought, "I'm going to die here." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:07
I thought, "I'm going to die here."
My brothers said, that my father, who's a very tough guy, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:09
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 00:11
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 00:04
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 00:06
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 00:10
Because somebody's like that poor bastard out there
Thank God, Marvel was publishing so much back then. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:04
Thank God, Marvel was publishing so much back then.