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Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

When Mike started writing, Hellboy became a muchbetter, madder, weirder book

When Mike started writing, Hellboy became a much
better, madder, weirder book

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When Mike started writing,
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Hellboy became a much better, madder, weirder book.
Duration
8 seconds
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19
Timestamp in Movie
00:41:25
Uploaded
Apr 28, 2025
Genres
documentary
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Movie Summary

A feature length documentary about Mike Mignola and the creation of his comic book universe centered around Hellboy.
And the book went on to be hugely successful. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:04
And the book went on to be hugely successful.
That changed everything. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:04
That changed everything.
Mr. Mignola, take us around your lovely studio. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:04
Mr. Mignola, take us around your lovely studio.
One of the things that distinguishes Hellboy in the time that it appeared is - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:09
One of the things that distinguishes Hellboy in the time tha...
He's just really dedicated to art and to mythology. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:05
He's just really dedicated to art and to mythology.
Mignola clearly loves reading and reads deeply; - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:08
Mignola clearly loves reading and reads deeply;
He's just created this beautiful and tragic supernatural world. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:05
He's just created this beautiful and tragic supernatura...
I never read anything that analyzes fairy tales and folklore - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:08
I never read anything that analyzes fairy tales and folklore
I've tried to maintain and maybe focus on the strange rhythms to those stories - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:12
I've tried to maintain and maybe focus on the strange r...
I just always love whenever he's using folklore in his stuff, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:15
I just always love whenever he's using folklore in his ...
Even if later, you go like, "Wait, what?" - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:05
Even if later, you go like, "Wait, what?"
Del Toro and I would always refer to this fairytale logic, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:06
Del Toro and I would always refer to this fairytale logic,
But if you read enough of that stuff, you go, "This feels right." - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:11
But if you read enough of that stuff, you go, "This fee...
And I think Hellboy really speaks - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:07
And I think Hellboy really speaks
I was raised Catholic, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:09
I was raised Catholic,
It's clear Mignola is very well-read and very much in love with all this lore. - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:06
It's clear Mignola is very well-read and very much in l...
Every demon from every narrative you've ever imagined - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:06
Every demon from every narrative you've ever imagined
He uses all these stories from all over the world - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:10
He uses all these stories from all over the world
Hellboy was always the kind of book - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:06
Hellboy was always the kind of book
So although it was not blowing anybody's minds in terms of its sales, - Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters 00:09
So although it was not blowing anybody's minds in terms...