Christine and Mike Mignola recently were awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award at SDCC, for their fundraising for Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen. Mike has been very quick to say he was just drawing to stay sane, while Christine did all the hard work coordinating and organizing the auction and donations. Online auction sales of the sketches have raised over $420,000, while the publishing of the book is expected to increase the contribution to at least half a mil (according to the SDCC page). Good people, good cause, great drawings!
It was pretty great seeing his mostly dead, PR centered, instagram account, suddenly just burst alive with these wonderful drawings in the middle of the pandemic. I assumed that I'd barely get anything out of following that account, and then I suddenly got the kind of drawings I would've killed to see back when I was obsessively trying to figure out how to draw like him. I inked a few too, but I got cold feet about posting them when I saw Mahfood and a few other pros do it.
Love Mignola's shape language, seeing just his pencil work here is great! I'd love to have a sculpture set of some of the creatures drawn here - they look cohesive like they belong in one giant Mignola universe. Always loved how he drew skeletons - not anatomically correct but every angle or line plays a role in a good silhouette and is very intentionally skewed to his liking
I've been waiting to see you guys cover this since it came out. Seeing these appear on Mignola's instagram account helped get me through quarantine honestly. Love this book and the fact that it fits perfectly with the Library Editions.
Sad to see that some of my favourites didn't make the book, he did a lot of pokemon stuff (a request from his daughter if I remember correctly), godzilla/kaiju and ultra man. It was those kaiju ones that led him onto doing the giant mech Hellboy. Great stuff though, Mignola's style will always be my favourite.
Also cool fact: the main Chef/creator of World Central Kitchen Chef Jose Andres was recently awarded 100 million by Jeff Bezos. So Mike Mignola was really onto something in seeing the potential in this great organization.
Love seeing Mignola's pencils. Bummed to see the Harryhausen/Kaiju/Ultraman stuff didn't make it into the book. I actually requested the Harryhausen Ymir and then lost the auction to my buddy ISH from Mondo.
Just pass over my boy Touche Turtle like that, alright... As someone else said, I didnt really appreciate Mignola when I came across him in comics in the late 80s early 90s because I was so into the "normal" X-Men type comics that when something like this turned up, it would really turn me off. I think the Wolverine Savage Land story was the only one I liked but I appreciate his work so much more now and this series of sketches are fantastic.
Even though I own this, I only noticed the mask on Hellboy 3 seconds before you mentioned it, and didn't make the virus connection at all until you mentioned it. Just too keen to look inside, I guess
I find it utterly freaking BONKERS that Mignola doesn't think his art is any good. He's his own worst critic and I keep thinking "I'm trying not to scream that you're one of the most unique comic creators in the Western mainstream."
Christine and Mike Mignola recently were awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award at SDCC, for their fundraising for Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen. Mike has been very quick to say he was just drawing to stay sane, while Christine did all the hard work coordinating and organizing the auction and donations. Online auction sales of the sketches have raised over $420,000, while the publishing of the book is expected to increase the contribution to at least half a mil (according to the SDCC page). Good people, good cause, great drawings!
This is so cool. Mignola still does covers but I miss his comics
We need more Mignola drawn comics !
It was pretty great seeing his mostly dead, PR centered, instagram account, suddenly just burst alive with these wonderful drawings in the middle of the pandemic. I assumed that I'd barely get anything out of following that account, and then I suddenly got the kind of drawings I would've killed to see back when I was obsessively trying to figure out how to draw like him.
I inked a few too, but I got cold feet about posting them when I saw Mahfood and a few other pros do it.
The Hanna Barbera character with the "F" is Frankenstein Jr. The Hanna Barbera octupus is Squiddly Diddly from the Secret Squirrel show.
Love Mignola's shape language, seeing just his pencil work here is great! I'd love to have a sculpture set of some of the creatures drawn here - they look cohesive like they belong in one giant Mignola universe. Always loved how he drew skeletons - not anatomically correct but every angle or line plays a role in a good silhouette and is very intentionally skewed to his liking
Mignola doing Tartakovskys Primal would be amazing
The character at 9:26 is named Squiddly Diddly, an old Hanna Barbera character from the late 60's
I would love to see an episode where you three guys each pick one of those drawings and ink them all at the same time.
around 9:30... that squid w/ the sailor hat has to be the HB cartoon character "Squiddly Diddly."
He draws volumes so good they look solid and perfect like a cg sculpt turnaround on pause but better.
I've been waiting to see you guys cover this since it came out. Seeing these appear on Mignola's instagram account helped get me through quarantine honestly. Love this book and the fact that it fits perfectly with the Library Editions.
Mike Mignola's war on shoulders
A Mignola Conan would be incredible.
(And imaging spot varnish on a matte page is mind blowing.)
Yes sir! You guys are all true artist because you analyze all the details. Great job!
Sad to see that some of my favourites didn't make the book, he did a lot of pokemon stuff (a request from his daughter if I remember correctly), godzilla/kaiju and ultra man. It was those kaiju ones that led him onto doing the giant mech Hellboy. Great stuff though, Mignola's style will always be my favourite.
Man, his stuff is so inspiring.
A legend ❤❤❤❤
Also cool fact: the main Chef/creator of World Central Kitchen Chef Jose Andres was recently awarded 100 million by Jeff Bezos. So Mike Mignola was really onto something in seeing the potential in this great organization.
Love seeing Mignola's pencils. Bummed to see the Harryhausen/Kaiju/Ultraman stuff didn't make it into the book. I actually requested the Harryhausen Ymir and then lost the auction to my buddy ISH from Mondo.
9.30 Sqiddly Diddly and Touche Turtle. Mignola did concept art for Disney's Atlantis:The Lost Continent - there's some nice images on the DVD extras
That was Frankenstein Jr
Sort of a He-Man comic, granted NOT interior art, Mignola's drawing in this book was used for MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: REVELATION #1.
Mignola has relatively recently done Marvel covers, incl Fantastic Four, for "mature Mignola going deep on Marvel"
I tried to bid on these. Yes, your best hope was to spend $1K on a flower head guys hahaha
The Octopus is Squiddly Diddly from Hanna Barbera and the Turtle is Tuchê the turtle also from Hanna Barbera
Just pass over my boy Touche Turtle like that, alright...
As someone else said, I didnt really appreciate Mignola when I came across him in comics in the late 80s early 90s because I was so into the "normal" X-Men type comics that when something like this turned up, it would really turn me off. I think the Wolverine Savage Land story was the only one I liked but I appreciate his work so much more now and this series of sketches are fantastic.
Hey Jim and Tom That’s the Hanna barbera character squiddly diddly
Even though I own this, I only noticed the mask on Hellboy 3 seconds before you mentioned it, and didn't make the virus connection at all until you mentioned it. Just too keen to look inside, I guess
I find it utterly freaking BONKERS that Mignola doesn't think his art is any good. He's his own worst critic and I keep thinking "I'm trying not to scream that you're one of the most unique comic creators in the Western mainstream."
They definitely cut some stuff. I remember Pokemon.
It's a great book, but I think it could have been slightly better if it had the title of each piece under it & maybe a note or two