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Mike Mignola : the quarantine sketchbook / sketches by Mike Mignola ; introduction by Christine Mignola.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781506724270
- ISBN: 1506724272
- Physical Description: 227 pages : chiefly illustrations, portrait ; 31 cm
- Edition: First print edition.
- Publisher: Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics LLC, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Summary, etc.: | "During the coronavirus quarantine, legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola posted original pencil sketches online and auctioned off the art to raise money for José Andres' World Central Kitchen. The sketches went viral and were the talk of the comics internet. Now those sketches are published in print for the first time, with all profitss going to the World Central Kitchen. This new, oversized hardcover collection is a must have for Mignola readers and art fans alike. The book features an introduction by Mignola, alongside sketches of Hellboy, beloved and unexpected pop culture characters, macabre chess pieces, gothic vegetable creatures, strange vampires, and more"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Mignola, Mike > Themes, motives. Pencil drawing, American > 21st century > Themes, motives. Artists > California > 20th century > Biography. Artists > California > 21st century > Biography. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
Publishers Weekly Review
Mike Mignola: the Quarantine Sketchbook
Publishers Weekly
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Throughout his 2020 Covid-year quarantine, Mignola (the Hellboy series) posted hundreds of figure sketches in his trademark shadowed, spooky style on social media. This treasure-trove gathers them together, with sales to benefit the nonprofit World Central Kitchen. Monsters, cryptoids, B-movie brutes, skeletons, aliens, dinosaurs, bats, and lots and lots of "skull guys" populate full-page reproductions of Mignola's superb pencil work. His distinctive slope-shouldered, deep-eyed figures read as unearthly and macabre versions of familiar characters like Thundercats and He-Man, Kermit the Frog, and Hanna-Barbera cartoons: the Fred Flintstone family is appropriately Neanderthal, right down to the "it's a living" mini-mammoth vacuum cleaner. Though these are a series of portraits, every sketch is energetic: faces grimace, werewolves drip blood, and monstrosities such as creepily transformed cereal and advertising mascots like Count Chocula radiate menace. Of course, there are plenty of appearances of Hellboy and his wide supporting cast. Absolutely a must-have for Mignola's fans, this compilation's also a fine reference work for aspiring cartoonists in his vein. (Mar.)
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