The Art of Hellboy: Amazon.ca: Mike Mignola: Books

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Ottakar's Outland Magazine Issue 31, Autumn 2004 : "Rather like an X'-File' investigating the 'X-files', the lantern chinned, wisecracking Hellboy is one of the most endearing heroes to have emerged in comics for a long time, coming across as fresh, inventive, and, above all, highly entertaining."

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This hardcover looks at the evolution of Mike Mignola's art over ten years on his award-winning, soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture comics series. Featuring previously unpublished art, unused and unfinished covers, and drawing upon ten years of sketchbooks, "The Art of Hellboy" provides an inside look at Mignola's design, storytelling and colour work.

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The first drawing of Hellboy. Read the first page

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3.0 out of 5 stars Before you spurge on this, do consider..., May 12 2004

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Jonathan (Langley, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Art of Hellboy (Hardcover)

I would be warry of spending too many of your hard earned dollars on this book. I am a new fan to Hellboy, and absolutely love Mignola's art. However, the reason I would be heasitant about recommending this art book is that there is very little new art in it. Most of it is just rehashed covers, pages and posters. Probably about 10% of it is stuff that you've never seen before; which in my mind, does not warrant the hefty price tag. If you have all the books in the series then you already have 90% of the art found in this book. The sketches and other doodles that are only in this book can most likely be found floating around the net if you look hard enough for it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 200 pages of pure Love of Comic Art., Jan 13 2004

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Richard A. Tucker "Tucker at large" (Pembroke Pines, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of Hellboy (Hardcover)

Mike Mignola is the master of what not to put in a finished peice of art. While he draws loads of details with the original pencil lines as soon as the ink is applied, he buries them. What makes that technique work so well is that regardless of no evidence of the black flooded pencils the viewer knows the details are there. That masterful ambiguity is what makes the Hellboy art so creepy, menacing. From out of the shadows lurch horrors not meant for the eyes of humans. This is quirky, fun and scary without having to overwork the skilled designs and careful layouts. When I look at all the cartoony comic artists, with their minimalist leanings, and contrast them with the guys who insist on drawing every hair on a head while laying in invented overdone musculature that fairly bulges through a sweatshirt, it is refreshing to see Mignola's seeming ease and inpeccable black spotting that shapes even the things not seen, but definitely suspected, along with shambling ancient horror and explosions of combative violence in the defense of the human race against festering ancient evil.Words? In this book? My brain is full of words unread but ever present. That's Mike's other gift to me.My only question is when will we see a volume collecting his myriad other works?

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2.0 out of 5 stars Oh, hell with it, July 4 2003

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n0s4a2 (Burbank, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Art of Hellboy (Hardcover)

Mike Mignola's comic books are great. You should buy them instead of this overpriced collection of Mignola art. The very thing that makes Hellboy so beautiful, the simplicity and elegance of design, means that looking at a Mignola sketch is exactly like looking at a finished comic book panel, except you can see the India ink brush marks in the black areas, and there is no supporting narrative thrust to give the picture meaning. The same goes for his pencils (of which there are few included- I don't think this guy makes a mark on paper without inking and publishing it). There is not even a discussion of Mignola's sources or inspirations, no bibliography of the occult (oh, I forgot, we're living in post-literate America). There is no insight to be gained by investing in the Art of Hellboy, because it is just a sampler of beautifully designed panels that look better in the comic books.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely gorgeous
I don't know if I'd really say that Mike Mignola is one of my 100%, all-time favorite artists, though I do like his work. Read more

Published on April 28 2003 by PCM2

4.0 out of 5 stars Great art collection
I paid retail for this book and have no qualms about doing so. It's defintely worth it, whether bought from Amazon or some other vendor. Read more

Published on April 16 2003 by Babytoxie