Mike's books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), was a production designer for Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). There are thirteen Hellboy graphic novels (with more on the way), several spin-off titles ( B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder), prose books, animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman.
In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. “B.P.R.Mike Mignola's fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered.
I look forward to the first omnibus volume. With the Hell On Earth story arc drawing to a close with this 5th volume, the story continues with the new arc The Devil You Know. I fully intend to collect all of these hard cover volumes and they would make for some great binge reading one day. I highly recommend fans of Hellboy to check it out ( if you haven’t already ). All cool stuff.īPRD is really the only US comic series I’m following fairly closely these days, with a great storyline and fantastic art work.
Just like previous volumes this book also includes a sizeable collection of concept art sketches, cover art and studies. This particular volume does not feature any art work done by one of my favorite comic artist James Harren, but it’s still in excellent hands with the beautiful work of Laurence Campbell, Peter Snejbjerg and the Argentinian artist Julian Totino Tedesco. This is the 5th ( and concluding ) hardcover volume from the Hell On Earth arc ( read my review for Vol 3 and Vol 4 ) and collects number 12-13 and 15 of the trade paperback volumes as well as a sketch book section. B.P.R.D ( Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense ) is the spin-off comic series from Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, taking place in the same expanded universe as the organization’s “enhanced” agents like Liz Sherman, Abe Sapien and Johann Krauss battle the Ogdru Jahad that first appeared in the Hellboy comics.
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