Mike Mignola is a comic book author and illustrator from California who has wrote things such as the Hellboy comics.
Subjects, themes, issues
The subjects covered by Mike Mignola are mainly to do with evil and fear in comic book form. Such as in picture three there is the fear of having a hand grab out at you or in picture one the skeleton like creatures in the background.
A lot of his work is dark and mysterious. He sets the scene and then lets the person viewing it's imagination take it away. In some of his work it is often very minamalistic colours and dark colours and then one vibrant colour showing the most imporant part of the picture, such as hell boy is often shown in bright red on a black background.
Most of his work focuses around skeletons and mythical beasts, he manages to cleverly go into alot of detail in his pictures using only black and white mainly. Using the detail he creates it really helps the person viewing get a feel for the image.
Movement, styles
He is a successful comic book artist who works for Dark Horse Comics. Hellboy, one of his comics has been made into a very popular film. His work has become an insperation to many other comic book artists because of his work.
His style is very graphic novel like and great. Some of his recent work has been influenced by Guillero Del Toro's love of mythical creatures so his more recent comics are still done in his style but with more beasts and abomonations which would be expected when working with the creator of Pan's Labyrinth.
Context of work
The context of his work is to go into comic books. He will be doing most of his drawings for Dark Horse Comics and the comics they are creating but occasionally he will go off and do his own thing.
Materials and processes
The materials he uses will be ink on paper. The colouring is done by another person and is more likely done by scanning in Mingola's drawings then colouring on photoshop or something similar.
Events, trends
His work may not have any trends or events because as a comic book designer he will be drawing diffrent things for example one day he could be creating a comic about a Detective and the next about a Thief. It will most likely be completely random.
Picture One: In the Chapel of Moloch.
Picture Two: Skeleton Head and Chicken.
Picture Three: Hellboy with Spear.
Picture Four: Baltimore Cover.
Picture Five: Wild Hunt #7.
Picture Six: Oddest Jobs.
I would like to use the way Mike creates in-depth pictures using minamalistic detail like picture 3 you can tell it is night, he is in some sort of mountain or rocky place and he is being attacked by something beneath him all from that simple picture.
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