DC: Are there any worlds/scenarios/creatures you still want Hellboy to encounter? The guys I come up with from scratch-it depends on the story of course, but mostly it’s just a matter of coming up with some kind of shape I like. MM: Well, in Hellboy most of the stuff is actually borrowed from some old myths or folktales, so I usually have some vague description to start with. DC: How do you start creating an original monster? What’s your process in developing and creating your creatures? But then he refused to stay gone, so he returned in Darkness Calls and very much took over that book and a couple of books that came after. ![]() I created him-actually I borrowed him from English folklore-in the Hellboy story “The Corpse,” and thought I was done with him. So I really fell in love with the little pig guy, the Gruagach. MM: Favorite monster? Other than Hellboy? I usually forget he’s a monster. DC: Do you have a favorite monster that you’ve personally created in your works? It was an odd thing, but sometimes (when you’re lucky) the writing goes like that. I wrote the plots and had originally thought the stories would be mostly silent, but when I saw the art the words sort of just…presented themselves. Then we bounced some sketches back and forth for a couple of the locations, and that was pretty much it. I think within a day or two of discussing doing stories, I was sending her my ideas. I was inspired by Rachele’s sketches of that little vampire girl, and the stories came really fast. That was me.” DC: What was the collaborative process like with Aragno for Leonide? It’s almost like somebody else created the thing and every once in a while it just hits me-“Oh, wait. MM: So strange-especially because after a while it doesn’t seem strange anymore. DC: What’s it been like to really see the impact of Hellboy on popular culture? But what’s the fascination? Escape? I don’t know. Then, of course, reading Dracula around age thirteen really cinched the deal. There was also a book there on ghosts-it had a really great “true” photo of a ghost on the cover-scared the crap out of me, but I must have checked that one out a dozen times. I would have been, what? Eleven or twelve. I remember checking a book out of the elementary school library over and over, a big colorful thing all about Norse mythology. Was it a movie I saw as a kid- Jason And The Argonauts, maybe? That would have done it. All I know is that I’ve been fascinated for as long as I can remember. Mike Mignola: What is it about monsters:-I don’t know. Dread Central: What is it about monsters that you believe is so alluring? We spoke with Mignola over email about his new projects, monsters, being the creator of such an iconic character, his new comics, and more. He’s also collaborating on one-off projects such as Leonide the Vampyr: Miracle at Crow’s Head (out now) with artist Rachele Aragno. And Mignola isn’t just working on projects with Hellboy. Anastasia Bransfield for a goblin train heist story. But Mignola still has a lot in store for the big man, especially in the new series Hellboy In Love, coming October 19, that sees Hellboy reuniting with Dr. ![]() There’s even a documentary coming out about Mignola’s iconic work that’s playing across the country this spooky season. Hellboy has been in the pop culture zeitgeist since 1993 and has been adapted onto the big screen a few times. The comics then follow Hellboy and other members of the bureau saving humanity from supernatural threats. ![]() ![]() But, he grew up in the care of a nice British man who just so happens to found the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD). Mike Mignola is the creative mind behind the big, red hero known as Hellboy, a half-demon brought to Earth as a baby by Nazi occultists.
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