Mike Mignola ~ Two-Face convention sketch

(Obtained from the ever aimiable Fons van Erp, summer 2006)

A pretty detailed sketch by Mike Mignola, done at a US convention somewhere around 1990 in pencil, pen & marker.

For me any of Mike Mignola's art always seems so particularly striking, due to what would seem nifty details, like a gasmask or some extravagant piece of weaponry, or just how a glance or pose would seem subtly striking, even how a jaw or mouth would seem shaped just right.

A pinup such as the Who-'s-Who feature on Two-Face as published in the back of Detective Comics Annual #2 1989. A subtle strikingness, as also featured in my convention sketch, as if it wouldn't be far-fetched to think this piece to being the reason why it would have gotten requested or what it would be made to be conveying in the first place.

Mignola's style seems to pivot around shapes and silhouettes more rather than lines, as well as 'essentiality', as if to be 'downplaying' any nifty details or strikingness for full effect.
Lots of people will just call it 'akin to Kirby', but for me this particular essentiality or soberness has Mike Mignola's art seem unique to me. Or people making art particularly captivating will just be swell.

As if "form would follow out of functionality", as long as esthetics would be striking or telling enough, which would sound like Frank Lloyd Wright or actually his boss Louis Sullivan, but not quite.

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