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Mike Mignola: Hellboy 'In the Chapel of Moloch', page 21

Artist: Mike Mignola (All)

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Title:	Mike Mignola: Hellboy 'In the Chapel of Moloch', page 21
Artist:	Mike Mignola (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	3,849
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Favorited on CAF:	3
Comments:	6
Added to Site:	5/7/2010
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(Acquired May 2010, from Mike & CBM, through their cool shop 'artofmikemignola.com')

Meet my grail. A Mike Mignola page. Nobody can do graphic storytelling like mr Mike does, or only the all-time greatest might come close. His covers and pin-ups will have Mignola be quite a name as well, 'though I'll be reserving such for a grail of it's own I guess.

His work delivering such grand imagery, rendered into essentials, in astute and enticing sequencing, allowing for rich mood and intricate pacing. Having everything become its own thing, time and time again, so vividly and so uniquely. Almost like something having actually been devised up by quaint magical leprechauns. Which would of course be cheating.

Hellboy being Mike Mignola's critically acclaimed creator-owned title in comics. A 'blue collar' demonic paranormal investigator, who habitually keeps his horns sawed down to stubs, wearing a trenchcoat with a back-split accommodating his tale, a gunbelt full of stuff, plus his big stone Right Hand of Doom.

A comic character which Mignola dreamed up for being his first-ever fully own thing, for allowing him to work on what he likes to be doing: buff bulky monster fights. Add to that some dark folkloric realism, some ghostly or horrific mystery, a little pulpy cootiness, presented in the popular-iconic comic form. And there we have it.

For me this page shows a lot of all of that: Hellboy landing a critical blow to a big bulky monster, speakingly even (which is another of Mignola's major fortes: striking sound-effect lettering and dialogue), with sending the dislodged evil itself like a cooty critter back into its pit. Having an almost autobiographical-like bald and not tall creator sink into the hold of his caretaker, going: "NOO! It's all I've got... It's all I have left." Showing the sculpted minotaurean brute hurtingly stagger into its demise. That is what I call buff.

[Layout dimensions 11" x 17.5" / 27,9 cm x 44,5 cm]

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max Rugers
Member Since 2004

Posted on 5/7/2010

very, very cool page! ..congrats!!

Neil Hill
Member Since 2006

Posted on 5/7/2010

So utterly 'buff'!

Timothy Finney
Member Since 2006

Posted on 5/9/2010

BOOM!
That about says it all.

Paperchaser 1968
Member Since 2005

Posted on 5/10/2010

BOOM!!! Great page Kees, Congrats!!!!

Fons van Erp
Member Since 2005

Posted on 5/11/2010

Cool page Kees! A dream come true! Congrats!!!

Horacio Alvarez
Member Since 2008

Posted on 11/24/2013

Wooooow amazing page ��

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