Mike Mignola is an illustrator and comic artist whos drawings have an incredible clean graphic style and strong compositions. He does so much with just line and silhouette. The work is very flat, and has such a real sense of movement and weight to each pose.
Known mostly for Hellboy, he’s done work all across comics and film, initially trying to get in the door by Hanging around the marvel offices in New York after he moved there in 1982. Not thinking much of his skills as as inker (this seems crazy to me given how decisive and strong his inks became later), he thought he needed to be close to get work with them, saying they would mostly call on him for short turn-arounds when they were desperate.
“…You didn’t need to be [in New York], unless you were terrible. If you were terrible it was a very good thing to live here…
When you’re terrible, it helps to be close.”
He loves Frank Frazetta, as well as Bernie Wrightson, the creator of Swamp Thing. and his aesthetic feels quite a bit like Frank Miller. His influence seems pretty clear to me on more recent comics like Andrew MacLean’s Head Lopper.
A real hero. I would be into seeing basically anything and everything rendered with his style.
