Absolutely a must-have for Mignola’s fans, this compilation’s also a fine reference work for aspiring cartoonists in his vein. Mike Mignola : The Quarantine Sketchbook Review - YouTube 0:00 / 1:25 Mike Mignola : The Quarantine Sketchbook Review Halcyon Realms Art Book Reviews 5. Of course, there are plenty of appearances of Hellboy and his wide supporting cast. Though these are a series of portraits, every sketch is energetic: faces grimace, werewolves drip blood, and monstrosities such as creepily transformed cereal and advertising mascots like Count Chocula radiate menace. Now Mignola has teamed up with artist Greg Hinkle to bring Radio Spaceman (and a few other characters from The Quarantine Sketchbook) to the comics page. His distinctive slope-shouldered, deep-eyed figures read as unearthly and macabre versions of familiar characters like Thundercats and He-Man, Kermit the Frog, and Hanna-Barbera cartoons: the Fred Flintstone family is appropriately Neanderthal, right down to the “it’s a living” mini-mammoth vacuum cleaner. For those that don’t know, Radio Spaceman is a character Mignola drew among his 2020 pandemic sketches that were collected in Mike Mignola: The Quarantine Sketchbook.

The sketches went viral and were the talk of the comics internet. During the coronavirus quarantine, legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola posted original pencil sketches online and auctioned off the art to raise money for Jos Andres’ World Central Kitchen. Monsters, cryptoids, B-movie brutes, skeletons, aliens, dinosaurs, bats, and lots and lots of “skull guys” populate full-page reproductions of Mignola’s superb pencil work. About Mike Mignola: The Quarantine Sketchbook. This treasure-trove gathers them together, with sales to benefit the nonprofit World Central Kitchen. During the coronavirus quarantine, legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola posted original pencil sketches online and auctioned off the art to raise money. Throughout his 2020 Covid-year quarantine, Mignola (the Hellboy series) posted hundreds of figure sketches in his trademark shadowed, spooky style on social media.

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