Happy Birthday, Mike Mignola! (Hellboy)

Mike Mignola, best known as the artist and creator of Hellboy, turns the big five-oh (50) today and The Weirding and The Rundown want to wish him a very happy birthday! Mignola started turning heads back in the late 80s with his work on Big Two titles such as Alpha Flight, The Incredible Hulk, and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight and numerous comic book covers. In 1993, Mike Mignola teamed with other industry heavyweights, such as John Byrne and Frank Miller, to create the Legend imprint under the Dark Horse banner, under which he released Hellboy in 1994.

Mike Mignola continues to write and contribute to Hellboy, which now spans several graphic novels and a number of ongoing titles. He has also written a novel and worked on several Hollywood films (including two adaptations based on his Hellboy series).

Happy birthday, Mikey boy!

© C Harris Lynn, 2010