Wednesday 26 January 2011

File:Hellboy The Wolves of St August.jpgThe first comic that I have chose is the Hellboy comics by Mike Mignola. His style of his work is Mignola is particularly noted for its highly distinctive style, which was once called "German expressionism meets Jack Kirby" in an introduction to a collection of his Hellboy works. Mignola's imagery stood in stark contrast to the style of his contemporaries. Where others would draw muscular men and slim, well-endowed women, Mignola's characters were usually bulky and rough looking, and more often than not defined by large shadowed areas rather than fine details. Mignola often takes the same approach to architecture, particularly in Hellboy. Hellboy is a creature summoned in the final months of World War II on Tarmagant Island off the coast of Scotland. Having been commissioned by the Nazis to change the tide of war. He appears in a fireball in a ruined church in East Bromwich, England, on December 23, 1944. Proving not to be a devil, in the traditional sense, but a devil-like creature with red skin, horns, a tail, and a disproportionately large right hand made of red stone, he is dubbed "Hellboy" by Professor Trevor. Hellboy is taken by the United States armed forces to an Air Force base in New Mexico and is raised by the United States Army and by the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. As an adult, He becomes the primary agent alongside other human agents that include Kate Corrigan, a professor of folklore at New York University. 



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