Hellboy - 'Seed of Destruction' #2 (October 1994).
Mike Mignola started his career publishing comics in fanzine The Comic Reader at age nineteen in 1981. In 1983, he was employed by Marvel Comics as an inker. In this capacity, he worked on such titles as 'Power Man & Iron Fist', 'Masters of Kung-Fu', 'Daredevil' and 'The Defenders'. He eventually got the opportunity to pencil his own short stories in Marvel Fanfare. In 1985, his own comic mini-series 'Rocket Raccoon' was published, while he also contributed to 'The Incredible Hulk' and 'Alpha Flight'.
Since 1986, Mignola is an independent artist, working on titles for both Marvel and DC, including the miniseries 'The Chronicles of Corum' (1987-88), 'Phantom Stranger' (1987-88), 'World of Krypton' (with John Byrne, 1987-88), 'Cosmic Odyssey' (with Jim Starlin, 1988), 'Triumph and Torment' (1989), 'Gotham by Gaslight' (1989), 'Wolverine: the Jungle Adventure' (with Walter Simonson, 1990), 'Ironwolf: Fires of the Revolution' (with Howard Chaykin and Alan Moore, 1992), and 'Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser' (1990).
Hellboy - 'The Third Wish' #2 (August 2002).
Besides his contributions to Marvel and DC, Mignola worked on the comic adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's 'Dracula' for Topps Comics (1993), and on 'Aliens: Salvation' with Dave Gibbons for Dark Horse (1993). Halfway through the nineties, he created his own character, the supernatural detective 'Hellboy', who starred in miniseries and graphic novels published by Dark Horse, in which the artist could display the full range of his talent.
Hellboy - 'The Island' #1 (June 2005).
Mignola worked with Guillermo Del Toro on a film version of 'Hellboy', released in 2004. He has also participated in other cinema projects, such as 'Blade 2' and Disney's 'Atlantis: the Lost Empire'.
Mike Mignola was an influence on Dan Mora and Freddie E. Williams II. In Canada, he influenced Travis Charest and Simon Pothier, in France, Benoît Springer, in Belgium, Serge Buyse and Erik Wielaert , while in Switzerland, Philippe Wurm is an admirer.
'Zombie World'.