Mike Mignola

Michael Mignola is an American comic book writer best known for creating Hellboy, part of a shared universe of titles including B.P.R.D., Abe Sapien, Lobster Johnson, and various spin-offs. He has also created other supernatural and paranormal themed titles including Baltimore, Joe Golem, and The Amazing Screw-On Head. His first published piece was in The Comic Reader #183, a spot illustration of Red Sonja. His first published front cover was The Comic Reader #196 in November 1981. In 1983 he worked as an inker at Marvel on Daredevil and Power Man and Iron Fist and later became the penciler on titles such as The Incredible Hulk, Alpha Flight, and the Rocket Raccoon limited series. In 1987, he began working for DC as well. He drew the Phantom Stranger and World of Krypton limited series. With writer Jim Starlin, Mignola produced the Cosmic Odyssey miniseries in 1988. Writer Brian Augustyn and Mignola crafted the Gotham by Gaslight one-shot in 1989. Prior to 1994 Mignola's career had been spent doing work-for-hire illustration for corporate publishers. That year, Dark Horse released Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, Mignola's creator-owned project. Though he wrote the story himself, it was scripted by John Byrne. Since then all Hellboy stories have been written solely by Mignola with the exception of They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships, which was co-written by Joshua Dysart. While not illustrating any more, he wrote Hellboy after 2006, together with Hellboy spinoffs such as Abe Sapien, B.P.R.D. or Lobster Johnson.