With the Hellboy Artist’s Edition, I had picked out panels and images from the comic stories to use as design elements. This book was all about textures, layering, aging and creepiness. There are some interesting notes along page margins, along with the occasional small illustration.ĭahlk continues the design from Mike Mignola’s Hellboy In Hell and Other Stories Artist’s Edition, with weathered paper, textures and scraps. The Amazing Screw-On Head and Rusty Razorclam are wonderfully fun reads and only improve in this format.įew pages show any ageing, with Rusty Razorclam being the oldest here and is slightly yellowed. Unfortunately, half the included stories have no lettering, and with the extensive cover gallery, only about 25% of this book contains pages that can be read. Blacks are such a key part of Mignola’s work that they dominate every page, and the blacks here are murky with such varied gradients. I consider the stories collected in The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects to be the best work I’ve done in comics-certainly they are my favorite-so I’m thrilled to see them getting the IDW Artist’s Edition treatment.Īll pages are scanned from original art, no fillers, with most if not all coming from Mignola’s personal archives. Closing out the book is a one-page biography.
A fine collection of Mignola’s short stories along with a vast gallery of covers, spanning a large portion of his career.
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