Quotes About Mignola

#1. Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.

Christopher Golden

#2. I've really enjoyed B.R.P.D. since its first days when Guy Davis was an artist on the title, and if anyone is looking for an end of the world Cthulhu apocalypse title, Mignola and Arcudi and the artists who work the title do a fantastic job.

Ben Peek

#3. Death is complicated."

-Johann Kraus

John Arcudi

#4. I'm sure this is a diversionary ploy. But that doesn't mean it isn't real.
-Abe Sapien

John Arcudi

#5. Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.

Mike Mignola

#6. The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.

Mike Mignola

#7. Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse
no matter the people
no matter the language
Man has given a thousand different namesto his god, but look into the face of each one
long enough
hard enough
You will find one truth.

Mike Mignola

#8. Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.

Mike Mignola

#9. There's a ton of stuff in mythology and folklore that is loaded with wonderful creatures that I haven't drawn yet, but that's kind of my retirement plan. Theoretically, I won't be doing comics any longer, and I'll just be drawing and painting whatever the hell I want. Most of that will be monsters.

Mike Mignola

#10. When the first 'Hellboy' series came out, in the same batch of fan mail I got a letter from somebody from the Church of Satan, and I got a letter from a minister, and they both liked it. And I thought, 'What am I doing that I'm making both these guys happy?'

Mike Mignola

#11. I've always been much more comfortable with drawing fantasy stuff.

Mike Mignola

#12. I did not say it was true, only that I believe it.

Mike Mignola

#13. I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.

Mike Mignola

#14. But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.

Mike Mignola

#15. Because of television, sports columnists have become personalities. I went to a party [during Super Bowl week] and there must have been 500 people who wanted to talk to me because they saw me on TV. I've become sort of the Soupy Sales character on TV, and people do not really know me as a writer.

Woody Paige

#16. I don't fight people for fun.

Fred Durst

#17. Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure ... but now you've just gone nuts!

Mike Mignola

#18. Saving time = wasting time.

Behdad Sami

#19. The idea of a Frankenstein-like creature is something I've done several times. It's such an icon of the horror scene.

Mike Mignola

#20. I do think there's a difference when you see a book where you can tell the creator's doing something they really love or are really passionate about as opposed to an artist or a writer who is just doing a particular job or trying to sell a product or trying to cash in on a popular trend.

Mike Mignola

#21. I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

George Bernard Shaw

#22. When I started the 'Hellboy' series way back when, I wasn't really thinking consciously about the humor, but Hellboy does have my personality, and that's an important part of my personality.

Mike Mignola

#23. With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves ...

Mike Mignola

#24. Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.

Mike Mignola

#25. No rain but thunder, and the sound of giants.

Mike Mignola

#26. This is a grave. There is no honor here in broken tools and old bones, only in the deeds of our children.

Mike Mignola

#27. I'm thinking about color all the time. Sometimes even as far back as the plotting sequence.

Mike Mignola

#28. My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, but it takes a year to draw them. So for me, it's been just trying to find a way to get all these ideas and all these incidents on paper.

Mike Mignola

#29. All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Philip Johnson

#30. I'd be the first to admit that I have no shortage of faults.
But if I had to pick one, the one that's gotten me into the most trouble over the years...
...it would be that I sometimes get angry.

Mike Mignola