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[)gdgp , g)“: ‘. . into Mignola's working methods; what this book aims at is showing us the results of the artist’s 000 efforts (Mignola‘s a painful perfectionist, as the many previously unseen abandoned illustrations in this tome prove). » .2: ‘ In the years between starting out drawing superhero strips for Marvel and DC and reaching the ;' a: " .-/- _' peak of his game with the ongoing irregular Hellboy series (soon to be a major film via Mexican w: : .: filmmaker Guillermo del Toro), Mignola has been refining his art. The bold shadow work, which )Il. ' "t~'. " defines - like a photographic negative - most of what he illustrates, the simple black lines and the . .' two plane separation (for example, bright background/dark foreground and vice versa) set Mignola :)-. -:.7 \'~ apart from those within his field, and those without. « s i All we need now is a full-blown art gallery exhibition. (Miles Fielder) ' I TITs Ass AND " j ~ - REAf. ESTATE " ' "5 Eve Gilbert "' ' '- .". . :«:‘ ==~iyzm oooo 3' '44» .3" ' . . , ‘ "7 '2 , . r I' (I; .4 Joe Matt loses his comic collection in Fair Weather 2 : 31;. 2,4»- -:' .: '. ' I: , .' :.»': 91:. Liza-