Notes Design

The June issue of Wired magazine has a short interview with comic book artist Mike Mignol, the creator of Hellboy and the sinister world he occupies. Collaborating with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and 3-D computer artist Francisco Ruiz Velasco, a new book Hellboy II: The Art of the Movie documents the translation of sketch to screen.

"Del Toro and [3-D artist] Francisco Ruiz Velasco would talk about my drawings in Spanish," Mignola recalls, "but I knew damned well what they were saying: Add 600 gears, make sure smoke comes out of it, and get it to spin around so the guy's head comes off.' What you see in the book is how a simple thing gets turned into something much more."