Happy Birthday, Mike Mignola

Mike Joseph Mignola is best known as the creator of Hellboy. Mignola's career began to bloom at Marvel thanks to runs on Alpha Flight, The Incredible Hulk, and a four-issue Rocket Raccoon miniseries published in 1985.

Mignola really began to gain attention because of his work on the Phantom Stranger (1987) and The World of Krypton four-issue miniseries (both for DC Comics). 1988 was a year of high profile projects for Mignola. He provided the pencil art for the four-issue prestige format miniseries, Cosmic Odyssey, and he drew the covers for the Batman: A Death in the Family storyline.

Mignola's career was already on the fast track when he debuted the character, Hellboy, in the four-issue miniseries, Hellboy: Seed of Destruction. Mignola collections include Hellboy Library Edition, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction and Wake the Devil (v. 1) and B.P.R.D., Vol. 1: Hollow Earth & Other Stories (Hellboy)

Happy 49th Birthday, Mike.