C2E2: HELLBOY GETS ITTY
BITTY!
Aw Yeah Comics and Tiny Titans creators Art
Baltazar and
Franco Aureliani take on Mike Mignola’s cast of
characters in a
brand-new all-ages
title
CHICAGO, IL, APRIL 28–Art
Baltazar and Franco Aureliani have created quite a stir with their work on some
of the most fun and ageless comics of all time. They won an Eisner for Tiny
Titans, their treatment of DC Comics’ Teen Titans, and their recent
Kickstarter campaign for their Aw Yeah Comics series surpassed its goal
in record time.
Now, this dynamic duo takes on Dark Horse’s best-known character, Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, in an all-new comics series, Itty Bitty Hellboy!
A ghost named Rasputin has been
spotted. And Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. are going to find out what’s he up to. Who
is Hellboy, anyway? Why does he have such a big hand, and what is it used
for? Who’s weirder, he or his friends? What is the B.P.R.D.? And what does
chicken soup have to do with all of it? All this and more will be
answered in the debut issue, where BIG things happen to Itty Bitty
Hellboy!
“Itty Bitty HELLBOY! WOW! Such
awesomeness! I haven’t screamed so much AW YEAH SHOUTOUTS in all my life! It is
truly an honor to be the next creative team to add to the HELLBOY saga! I have
been a fan of Mike Mignola since Hellboy’s early days at Dark Horse LEGENDS!
It’s true. Can’t wait! Itty Bitty has never been so HUGE! AW YEAH HELLBOY!” said
Art Baltazar, famous cartoonist.
“We get to work on HELLBOY? HELL
YEAH!” exclaimed Franco Aureliani. “One of the most iconic characters in all of
comics, and we get to bring our own style and story to it! Truly a dream come
true! We’re big fans! Itty Bitty Hellboy is going to be a lot of fun
. . . and we get to actually say HELL(BOY)!”
“Given the recent developments in Hellboy’s life—falling in love, discovering that he’s the rightful king of England, having his heart torn out and dropped into hell—this is clearly the next logical step in his evolution,” said Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.
For more information, check out the exclusive interview with Art & Franco on Nerdist News!
Itty Bitty Hellboy #1 arrives on shelves at your local comic shop on August 28!
“Given the recent developments in Hellboy’s life—falling in love, discovering that he’s the rightful king of England, having his heart torn out and dropped into hell—this is clearly the next logical step in his evolution,” said Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.
For more information, check out the exclusive interview with Art & Franco on Nerdist News!
Itty Bitty Hellboy #1 arrives on shelves at your local comic shop on August 28!
DUNCAN
FEGREDO RETURNS TO MIKE MIGNOLA’S HELLBOY IN AN ALL-NEW ORIGINAL GRAPHIC
NOVEL!
CHICAGO,
IL, APRIL 27–Following up on a collaboration which spanned multiple series,
leading up to Mike Mignola’s return to both writing and drawing his beloved
demon, artist Duncan Fegredo returns to tell a story about a young Hellboy’s
first brush with hell.
In
this beautifully drawn fifty-six-page graphic novel, a young Hellboy runs away
from the B.P.R.D., only to stumble upon a weird and fantastical circus and the
few demons from hell who inhabit it.
“This
one owes a lot to Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes (pretty
much my favorite circus story of all time), but even more to
Pinocchio—especially all the spooky, disturbing bits Disney left out. And
the work Duncan is doing here is just flat-out amazing,” said Mike
Mignola.
“Growing
up is tough enough, even when you don’t know the weight of the world rests on
the future of your yet-diminutive shoulders. Mike has woven a tale of coming of
age for the young Hellboy made all the more poignant for knowing his future.
Wonderful, magical, terrifying, this is epic Hellboy on a smaller stage,” Duncan
Fegredo added.
Hellboy:
The Midnight Circus arrives
in a beautiful hardcover format similar to the previously released Hellboy:
House of the Living Dead (created in collaboration with legendary artist
Richard Corben in 2011). This new tale arrives on shelves on October 23,
carrying a retail price of $14.99.
Praise
for previous collaborations:
“Fegredo (and colorist Dave Stewart) do wonders with negative space here, and [Nimue] looks so amazingly creepy as she performs one final act of evil that it gives that climactic scene the visual punch to make sure you remember it for a long time to come.”—Comic Book Resources
“Fegredo (and colorist Dave Stewart) do wonders with negative space here, and [Nimue] looks so amazingly creepy as she performs one final act of evil that it gives that climactic scene the visual punch to make sure you remember it for a long time to come.”—Comic Book Resources
“I
love the use of shadow and color in this book, and the layouts in particular
really flow fast. Fegredo in particular excels with the composition of his
figures—this is definitely a fight comic all the way, and seeing Hellboy get
tossed around like a doll really helps play up the
stakes.”—Newsarama
For
more information on Hellboy: The Midnight Circus, check out the exclusive
interview with Mike Mignola on Comic Book Resources.
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