Hellboy Volume 10: The Crooked Man and Others
Hellboy Volume 10: The Crooked Man and Others

Author: Mike Mignola

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2010-06-08

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1621150631

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The Eisner Award-winning miniseries The Crooked Man, by Mignola and Richard Corben, teams Hellboy with a wandering hillman in a devilish tale of Appalachian witchcraft. This volume also includes the rare "They Who Go Down to the Sea in Ships" by Mignola, Josh Dysart (B.P.R.D.: 1947), and Jason Shawn Alexander (Abe Sapien: The Drowning), never before available for purchase; Mignola and Duncan Fegredo's "The Mole," from Free Comic Book Day 2008; and Mignola's most recent solo outing, "In the Chapel of Moloch." * Also includes a look into the artists' sketchbooks! * 2009 Eisner Award winner for Best Limited Series! "Richard Corben shows these youngsters how it's done... and it's so good, in its grotesquely beautiful way." -Comic Book Resources

Hellboy: The Crooked Man #1
Hellboy: The Crooked Man #1

Author: Mike Mignola

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)

Published: 2011-04-20

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13:

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In 1956, somewhere in the mountains of West Virginia, Hellboy encounters Tom, a man who in his youth sold his soul to a backwoods demon known as the Crooked Man. Together they travel back into the dark heart of the Appalachian mountains to confront that demon and see if Tom's soul can't be saved. This three-issue series reunites Mignola and legendary horror artist Richard Corben (_Hellboy in Mexico, Hellboy: Makoma, Hellboy: Being Human_) in a tale of witchcraft rooted in Appalachian folklore. Mignola and Corben team up for the first time since _Makoma_! **Award-winning artist Richard Corben returns to _Hellboy_!**

Hellboy in Hell Library Edition
Hellboy in Hell Library Edition

Author: Mike Mignola

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1506703631

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After sacrificing himself to save the world, this epic conclusion of Hellboy's story follows him on a journey through Hell, where he once again faces off against the Vampire of Prague, pleads his case when accused of murder, and fulfills his destiny by destroying Pandemonium itself. This deluxe, oversized hardcover edition collects Hellboy in Hell: The Descent and The Death Card, plus an expanded sketchbook section. Mignola's complete Hellboy in Hell saga! ""The prophecies are coming to pass, the threads all coming together. It's a thing of true beauty, really. When it comes down to it, Mike Mignola creating, writing, and drawing the character feels like one of the most important things to ever happen to the medium . . . Epic, perfectly paced, and profoundly dark. Hellboy is comics. It's what the medium is all about."--Nerdist "Hellboy in Hell may be Mike Mignola's masterpiece . . . Mignola's sparse illustration is given deep, complex mood thanks to Stewart's transfixing color palettes. Grab the first volume, sit down with both of these monsters, and sink into the storytelling."--The Creator's Project

Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 2
Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 2

Author: Mike Mignola

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2018-08-28

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 150670686X

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This 368-page volume covers Hellboy's adventures from 1961 to 1993, leading up to Seed of Destruction. It includes stories from the Hellboy collections The Troll Witch, The Chained Coffin, The Bride of Hell, The Right Hand of Doom, and The Crooked Man, including "Heads," "Buster Oakley Gets His Wish," and "A Christmas Underground With over 100 pages drawn by Mignola himself, The Complete Short Stories Vol. 2 features an incredible roster of artists! The two Short Stories volumes, along with the four-volume Hellboy Omnibus series, collect all of Mignola's award-winning Hellboy stories in chronological order for a definitive reading experience. Unaware of his role as Beast of the Apocalypse, Hellboy travels the world to find his first brushes with the royalty of Hell and the otherworldly Ogdru Hem, while shooting out the Baba Yaga's eye and getting a glimpse of his possible fate in the epic African adventure "Makoma."

Hellboy: The Crooked Man #2
Hellboy: The Crooked Man #2

Author: Mike Mignola

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)

Published: 2011-08-24

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13:

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A lifetime ago, Tom sold his soul to a devil of old Appalachia. Now, he and Hellboy are fighting to win it backthrough the witch who first lured it away and a host of supernatural horrors as old as the land itself. This three-issue series reunites Mignola and legendary horror artist Richard Corben (_Hellboy in Mexico, Hellboy: Makoma, Hellboy: Being Human_) in a tale of witchcraft rooted in Appalachian folklore.

Hellboy: The Crooked Man #3
Hellboy: The Crooked Man #3

Author: Mike Mignola

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)

Published: 2011-04-20

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13:

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Trapped in a crumbling church, Hellboy must save a man's soul from ancient witches, a rain of exploding corpses, and finally the evil magic of the Crooked Man himself. This three-issue series reunites Mignola and legendary horror artist Richard Corben (_Hellboy in Mexico, Hellboy: Makoma, Hellboy: Being Human_) in a tale of witchcraft rooted in Appalachian folklore.

Hellboy Volume 12: The Storm and the Fury
Hellboy Volume 12: The Storm and the Fury

Author: Mike Mignola

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2012-03-20

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 162115016X

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Hellboy cuts a deal with the devious Baba Yaga that may secure the survival of mankind in this climactic follow-up to 2009's lauded Hellboy: The Wild Hunt. But when war ensues between the forces of good and evil, Hellboy must finally confront the Queen of Blood in a battle that will change the fate of the world! Collects Hellboy: The Storm #1-#3 and Hellboy: The Fury #1-#3. Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo conclude their epic collaboration that began in 2007's Darkness Calls—a saga that changes everything for Hellboy! • R.I.P. Hellboy 1944-2011

Monstrous Imaginaries
Monstrous Imaginaries

Author: Maaheen Ahmed

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2019-11-29

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1496825284

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Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today’s popular culture. Comics monsters, questioning the distinction between human and monster, self and other, are valuable conduits of Romantic inclinations. Engaging with Romanticism and the many monsters created by Romantic writers and artists such as Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, and Goya, Ahmed maps the heritage, functions, and effects of monsters in contemporary comics and graphic novels. She highlights the persistence of recurrent Romantic features through monstrous protagonists in English- and French-language comics and draws out their implications. Aspects covered include the dark Romantic predilection for ruins and the sordid, the solitary protagonist and his quest, nostalgia, the prominence of the spectacle as well as excessive emotions, and above all, the monster’s ambiguity and rebelliousness. Ahmed highlights each Romantic theme through close readings of well-known but often overlooked comics, including Enki Bilal's Monstre tetralogy, Jim O'Barr's The Crow, and Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, as well as the iconic comics series Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and Mike Mignola's Hellboy. In blurring the otherness of the monster, these protagonists retain the exaggeration and uncontrollability of all monsters while incorporating Romantic characteristics.

Children's and YA Books in the College Classroom
Children's and YA Books in the College Classroom

Author: Emily Dial-Driver

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-03-23

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0786495022

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Using children's and young adult literature is a great way to enhance a variety of college classes in fields as varied as biology, computer game development, political science and history. This collection of new essays by educators from a number of disciplines describes how to use such works as Where the Wild Things Are, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Swamp Thing, Percy Jackson, and Harry Potter to introduce complex concepts and spark interest in difficult subjects. The contributors describe innovative teaching strategies using dystopian fiction, graphic narratives, fairy tales and mythology. Often overlooked or dismissed by teachers, children's literature can support student learning by raising levels of academic rigor, creativity and critical thinking.

Graphic Novels
Graphic Novels

Author: Michael Pawuk

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 1113

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Covering genres from adventure and fantasy to horror, science fiction, and superheroes, this guide maps the vast terrain of graphic novels, describing and organizing titles to help librarians balance their graphic novel collections and direct patrons to read-alikes. New subgenres, new authors, new artists, and new titles appear daily in the comic book and manga world, joining thousands of existing titles—some of which are very popular and well-known to the enthusiastic readers of books in this genre. How do you determine which graphic novels to purchase, and which to recommend to teen and adult readers? This updated guide is intended to help you start, update, or maintain a graphic novel collection and advise readers about the genre. Containing mostly new information as compared to the previous edition, the book covers iconic super-hero comics and other classic and contemporary crime fighter-based comics; action and adventure comics, including prehistoric, heroic, explorer, and Far East adventure as well as Western adventure; science fiction titles that encompass space opera/fantasy, aliens, post-apocalyptic themes, and comics with storylines revolving around computers, robots, and artificial intelligence. There are also chapters dedicated to fantasy titles; horror titles, such as comics about vampires, werewolves, monsters, ghosts, and the occult; crime and mystery titles regarding detectives, police officers, junior sleuths, and true crime; comics on contemporary life, covering romance, coming-of-age stories, sports, and social and political issues; humorous titles; and various nonfiction graphic novels.