Onward Towards Our Noble Absratction:The Growing Minimalism Of Mike Mignola And HELLBOY IN HELL

[gdeo]

What a great article.

http://thisisinfamous.com/onward-tow...-hellboy-hell/

[Kees_L]

Great article indeed, so great a thread was already started on it when it first popped up: http://community.comicbookresources....ellboy-in-Hell. Nothing bad about bringing it under attention, twice or however as many times 'though!

If for anyone the works of the legendary Alex Toth or Bernie Krigstein wouldn't immediately ring a bell, please do look into it any chance you can, 'cause they're awesome.

Krigstein for instance seems as invested into the essence of storytelling, not merely as to what to be saying but also how to be saying it, visually, quite the same as mr Mike Mignola seems to be.

Krigstein created/wrote/drew his "Master Race" story for EC Comics' Impact #1 (EC 1955), edited by Al Feldstein, which offers a chance meeting of particular persons representing memories from loaded times, in a world seemingly having moved past such, or did it now?

Evocatively simple-looking, captivating or inviting even, as just another bit of reading, although it does appear *different*. Particular.
An economy of lines, yes, both as an economy of everything really, since in a story as short anything to it would appear to be for some particular reason.

What appears kindred with Mignola's work would be the particular pacing, the particular panelling, the style both stylised as well as sort of realistic, together with the imaginativeness or striking functionality to what it presents to be, as well as the particularness to why or how it does so, visually. As such creating mood and meaning onto itself so heavily.

As showcased in this blog bit I found online (containing the first and last page of this eight-page story):
https://consequentialart.wordpress.c...ard-krigstein/

Or here's the tale presented in full: http://teddyandtheyeti.blogspot.nl/2...ster-race.html