TV Guidance Counselor Episode 460: Mike Mignola
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2021
- In this BONUS! episode Ken welcomes artist, writer and creator of Hellboy, the one and only Mike Mignola to the show.
Ken and Mike discuss doing homework for interviews, television moments that burn into your brain, the early 1970s, talking about TV in the schoolyard, TV movies, Sole Survivor, when VCRs were sci-fi, remembering everything, never seeing things again, setting your alarm to watch a movie in the middle of the night, Frankenstein vs the Wolfman, Bride of Frankenstein, being starved for monsters, The Munsters, The Adams Family, not getting UHF stations, 1970s Monster Movie Books, being a big reader, Dracula, Creature Features, The Evil of Frankenstein, adapting Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula for comics, hoarding images, having a New England/England aesthetic and being a California guy, Lovecraft, the sadness of horror, Ghosts in a Toys R Us, The Fog, Dead and Buried, Chariots of the Gods, emotional impact of Batman '66, Channel 2, Dark Shadows, heads in boxes, Werewolves, curses, The Vulture (1966), being a physical media die hard, asking Stephen King and Guillermo Del Toro to solve the mystery of The Attack of the Puppet People, being a KISS and The Partridge Family Fan, Jenny Agutter, Jack Kirby, being a Marvel fan, The Thing, the lack of imagination of Hollywood, why money shouldn't drive creative endeavors, character moments, how Terminator 2 meant movies could do anything, the lack of superhero stuff in the 1970s, the 1960s Marvel Superheroes cartoon, Captain Satellite, feeling soothed by Boris Karloff's voice, film noir, Vera, loving British Murder Mystery shows, Jim Thompson, hating cross-over large universe wide events, the constant reboot of comics, forcing people to buy comics they don't want, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, Gargoyles, Trilogy of Terror, running into Harlan Ellison, and the Dark Shadows/Partridge Family shared universe. - Zábava
I interviewed Rick Veitch as well and he was also telling me the story of the 1941 adaptation that you briefly mentioned here. He said he and Bissette holed up in a dilapidated cabin and had the pages on the floor, passing them back and forth trying to get the pages done for a ridiculously short deadline. At some point, a wet dog ran into the cabin, stood right on the original art pages, and shook all the rainwater off itself. They didn't have time to do the pages over so they had to submit the pages for print anyway.
haha, it works! I'd love to talk to Rick again for the show sometime. When I had him on my cable access show in the early 90s talking about the "Swamp Thing as the Crucifixion Cross" was fascinating
Hey it’s my Twitter nemesis. I didn’t know about this channel bud. Mignola is the GOAT! Great video bud.
Thank you! He's such a good dude and I'm so glad I got to to him
this was great.
Just discovered your channel.
Fantastic episode with Mike Mignola. This is Right up my alley since I grew up on the 70's
Thank you so much!
Oh hey! I just got recommended this after listening to your Junkfood Cinema episode which I just utterly adored (Trilogy of Terror for ever). The fact that you've got Mignola on who's one of my favourite artist/writers? God, this is gonna be a good hour and a half
Thank you so much! It's a really fun chat with Mike
In the Nineties, some big name comic book artists I worked with said: "Sure, he's a good artist, but his stuff isn't commercial"
Well, commercial, not commercial, he's the one with two movies about his character, and those big names got nuthin'.
The best artists bend what is considered commercial into THEIR world