Mike Mignola’s Next Fantasy Adventure Journeys Into a Beloved Classic

Mike Mignola is an artist who’s turned his fingers to all kinds of extraordinary topics past the realm of his iconic creation Hellboy—and his newest mission is seeing him take his model right into a beloved youngsters’s basic, within the type of a brand new version of Pinocchio.

io9’s obtained your first take a look at Mignola and colorist Dave Stewart’s artwork for a brand new, lavish version of Carlo Collodi’s basic 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, being revealed by Beehive books subsequent 12 months. Mignola and Stewart, longtime collaborators throughout Hellboy’s lengthy historical past, will present each the quilt for the brand new version, which is being crowdfunded by Kickstarter, in addition to inside illustrations all through the unique novel. Check out the quilt in full beneath, making its debut right here on io9!

“Pinocchio has been one of my two favorite books (along with Dracula) for as long as I can remember,” Mignola mentioned in a press launch supplied to io9. “It’s shaped the way I write and the way I think. It’s got everything—amazingly strange humor as well as surprising flashes of surreal horror and violence—and tackling it has been a challenge. I’m thrilled to team with Beehive book for this. The books they’ve produced have been true works of art and cannot wait to see what they do with stuff I’m giving them.”

If you’re all for backing the Illuminated Edition of Pinocchio, you possibly can head on over to Kickstarter to enroll to be notified when the mission launches in 2022. And if you wish to see extra of Mignola’s artwork from the version, the artist will debut two new items from the Illuminated Edition throughout his digital artist’s alley look at LightBox Expo Online, working from right this moment till September 12—extra particulars for which could be discovered here.

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