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Sketchbooks[]

Convention Sketchbooks[]

Hand Numbered

Mignola hand numbers each sketchbook. This example is from Hellboy 25 Years.

More Drawings Sketchbook Original Art

Original art for the cover of the More Drawings sketchbook featuring a bust of Hellboy.

Hellboy 25 Years Sketchbook Cover Original Art

Original art for the cover of the Hellboy 25 Years sketchbook featuring Hellboy.

Mike Mignola has self-published a number of sketchbooks that feature Hellboy universe characters in their contents and frequently feature Hellboy himself on the cover. In years he attends conventions, Mignola will frequently self publish a sketchbook in a limited quantity that he then makes available for purchase at his convention booths. New sketchbooks tend to debut at major conventions and are also sold at subsequent conventions until supplies run out.

Title Publication Year Debut Convention Quantity Cover
Hellboy Convention Sketchbook 2001 San Diego Comic-Con 1000
Hellboy Convention Sketchbook
Hellboy 10th Anniversary 1994-2004: A Book of Drawings 2004 San Diego Comic-Con 2000
Hellboy 10th Anniversary Sketchbook
Signed
Some Drawings 2006 San Diego Comic-Con 750
Some Dawings
From the Vault: Covers, Pin-Ups & Other Odd Bits 2007 San Diego Comic-Con 1500
From The Vault
More Drawings 2008 San Diego Comic-Con 2000
More Drawings
From the Vault 2 2009 San Diego Comic-Con 1500
From the Vault 2
From the Vault 3 2010 San Diego Comic-Con 1500
From The Vault 3
From the Vault 4 2011 1200
From The Vault 4
From the Vault 5 2012 1000
From The Vault 5
A Year of Monsters 2013 Emerald City Comic Con 1000
A Year of Monsters
From the Vault Six 2015 Emerald City Comic Con 1000
From The Vault 6
Hellboy 25 Years 2019 NYC Comic Art Expo 1000
Hellboy 25 Years

The Quarantine Sketchbook[]

Quarantine Sketchbook

Cover of The Quarantine Sketchbook featuring Hellboy wearing a medical mask.

Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, Mike Mignola created a large number of sketches that he would share on social media and then sell via online auctions to raise funds for World Health Kitchen charity. Many of the sketches featured either Hellboy himself or other characters from his universe. Dark Horse Comics later collected many of the sketches into The Quarantine Sketchbook, a large, hardcover volume. Like to the sketches it collects, all the profits from the sales of The Quarantine Sketchbook were donated to The World Kitchen.

Annotated Art Books[]

These books contain sketches and mostly "unfinished" comic pages and covers accompanied by commentary on the process of illustrating the stories.

Title Date Published Material Collected Cover
The Art of Hellboy March 26, 2003 (Hardcover)
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March 31, 2004 (Paperback)

  • Introduction and annotations throughout the book by Scott Allie
  • Finished and unfinished interior pages and covers
  • Sketches of the characters
  • Previously unpublished drawings
  • Hi, My Name's Hellboy
  • The Vârcolac (Original Version)
The Art of Hellboy (Hardcover)
MIKE MIGNOLA
ArtOfHellboyPaperback
MIKE MIGNOLA
Hellboy Artist's Edition: Hellboy in Hell and Other Stories
(Hardcover)

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Hellboy Artisan Edition: Hellboy in Hell and Other Stories
(Paperback)

July 9, 2014 (Hardcover)
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May 10, 2022 (Paperback)

Hellboy Artisan Edition
MIKE MIGNOLA
Hellboy Artist's Edition
MIKE MIGNOLA
Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea Studio Edition March, 2018
Hellboy-Silent-Sea-Studio
GARY GIANNI

Key Art / Cover Collections[]

These books feature select key art and covers from the Hellboy Universe books (mostly from Hellboy comics).

Title Date Published Cover
Hellboy: The First 20 Years March 19, 2014
Hellboy - The First 20 Years
MIKE MIGNOLA
The Hellboy 100 Project September 23, 2015
Hellboy 100 Project
VARIOUS
Hellboy: 25 Years of Covers July 3, 2019
Hellboy - 20 Years of Covers
MIKE MIGNOLA
Hell, Ink, and Water: The Art of Mike Mignola October 15, 2024
Hell Ink and Water Cover
MIKE MIGNOLA

Artists Collections[]

These collections feature all the works of one artist set in the Hellboy Universe and are published in an oversized hardcover format (similar to the Library Editions).

Title Date Published Material Collected Cover
Hellboy Artists Collection: Richard Corben May 7, 2024
HellboyArtistsCollection RichardCorben
RICHARD CORBEN
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