Mike Mignola still hangs out with the Hellboy movie crew. Hellboy II: The Golden Army ended up winning the Saturn award for Best Horror Film. Mignola and Doug Jones represented Guillermo del Toro, who is busy prepping The Hobbit. Even though the comic book world of Hellboy is quite different from the films, Mignola shared the love, and some news about the print editions.

Crave Online: What would it mean to you for a Hellboy film to win?

Crave Online: It would be cool. I would love to think it would send a message to Universal that they should figure out a way to make a Hellboy III but no, any attention that Hellboy gets is great, just keeps the whole thing alive a little bit. We certainly got clobbered out of existence at the box office but this would be nice.

Crave Online: What is going on in the Hellboy comic book world?

Crave Online: I’m still stuck mostly writing but by this fall, I’m going to be getting back to finally drawing comics myself.

Crave Online: What are you planning to draw?

Crave Online: I did something a few years back called The Amazing Screw-On Head and I’m going to be doing things that are similar to that.

Crave Online: How long will it take to reincorporate yourself into drawing Hellboy?

Crave Online: Well, I’ll ease back in because there are a couple little short stories I’m going to do first before I take on anything sizeable, but God, by early next year I’ll be back doing some Hellboy stuff.

Crave Online: They must have a system that they’re several issues down anyway, right?

Crave Online: Well, Hellboy has no kind of regular comic book schedule. It doesn’t come out monthly or bimonthly or anything like that. So there is a regular artist on Hellboy that isn’t me. Unfortunately, he’s about as slow as I am, so it comes out periodically but it’s not coming out on a real regular basis.

Crave Online: Can you preview any new ideas?

Crave Online: It’s hard to say anything more than stuff that’s in the vein of The Amazing Screw-On Head, this really odd humor stuff. That’s what I’ll be doing in the short term and then when I roll back into Hellboy stuff, Hellboy is going to be taking a radically different direction in the next couple years, so I’ll be part of that new direction.

Crave Online: Is this the direction you planned or is it new even to you?

Crave Online: No, it’s something I always had planned. We’re right in the middle of the second act now. As we go into the third act, I’ll be much more hands on.

Crave Online: What of the dark apocalyptic direction might have changed since your original concept?

Crave Online: In some ways it became much darker. That’s where I am right now.