{"id":9828,"date":"2014-03-31T05:20:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T09:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9828"},"modified":"2014-03-28T19:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T23:00:44","slug":"mike-mignola-hellboy-20-years-and-going-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9828","title":{"rendered":"Mike Mignola &#038; Hellboy: 20 Years and Going Strong!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z033114hellboy_1stdrawing.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"649\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Recognize the character above?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That&#8217;s the first drawing <strong>Mike Mignola<\/strong> ever did of his wildly popular<strong> Hellboy<\/strong> character. \u00a0It&#8217;s pretty nuts to see how that initial drawing morphed into the beloved <strong>Hellboy<\/strong> character that went on to serve as the cornerstone of a comic universe, and has been adapted into live-action and animated movies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is even crazier is to realize that <strong>Hellboy<\/strong> (as we came to know him) has been around for 20 years! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=51655\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CBR.com recently talked with Mike Mignolia<\/strong><\/a> about his and <strong>Hellboy&#8217;s<\/strong> journey from initial sketch to comic icon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognize the character above? That&#8217;s the first drawing Mike Mignola ever did of his wildly popular Hellboy character. \u00a0It&#8217;s pretty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56,53,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-horror","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9830,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828\/revisions\/9830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}