Time for a Mike Mignola post (it was only a matter of time). He’s best known as the creative genius behind Hellboy and the B.P.R.D., but like most writers, those aren’t the only stories he has to tell. As part of the promotion behind the release of his new hardcover compendium of comic ridiculousness, The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects, Mignola has released the entirety of the Eisner Award-winning short story The Magician and the Snake that was illustrated by him, and written by his seven-year-old daughter, Katie Mignola. And, well, it’s just as unbearably sweet as you’d expect. Kids huh, they’re so damn cute.
Oh, as a special bonus, I’ll throw in the animated pilot for The Amazing Screw-On Head that, amazingly, wasn’t picked up for a full series in 2006. It has the voices of Paul Giamatti and Patton Oswalt, features Abe Lincoln in an alternate history with Gentlemen-zombies and lycanthropy, and looks exactly like Mignola’s artwork. Amazing stuff.
(Apologies for the page order being muddled in the pictures below. Just start from the bottom right and read backwards. That should sort you out.)
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