Mignola art- Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment

[Swift]

I recently picked up Marvel's 1990 graphic novel, Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment. The art is by Mignola, and to me its almost like a middle point in his style progression. Right between Rocket Raccoon and Hellboy: The Island. I noticed that this book doesn't appear on any lists of Mignola's work I could find, so i figured i would alert you all to its presence. It's a very entertaining read.

http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Strange-Doom-Triumph-Torment/dp/0871356600

[diablo7]

i've been having the book for years now..i got it for mignola and to see him draw dr. doom...really cool artwork. i think it was between cosmic odyssey and gotham by gaslight..

[Myron L]

Yeah, me being an old guy (lol)...I bought it when it first came out !
Great book....

[dogboy443]

I originally picked up the book and was WOW'd by Mikes work. I ran into Mark Badger at a con and bought a couple of his painted pages from the book and they are truly amazing. Try and get your hands on the hardcover. It's around and afordable.

Mark

[Neil Hill]

The art is by Mignola, and to me its almost like a middle point in his style progression. Right between Rocket Raccoon and Hellboy: The Island.

Whoa, whoa, whoa there buckaroo. :) You can't give that broad of a range in Mike's career and call it "the middle period". That's like saying that from the first album David Bowie released until he turned 50 was his middle period. Now if you were to say, between Dr Strange/Dr Doom and the Legends of the Dark Knight issue Mike did (the one that preceeded his first Hellboy issue) was his middle period, I could agree with that. But your range is much too broad to be considered anything other than the length and breadth of Mike's career as a whole. :o

[Maija]

I noticed that this book doesn't appear on any lists of Mignola's work I could find[/URL]
Then you haven't met Jan Bentzen, Keeper of the [URL="http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showpost.php?p=2577614&postcount=1"]Mike Mignola Non-Hellboy Checklist (http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Strange-Doom-Triumph-Torment/dp/0871356600)!

[Swift]

Never try to out-savvy the forum vets, my mother always said

Whoa, whoa, whoa there buckaroo. :)

haha i havent been called a buckaroo in years.

But your range is much too broad to be considered anything other than the length and breadth of Mike's career as a whole. :o

Consider Mignola's stylistic development as a scale from one to ten. Or a bell curve. Or something like that. Mignola's early work is just a one, all the way on the left, and Mignola's most resent work is a ten, all the way on the right. In 1985 Mignola's work was generally main stream, but you can tell its him for sure, and you can already see his tendency to cast a large amount of shadow on his characters. Then lets say Triumph and Torment is a five, or at the peak of the curve. Great art, loooots of shadows, especially Mephisto and his demons. It's no longer conventional, Mignola has set himself apart. Then you get to the other end of the scale/graph and you get Hellboy: the island, which has art stylized to the point that it takes a forum thread for many people to understand how the worm died.

I realized there is a five year spread between one and five and a fifteen year spread between five and ten, but Im not talking about chronology, Im just expressing my view of his stylistic progression. Sorry if you feel it is over generalized.

If it helps consider some one elses progression to whome you arent so attached. Like give Frank Millers first work on daredevil on the 70s a 1. Generally conventional. Then you can give The Dark Knight Returns a 5. Stylized. Then give DK2 a 10. Stylized almost to the point of digression.

I think that all might come across kind of harsh. I don't mean them words as fightin' words.

Then you haven't met Jan Bentzen, Keeper of the Mike Mignola Non-Hellboy Checklist (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showpost.php?p=2577614&postcount=1)!

Ah, thats helpful

[Asa]

Thanks for the link.I have been looking for this all over, ordered mine, and they shipped it today. CAN'T WAIT.

[Rachel Edidin]

That's one of my favorite of the Marvel Graphic Novels (my partner got it when it came out too, PsychoFyre, but I didn't end up reading it 'til this past summer, when I was unpacking our books). Thanks for the memory jog--brought a smile to my face.

[Neil Hill]

Consider Mignola's stylistic development as a scale from one to ten.

I'll give you all kinds of lattitude simply for typing that well thought out explanation, Swift. Your "middle years" comment just seemed too broad at first, but the way you explained it, I'm now understanding better.