Hellboy Christmas Special is an Eisner award winning Dark Horse Comics one-shot comic book horror anthology by Scott Allie and featuring the work of Mike Mignola , Gary Gianni and Steve Purcell .
Creation
Mignola has stated that when he and Gary Gianni came up with the idea for this Christmas and it was a story based on an old folktale that he had long mooted and added to a Christmas angel to it.
Publication history
Hellboy Christmas Special (December 3, 1997 ) featured by Gary Gianni. [1] [2]
| title | Creators | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Christmas Underground | by Mike Mignola | ||||
| In the story Hellboy travels to England on Christmas Eve 1989 where he walks through a graveyard in search of the daughter of a dying woman who is married to a prince of the underworld. | |||||
| Ernie’s Holiday Ditty | by Steve Purcell | ||||
| This one page is about the lyrics to a horrific and satirical take on traditional Christmas carols from the fictional Little Ernie and the Citizens of Toybox Community Glee Club who appear in Toybox also in this special. | |||||
| A Strange Story | by Gary Gianni | ||||
| Corpus Monstrum creator Gianni is about how his case of writer’s block, which is threatened by Charles Dickens died. | |||||
| Christmas | by Geof Darrow | ||||
| A double page Christmas themed pinup. | |||||
| Toybox | by Steve Purcell | ||||
| In the story Ernie and Suda take shelter on Christmas Eve in the home of an old lady who they discover by spider larvae and while Suda sleeps Ernie does not stop at the chimney with a surprise. | |||||
| A Gift for the Wicked | by Gary Gianni | ||||
| Hodgson, St. George and Benedict of Corpus Monstrum Spend the night in a forbidden chamber at the ancestral home of Baron Grodak in an attempt to lift the curse that left the last of his line. | |||||
| Further Reading | by Mike Mignola | ||||
| Hellboy creator Mignola lists some yuletide ghost stories including his all-time favorite story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens along with his two best movie adaptations of the story Alastair Sim in 1951 and George C. Scott in 1984 . | |||||
Awards
The special won two 1998 Eisner Awards ;
- Best Writer / Artist: Drama for Mike Mignola.
- Best Anthology for Scott Allie.
References
- Jump up^ “Hellboy Christmas Special” . Dark Horse Comics . Retrieved February 18, 2009 .
- Jump up^ “Hellboy Christmas Special” . Hellboy.com. Archived from the original on 2009-07-07 . Retrieved February 18, 2009 .