It wasn’t an attempt to make up a character or anything. was fun and people liked him, so I did probably four or five or six drawings of this character, and then just kind of forgot about him.
It was kind of like when I made up Hellboy: There was no thought that went into it, I just thought, “Oh, these are a funny two words to put together.”
I just happened to do one of those drawings and wrote “Radio Spaceman” on it. I had done drawings like this in the past, of, like, a skeleton wearing a spacesuit. And every once in a while, I would draw something original. I was doing a lot of drawings of other characters, like cereal characters and the Jolly Green Giant, and stuff like that. Mike Mignola: This goes back to the early days of the pandemic, where I just started banging out sketches just to keep myself from going crazy, and posting them to Facebook.
Polygon: To start off with, can you tell me a bit about Radio Spaceman : how did you come up with the character and the design? This interview has been edited for clarity and length. I spoke with Mignola earlier this week about the comic and where it came from, as well as what his plans are for his long-running Hellboy universe. The comic will follow the adventures of a steampunk-like robot, and it’ll blend Mignola’s affinity for monsters and strange happenings. The two-issue comic event will hit stores next spring, and it’s based on a handful of pandemic sketches that went viral when Mignola posted them to the internet last year.
The long-running gothic/supernatural comic has followed the adventures of the titular demon who works for the US Government to try and avert supernatural (and other) problems, and in the last couple of years, Mignola has been working to wind down the character.Īs he’s done so, he’s been working on a handful of other projects, including one new one: Radio Spaceman. For decades, Mike Mignola’s name has been attached to one comic character: Hellboy.
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