Alan Moore about Hellboy and Mignola

Art © Mike Mignola.

From the introduction to Hellboy: Wake the Devil. 

"Hellboy is a gem, one of considerable size and a surprising luster.  While it is obviously a gem that has been mined from that immeasurably rich seam first excavated by the late Jack Kirby, it is in the skillful cutting and the setting of the stone that we can see Mignola’s sharp contemporary sensibilities at work.” [Alan Moore]