Mike Mignola Interview

A friend let me know he had found an interview Mike Mignola did in which he mentions the artwork page I bought from Mike at the comic-con in San Diego in 1999.
http://ryan.rubberslug.com/gallery/inv_info.asp?ItemID=106231

The interview was conducted by Shawn Ervin-Gore for Dark Horse comics.

SE-G: Reguarding the new mini-series are there new characters in there that Hellboy fans haven't seen before?

MM: In the actual mini-series, we've got Egor Bromhead , who is sort of an Aleister Crowley-type wizard. He's good, and...

SE-G: No, he's not good, he's bad.

MM: No, he's bad , he's bad ,and he gets what he deserves. But he's a good character.

SE-G: Yeah.

MM: Other than that I don't think there's any new characters... Well, actually there is. We do trot out one of the big, high muckity mucks from Hell for the very first time.

SE-G: The guy at the end of the book?

MM: Yeah.

SE-G: I had to go ask Scott(Scott Allie, Mignola's editor at Dark Horse)who he was because I did not remember him from any other story.

MM: Yeah, on one hand I've got s sketch book full of all the big players, all the big Hell guys. But the way Hellboy has gone. I've been very nervous to actually bring those guys out. At verious times I've talked about doing a story that takes place in Hell.

SE-G: And Hellboy has never been to Hell has he?

MM: Not other than I guess when he was born. But, I've got this whole thing worked out where he came from and all this, you know, and actually was going todo it for the Christmas book this year, but I didn't. I want to go through Hellboy's origin in a flashback story. It would be so much fun to do, but it would be so radically different than what I've been doing, I think it's better that I just drop little bits and pieces of it here and there.

SE-G: So it kind of fits in eventually somewhere along the way?

MM: Yeah, so bringing out that guy in the end of the book was really the first big cosmic moment in the Hellboy Saga or whatever.

SE-G: Yeah, what's his name?

MM: Astaroth