Leonide the Vampyr creates a whole new Mignolaverse this fall

Leonide the Vampyr: Miracle At Crow's Head #1
(Image credit: Dark Horse Comics)

Mike Mignola is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:creating a universe yet again, with two connected🍨 one-shots following a new character named Leonide the Vampyr. 

In October, Dark Horse Comics will release , written by Mignola, drawn by Rachele Aragno, colored by Dave Stewart, and lettered by Clem Robins. Then in Decemberඣ, the publisher will follow up with by the same creative team. These take place in a brand new universe, outside both Hellboy and the Outerverse. 

These one-shots are the start of a series of planned collaborations between Mignola and Aragno, who began talkingꦬ after he saw her art on social media.

," she says. "I fell madly in love with those bold lines, the deep ꦚblacks, the characters, the settings, and the stories. Everything I was looking for in a comic was there, and I nev🐓er stopped buying and loving it."

Leonide the Vampyr: Miracle at the Crow's Head #1 introduces the titular character after her ship wr𝓡ecks on💜 the shores of a small, coastal village where nothing strange ever happens.

"Leonide is a vampire girl who was born from the encounter between my small black-and-white 🎉illustration and the exceptional mind of Mike Mignola," Aragno says. "There is a vast world around her and already, and in a short time, you will be able to see it. You will surely love it if your favorite atmospheres are dark, creepy, full of bats, cry♔pts, and decadent villages.

"Some𒐪 favorite moments are those in which Leonide appears for the first time and glimpses of the village. Dave Stewart di🐷d an amazing job with colors, and when I saw them after he’d worked his magic, they seemed alive to me."

Check ꦓout the designs♉ for Leonide and her world below.

Aragno has a wide range of horror influences, from prose and poetry to comics, to film. "Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, andꦫ then all the Italian horror films of the '70s by directors Avati, Fulvi, and Argento," she tells us. 

"Also the films of Vincent Price and those of masters such as Lynch, Lars with Trier, and Eggers. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:For comics, obvi🐬ou▨sly Mike Mignola, Alan Moore, Garth Ennis... but I've forgotten so many for sure!"

With Leonide the Vampyr, Aragno is finally "launching [herself] into the world of horror." She hop𓃲es "readers can love Leonide and the atmosphere around her with the desirಌe to learn more."

As of now, there are only two announced Leonide the V♋ampyr one-shots, which you can preview in the gallery below. However, with the worꦺld of Hellboy always expanding and Mignola and Aragno already making plans for future collaborations, there may be room for more.

Leonide the Vampyr: Miracle At the Crow's Head #1 will be available October 5. The next one-shot in the൲ series, Leonide the Vampyr: A Christmas for Crows #1, will be available December 7.

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