Mignola wakes the devil: Speaking of Hellboy, the San Antonio Current has a decent little Q&A with Mike Mignola (scroll past the film review):

"Quite frankly, I never thought the movie would be made. I thought that by signing an option deal I was just scamming whomever was signing the check - because I didn't see any way in hell this thing was ever going to get made. I knew that it was not a well-known comic book property, and I had seen so many people have their work optioned, and I hadn't seen any of them have a movie made. So I thought it was very realistic that I was not taking the whole thing too seriously. You know, worse comes to worst, it was a completely financial arrangement that just allowed me more freedom to keep drawing comics. I was prepared for a situation where I wouldn't be involved at all. But Guillermo insisted on my involvement."