Mike Mignola illustrates a unique, surreal take on the boy marionette in Beehive Books’ Pinocchio: An Illuminated Edition, due for release in 2022.
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is illustrating a new edition of Carlo Collodi’s classic 1883 book The Adventures of Pinocchio, which is set to be published by Beehive Books in 2022.
Pinocchio: An Illuminated Edition is part of a special Beehive line that assigns renowned illustrators to interpret classic books in their own style. Mignola’s cover for the book, colored by frequent collaborator Dave Stewart, shows Pinocchio looking decidedly more like a surreal wooden marionette than the cheery cherub featured in Walt Disney’s 1940 animated film adaptation.
“Pinocchio has been one of my two favorite books (along with Dracula) for as long as I can remember,” Mignola told io9. “It’s shaped the way I write and the way I think. It’s got everything — amazingly strange humor as well as surprising flashes of surreal horror and violence — and tackling it has been a challenge. I’m thrilled to team with Beehive book for this. The books they’ve produced have been true works of art and cannot wait to see what they do with stuff I’m giving them.”
Like the other books in Beehive’s Illuminated Editions line, Mignola’s vision of Pinocchio will be funded on Kickstarter. The exact date for the Kickstarter has yet to be revealed, but an upcoming project page is currently online.
The Adventures of Pinocchio was originally serialized in a children’s magazine in the 1880s. Chronicling the adventures of a mischievous puppet who longs to become a real boy, the story has since become one of the most well-known works of Italian literature. Like with many fairy tales, Collodi’s original book is far darker than the Disney film adaptation many are familiar with.
Source: io9
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