Hellboy Creator Mike Mignola Expands The Lands Unknown Universe with A New Graphic Novel, Uri Tupka And The Devils

Return To Lands Unknown

This November, trailblazing cartoonist and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola will release his third original graphic novel in two years. Following the success of 2025’s Bram Stoker Award-nominated Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown and this year’s highly anticipated Uri Tupka and the Gods, Mignola is expanding the Lands Unknown Universe he’s creating with cartoonist Ben Stenbeck with a new folktale anthology exploring the origins of legends of this strange new shared universe. Written and drawn by Mignola with colors from Dave Stewart and letters from Clem Robins, URI TUPKA AND THE DEVILS is due out in November from Dark Horse Comics…

“Uri has found the gods but he still has questions and so he’s gone to look for the answers—In a nightmare castle full of devils!” Mignola adds, “See Uri change shape, tumble through his own inner workings and take a pretty savage beating. I put the poor guy through the wringer in this one and I feel a little bad about that, but you gotta do what you gotta do, and these “Lands Unknown’’ are not all sunshine and flowers.”

Picking up after the events of Uri Tupka and the Gods, URI TUPKA AND THE DEVILS follows the weary hero on a new quest for the secret history of the universe. After his search for the ancient gods ended with some answers and even more questions, heretic and theologian Uri Tupka travels further to discover the truth about the darkness before the world began and what it means for mankind. He visits a Baron’s library full of esoteric books beyond even Uri’s imagination. Each night in the library brings new insight and clarity, but threatens to consume Uri as his unquenchable desire for understanding sends him down a dangerous path.

Here’s what people are saying about Uri Tupka and the Gods and Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown:

“Now, as it regards this new book, Uri Tupka and the Gods, it just might be up there with Mignola’s best-ever work.” — COMICS BEAT

“Mignola is justly celebrated as a visual stylist, not just of horror comics but of comics writ large. While another artist might rely on grotesque specifics to frighten the reader, Mignola’s insinuating expanses of black ink conceal all but the most necessary details of a rich and malevolent world, filled with monstrosities, yes, but also oddities, many of them delightful…. This book is a good reminder that the history of imaginative literature is also the history of illustrated literature.” — NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Deliciously macabre.” — FORBES

“Mike Mignola is back, and this time, the Hellboy creator is inviting us into a wholly new universe of eerie, whimsical, and darkly enchanting folktales… it’s a portal into a realm where the strange turns familiar and the familiar seems strange.” — BOING BOING

“This is Mignola’s Grimms’ Fairy Tales.”— FANBASE PRESS

“Unlike someone like Walt Disney (the man, and eventually the company), Mignola isn’t looking to modernize these old pieces of folklore and fairy tales – he wants to peel back the layers closer to the roots:” — POPVERSE

“This isn’t just a new story by Mike Mignola. We’re being presented to an entire new World, a charming, complex, magical world, where from every corner comes a handful of inspiring new characters. If you weren’t there the moment Mignola revolutionized comics creating Hellboy, this is your chance to get onboard, because he’s about to start a brand new revolution.” —  Fábio Moon (Daytripper)

About Mike Mignola

Mike Mignola’s fascination with ghosts and monsters began at an early age; reading Dracula at age twelve introduced him to Victorian literature and folklore, from which he has never recovered. Starting in 1982 as a bad inker for Marvel Comics, he swiftly evolved into a not-so-bad artist. By the late 1980s, he had begun to develop his own unique graphic style, with mainstream projects like Cosmic Odyssey and Batman:Gotham by Gaslight. In 1994, he published the first Hellboy series through Dark Horse.There are thirteen Hellboy graphic novels (with more on the way), several spin-off titles (B.P.R.D., Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder), prose books,animated films, and two live-action films starring Ron Perlman. Along the way he worked on Francis Ford Coppola’s film Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), was a production designer for Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and was the visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). Mike’s books have earned numerous awards and are published in a great many countries. Mike lives in New York City with his wife.

About Dark Horse Comics 

Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson as an offshoot of his comics retail chain, Things From Another World.  With a goal of creating a welcoming environment for comics professionals, Dark Horse continues to publish the work of many of the greatest creators in the industry’s history. Dark Horse, from its beginning,  also has a track record of establishing new creative talent. Early on, the company set new standard for quality with licensed properties, including comics, graphic novels, collectibles, and art books based on popular film and gaming properties. Dark Horse also began building a manga publishing line in the 1980s, going on to release such classics as Lone Wolf & Cub, Akira, Ghost In the Shell, Trigun, and Berserk. Richardson established Dark Horse Entertainment as a film division in 1989, finding initial success with his own creations, The Mask and TimeCop. Recent hits from Dark Horse Entertainment include The Umbrella Academy on Netflix and Resident Alien on SyFy. In 2022, Dark Horse Media, LLC was established as Dark Horse  became part of Embracer Group AB.

Uri Tupka and the Devils is a 104-page hardcover that will be released in bookstores and comic shops on November 16, 2026. Follow Dark Horse Comics on social media for more news, announcements, and updates.