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Guillermo del Toro: 14 Influences That Shaped My Style

Comic-book creator Jack Kirby was del Toro's biggest influence for his Hellboy movies (which were themselves adapted from comics by Mike Mignola). ''Kirby's monsters were incredibly powerful and incredibly silly — creatures with massive teeth wandering the streets popping cars in their mouths like popcorn,'' he says. (And del Toro does some drawings of monsters himself.)