“All four of these individuals ... “I tried to make Pinocchio my own,” Mignola concludes. “That is, I wanted to do an illustrated version we haven’t seen yet. It wasn’t easy, as ...

When Guillermo del Toro first set out to make a dark, animated version of Pinocchio 15 years ago, he opted to set his tale of puppets and their string-pulling masters in 1930s fascist Italy. The ...