Billy began his showbiz career as a young Butlins redcoat. Since then he has developed his show in clubs, theatres and hotels, both at home and abroad his solo act is enhanced by the visually capturing props which include the aforementioned coffin and two pall bearers. B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know Volume 3: Ragna Rok (July 2019, ISBN 978-1-50670-814-0) – Collects B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know #158–162. B.P.R.D.: 1947 (5 issues, July–November 2009) by Mike Mignola, Joshua Dysart, Fábio Moon, and Gabriel Bá. Custom coffins are occasionally created and some companies also make set ranges with non-traditional designs. These include printing or painting of peaceful tropical scenes, sea-shells, sunsets, cherubim, and patriotic flags. Some manufacturers have designed them to look like gym carry bags, guitar cases, cigar humidors, and even yellow dumpster bins. Other coffins are left deliberately blank so that friends and family can inscribe final wishes and thoughts upon them to the deceased. In Taiwan, coffins made of crushed oyster shells [20] were used in the 18th and 19th centuries. [ citation needed] The design coffins of the Ga have long been celebrated in the Western art world as the invention of a single, autonomous artist, the coffin maker Kane Kwei (1924–1992) of Teshie. But as Regula Tschumi shows with her recent research this assumption was false. Design coffins have existed already before Kane Kwei and other Ga carpenters like Ataa Oko (1919–2012) from La have built their first figurative coffins around 1950. [24] [25] Kane Kwei and Ataa Oko had only continued a tradition that already existed in Accra where the kings were using figurative palanquins in the forms of their family symbol. And as those chiefs who were using figurative palanquins had to be buried in a coffin looking like their palanquin, their families used figurative coffins which were formerly nothing else than the copies of the design palanquins. Today figurative coffins are of course no more reserved for the traditional Ga and their kings, many families who use figurative coffins are indeed Christians. For them design coffins have no longer a spiritual function, their appeal is more aesthetic, aimed at surprising mourners with strikingly innovative forms like automobiles or aeroplanes, fish or pigs, onions or tomatoes. [26] So the figurative coffins, rather than constituting a new art form as it was long believed, were developed from the figurative palanquins which had existed already a long time. [24] Cremation [ edit ]

Abe Sapien Volume 9: Lost Lives and Other Stories (June 2017, ISBN 978-1-50670-220-9) – Collects Abe Sapien 8, #15, #23, #27, and #30 and Abe Sapien: Subconscious from Dark Horse Presents (volume 3) #11. B.P.R.D.: 1948 (5 issues, October 2012 – February 2013) by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, and Max Fiumara. On Parliament Square, a tri-Service Guard of Honour will be formed of members of Nijmegen Company Grenadier Guards, the Royal Navy, and The King’s Colour Squadron of the Royal Air Force, each with their Colours draped, and accompanied by a Band of the Royal Marines.B.P.R.D. Volume 3: Plague of Frogs (February 2005, ISBN 978-1-59307-288-9) – Collects Plague of Frogs #1–5, sketchbook. Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957 — Family Ties (one-shot, September 2021) by Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Laurence Campbell and Dave Stewart. Hellboy Volume 2: Wake the Devil (May 1997, ISBN 1-56971-226-3) – Written by Mike Mignola. Colors by James Sinclair. Separations by Dave Stewart. Letters by Pat Brosseau. Collects Wake the Devil #1–5. Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Seven Wives Club (one-shot, November 2020) by Mike Mignola, Adam Hughes.

Hellboy: Library Edition Volume II (October 2008, ISBN 978-1-59307-989-5) – Collects The Chained Coffin and Others and The Right Hand of Doom. B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know: Ragna Rok (5 issues, December 2018 – April 2019) by Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Laurence Campbell, Christopher Mitten.Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. 1955: Burning Season (one-shot, February 2018) by Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Paolo Rivera, Joe Rivera, and Dave Stewart. Abe Sapien: The Drowning and Other Stories (July 2018, ISBN 978-1-50670-488-3) – Collects The Drowning, The Devil Does Not Jest and Other Stories, and Lost Lives and Other Stories. Lobster Johnson Volume 3: Satan Smells A Rat (February 2014, ISBN 978-1-61655-203-9) – Collects The Prayer of Neferu", "Caput Mortuum", "Satan Smells A Rat", "A Scent of Lotus #1–2, Tony Masso's Finest Hour. Young Hellboy: The Hidden Land (4 issues, February – May 2021) by Mike Mignola, Tom Sniegoski, Craig Rousseau, Dave Stewart Lobster Johnson: The Pirate's Ghost (3 issues, March – May 2017) by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, and Tonci Zonjic.