Hellboy has gone global and appeared in many other international feature films, series, novels and comic books.

Here is a list of some of the more recent Hellboy cameo-appearances made in popular culture:

• Sin City: Hell and Back: In the middle of a hallucination sequence.
• Belly of the Beast by Sam & Max
• The Goon (part of the Eisner series), by Eric Powell
• The Battle for Independents
• San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2: First appearance
• Madmen #5
• Babe 2: Featured character of Abe Sapien
• Dogma (1999): on a t-shirt
• Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
• Anno Dracula by Kim Newman: Hellboy is deemed a ‘borrowed character’ in the series.
• Andy Warhol’s Dracula (2004): together with characters such as Blade,  The Punisher, Paul Kersey, Travis Bickle, Shaft and Scooby-Doo, he takes it upon himself to hunt Jonny Pop (illustrated as a vampire drug dealer)

Hellboy Awards

• Best Limited Series: at 2002 Eisner Awards for Hellboy: Conqueror Worm (miniseries)
• Best Comics-Related Book: at 2004 Eisner Awards for The Art of Hellboy
• Best Artist: for Mignola at 2000 Harvey Awards for Hellboy: Box Full of Evil
• Favourite Colour Comincbook – American: at 2007 Eagle Awards for Hellboy: Darkness Calls
• Best Indy Hero: at Projected Fanboy Awards 2008
• Best Indy Character: Projected Fanboy Awards 2008

Hellboy Nominations

• Favourite Comics Character: 2004 and 2005 Eagle Awards for Hellboy Character
• Favourite Comics Story published during 2007: Eagle Awards for Hellboy: Darkness Calls
• Favourite Comics Hero: Eagle Awards

Hellboy Recognition

Alan Moore, the highly acclaimed comic-writer included Hellboy: Wake the Devil (vol.2) on his “Recommended By..” page.  He stated that it was:

..a gem, one of considerable size and a surprising luster. While it is obviously a gem that has been mined from that immeasurably rich seam first excavated by the late Jack Kirby, it is in the skillful cutting and the setting of the stone that we can see Mignola’s sharp contemporary sensibilities at work…