Mike Richardson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mike Richardson
Occupation	Comic Book Author
Date Of Birth	Jun 29, 1950(1950-06-29)
Age	74
Birthplace	Oregon
Country	United States
Birth City	Oregon
Horoscope	Cancer

Mike Richardson Biography

Mike Richardson is one of the most popular and richest Comic Book Author who was born on June 29, 1950 in Oregon, Oregon, United States. An American writer, producer, and screenwriter, he is best known for founding Dark Horse Comics and Dark Horse Entertainment. His screenwriting credits include The Mask and Timecop.

He produced The Mask starring Jim Carrey.

Mike Richardson (born June 29, 1950) is an American publisher, writer, and Emmy-winning producer. In 1986, he founded Dark Horse Comics, an award-winning international publishing house located in Milwaukie, Oregon. Richardson is also the founder and President of the Things From Another World retail chain and president of Dark Horse Entertainment, which has developed and produced numerous projects for film and television based on Dark Horse properties or licensed properties.

While in college, Richardson built a list of clients as a freelance artist and had planned on starting an art agency under the name Dark Horse Graphics. In 1980, Richardson quit his job producing art and designing products for a furniture company located in Portland and moved to Bend, Oregon with his wife, Karie, and their newborn daughter, Michelle. He used a credit card with a $2,500.00 limit to open a small, pop culture retail store. The store’s name, Pegasus Fantasy Books, was chosen off a list of twenty suggestions he submitted to the State of Oregon when applying for a DBA registration. The store opened for business on January 1, 1980. After a name change to Things From Another World in 1993, the original store grew into a chain with as many as eleven locations in three states, including Universal Studio’s CityWalk in Los Angeles and Sony’s Metreon in San Francisco. The success of the on-line TFAW retail site led to a decision to limit expansion plans and, reduce the number of brick-and-mortar locations, in favor of increased emphasis toward online sales.

He settled in Lake Oswego, Oregon with his wife and children.

Mike Richardson Net Worth

Mike Richardson is one of the richest Comic Book Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mike Richardson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Early in his career, he worked as a producer on a film called Barb Wire. The movie was nominated for a Razzie Award for the Worst Picture of 1996.

He won an Emmy in 2007 for Hellboy: Sword of Storms.

Mike Richardson was born June 29, 1950, in Portland, Oregon. His family moved to Milwaukie, a suburb of Portland, in 1955. He is a graduate of Portland State University, where he majored in art and played for the university basketball team.

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Over the years, Dark Horse grew behind creator-owned projects such as Frank Miller and Geof Darrow’s Hard Boiled, Miller’s Sin City and 300 Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, and Eric Powell’s The Goon. Richardson’s interest in Japanese pop culture led to Dark Horse’s early entry into the American manga scene. The company achieved success with major Japanese titles, including Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima’s Lone Wolf and Cub, Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, and Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell. Following these successes, Dark Horse imported Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal and Kosuke Fujishima’s Oh My Goddess! to the United States, where the series’ have become two of the longest running Japanese manga titles in the country.

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Mike Ranked on the list of most popular Comic Book Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mike Richardson celebrates birthday on June 29 of every year.