Mike Richardson Interview

ABSTRACT

Mike Richardson is the President and founder of Dark Horse Comics, the award-winning international publishing house he launched in 1986. This interview, undertaken in 2007, features conversation about comics history; the historical resonance and cultural importance of comics; the origins of Dark Horse Comics; ways in which comics and the various industries surrounding them have changed over time; the work and impact of Mike Mignola, Frank Miller, and Masamune Shirow; Conan and Frank Frazetta; the cultural impact of comics; Dark Horse Press and Dark Horse Entertainment.

KEYWORDS:

• Mike Richardson
• Dark Horse Comics
• Comics Studies
• comics history
• cultural production

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Author’s note

An historical overview of Dark Horse Comics is available at: https://www.darkhorse.com/Company/History

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Jeffery Klaehn

Jeffery Klaehn holds a PhD in communication from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD in sociology from the University of Strathclyde. He has published interviews with the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Studies in Comics, ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, the International Journal of Comic Art, the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, Loading: the Journal of the Canadian Gaming Studies Association, First Person Scholar, Horror Studies, Media Theory, Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures and New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. More information about his research can be found at: http://uva.academia.edu/JefferyKlaehn