Today in Comics History, June 29: Happy birthday, Mike Richardson!

Today's the birthday of Mike Richardson, comics writer and publisher (he founded a little company you may have heard of called Dark Horse Comics), a winner of several Eisner and Harvey Awards, and even an Emmy nominee and winner for his work in Hollywood (including a documentary about noted hockey puck identifyer Don Rickles)!


from Usagi Yojimbo #100 (Dark Horse, January 2007); script by Mike Richardson; pencils, inks, and letters by Rick Geary
A slightly less flattering portrayal (Mike is at the right, with caricatures of Peter David at left and Neal Adams in the center):


from normalman/Megaton Man Special #1 (one-shot) (Image, August 1994), script, pencils, inks, and letters by Don Simpson; colors by Gloria Vasquez; color separations by Rob Schwaeger
Happy birthday, Mike!