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!

Today in Comics History, June 10: Happy birthday, Scott McCloud!

Happy birthday to comics writer, artist, and theorist Scott McCloud (Zot!, Destroy!!, The Sculptor, Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics)!

But sorry: I can't include any pictures of him in this post because he has never ever appeared in any comic books.









What are you waiting around here for? I told you, he's never been a character protrayed in comic books.









Oh, okay, okay.





from Understanding Comics (Tundra, 1993), by Scott McCloud
Here's he is in a Valentino/Don Simpson parody:


from normalman/Megaton Man Special one-shot (Image, August 1994), script and art by Jim Valentino, Megaton Man art by Don Simpson
A interview with Scott that's so all-encompassing it had to be split up into two issues of Vertigo books! (Remember when Paradox Press published McCloud?)



from "Subculture" in DC/Vertigo comics cover-dated August and September 2000
Happy birthday, Scott!


photo from Bone: Coda (Cartoon Books, 2016)