MIKE RICHARDSON is the President and founder of Dark Horse Comics, the award-winning international publishing house he founded in 1986. He is also the President of Dark Horse Entertainment, for which he has produced numerous projects for film and television. In addition to producing films such as R.I.P.D., Hellboy, and The Mystery Men, he has also produced films based on several of his own creations, including The Mask and Timecop. Richardson owns a successful pop culture retail chain, Things From Another World, stretching from Universal's City Walk in Los Angeles to his hometown in Milwaukie, Oregon. Richardson has written numerous graphic novels and comics series, as well as Comics Between the Panels and Blast Off, two critically acclaimed books about pop culture. He lives with his wife Karie in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The author lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon.