Dark Horse Comics founder and ceo Mike Richardson sold a substantial stake in the company — for what one report suggests was about $20 million — to Hong-Kong based Vanguard Visionary Assets, associated with former Walt Disney Company in Greater China chairman Stanley Cheung. Cheung joins the five-person Dark Horse Entertainment board. Richardson declined to say he retained a majority share, saying he retained a “large chunk” of the company. He said Vanguard had invested “into a number of areas, including a stock purchase… a development fund and a film fund,” with “investment in the publishing and product divisions, and expansion […]
