The series publisher Dark Horse Media is sold to Sweden’s Embracer Group – Deadline
Embracer Group, a Swedish video game holding company, revealed plans to buy Dark Horse Media, the comic book and entertainment group founded and led by Mike Richardson.
Dark Horse, with operations in LA and Milwaukie, Oregon, owns or controls more than 300 intangible assets and has 181 employees across business units, Dark Horse Comics, which owns Mask, Time Cop, Father’s Day, and Ghost and licenses other titles including Star Wars, Avatar the Last Airbender, Stranger Things and Witcher, Japanese manga Berserk, Lone Wolf & Cub, and content-owned material Big Guy and Rusty and Grendel. Dark Horse is also a leader in game art collections with books as the bestseller The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia.
Deadline was reported earlier today Black sun stand, a new graphic novel written by Oscar winners Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe, which Dark Horse will publish next December.
Production company Dark Horse Entertainment’s 40+ movies and series include Masks and Timecop, den Hellboy movies, Umbrella Academy and Resident Alien.
It also has a retail business called Things From Another World that offers comics, graphic novels and related collectibles at three stores with a growing e-commerce presence
“I can not express the excitement I feel when Dark Horse enters this new chapter in our history. The synergies that exist with Embracer’s network of companies promise exciting new opportunities not only for Dark Horse, but also for the creators and companies we work with.” says Richardson, who will remain CEO. “The future of our company has never looked brighter”
Embracer said the deal will strengthen its media capacity by adding expertise in content development, serial publishing and film and television production.
The transaction is expected to be completed at the beginning of next year. Financial details were not disclosed.