What can we expect in the future, and it's a special edition Metroid book, isn't it?
NL: Finally, so far Dark Horse has published Zelda, Fire Emblem, Splatoon, and an upcoming Mario hardcover book. PT: I don’t know the exact number of how many copies Hyrule Historia has sold to date, but I believe it’s around 900,000 copies at this point. NL: How many copies of Hyrule Historia have been sold? Hyrule Historia hit my desk shortly after that. After bringing in Dark Horse's licensing guru Nick McWhorter, we worked out the details and were off and running.
They obviously weren’t going to do two books, but asked if we were interested in doing a localisation of that book.
Initially, she told me that she wasn’t sure that they’d have the resources available to support such an endeavor, which is totally reasonable, these are incredibly time intensive to make.Ī month or so later, she contacted me again saying that she had talked to NCL and that they were in talks with another company, which I later learned was Shogakukan, who was developing a book very similar to that in Japan. I knew that the 25th anniversary of the Legend of Zelda was coming up, so I pitched her on a book that would be a retrospective look at the whole series. She asked me what a partnership with Nintendo might look like. We exchanged cards and he put me in contact with Cammy Budd who was Nintendo’s senior third-party marketing manager. So in 2011, I tracked down Nintendo’s booth at San Diego Comic Con and met Seth McMahill. They feature a lot of beautiful artwork, but they’re also 'making of' books. Calling them art books might be a bit of a misnomer because they all include behind the scenes information and development materials. It was really obvious that we were on to something really fun and interesting. We then did The Art of Alice: Madness Returns and had a book called The Art of the Mass Effect Universe book in the works. It was this big, beautiful 9 x 12 coffee table book of really high quality that would become the template for our whole art book line. Samantha Robertson, a former Dark Horse editor who now works in Nintendo’s Treehouse division, had created an art book for the Art of Avatar: The Last Airbender. We had just recently had some success with video game related comics with Mass Effect, and, more importantly, art books. I’ve been a huge Nintendo fan for my entire life and noticed that they were not doing much in the way of published materials. Can you give us the insider story of how it all got started? It seems to have been an extremely successful one. NL: Nintendo and Dark Horse's collaboration is a relatively new partnership. The following comes from a Nintendo Life interview with Dark Horse editor Patrick Thorpe.
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