Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-679780-20140506144907/@comment-1986314-20140506154040

No, Archie sued Ken over his claims to his created characters. Archie claimed that Ken had signed a "Work-for-Hire" contract, where anything Ken created would be property of both Archie and SEGA. However, Ken denied this, and the lawsuit ended up in his favor.

So now he has the rights to create lovely things such as this:

https://31.media.tumblr.com/fbe0d1fa22c552ee54ee4a00c5318b63/tumblr_inline_n4km2nUx7L1re1bwb.jpg