Our nominated friends.

The Eisner Nominations for 2005 are up. Big congrats to everyone who was nominated and a special shout out to these close friends:Jim OttavianiLeland Purvis (photo stolen from E.)Greg RuckaSean McKeever

Monday, Monday

Everyone's busy as hell, but here are a few things to keep those of you who check this page regularly from feeling cheated out of the time it took the page to load.Here are some snapshots of comics people I found while tearing apart my studio looking for reference:Rebecca Woods, Matthew Clark, Mike Cotton and Brian Bendis. Looks like there's a lapdance going on there, but I think they were posing

Heartbreakers Meet Boilerplate!

This just in from Paul Guinan and Anina Bennet:Our new graphic novel, Heartbreakers Meet Boilerplate, is being solicited right now for June publication--and it's like nothing you've seen before. We know everyone says that, but in this case it's true! Find out for yourself. Then contact us if you'd like an interview, pages to post on your site, or anything else we can provide.The art for this book

Preemptive Strike: BS Walks!

Mercury is about to be featured again in a prominent Portland magazine (and you can be sure Kevin at Thought Balloons will know about it before we do, somehow) so I'd like to nip some things in the bud, as Barney Fife would say. We've been soundly ignored on our recent plea to stop asking if you can bring your talented or directionless children by the studio. We have our own talented and