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By Periscope Studio, on May 13, 2009, 1:34 pm in: food, personal tragedy, sad, weight loss / Comments are closed

We found this in the back of the fridge. Does anyone know what it is?
meatshake

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So I guess you’re new here.

By Periscope Studio, on September 6, 2007, 8:06 pm in: Periscope, personal tragedy, sad / Comments are closed

I’ve sent out several dozen copies of this email today:

When our studio changed its name from Mercury to Periscope, I thought we were sort of stuck with our old blog URL. Today though, I was happy to stumble upon a button in the blogspot dashboard that enables you to move your content to a new blogspot URL, and I used it. Bang! All of our content was now available at http://periscopestudio.blogspot.com. Boy, was that easy, and since it didn’t offer up any sort of warning, so I assumed that the mercurystudio.bl-gsp-t.c-m address would keep the old content.

Um… no. Within minutes a spammer took possession of our old URL and pasted viagra and porn ads into a google cache of our site’s template. I’ve written blogspot’s support, but their help forum is full of people complaining about never getting any reply from blogspot support. I’m not expecting much help there. In the meantime, we’re sending out emails to you, our friends in comics, asking you to change your
Mercury Studio blogroll links to this:
http://periscopestudio.blogspot.com

And if you’re really kind, you could spread the word via your own blog. Thanks!

(Someday we’ll have enough time to put an embedded blog into our “real” site, but we’re all too busy with clients right now to do any development on that, which for a bunch of freelancers is hardly something to complain about…)

So that’s that. If you’re new here and don’t know who’s writing this, I’m Steve Lieber. I illustrate comics, draw storyboards and all sorts of commercial art, and maintain the blog for the twenty or so cartoonists here at Periscope studio. For background, Publisher’s weekly just ran a nice story about us. And if you’re here in Portland, Oregon a lot of us will be guests at the Stumptown Comics Fest at the end of the month.

That’s enough of that. Here’s a picture of Modok by Colleen Coover:

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Wednesday’s linking

By Periscope Studio, on March 28, 2007, 8:35 am in: David Hahn, Jeff Parker, personal tragedy / Comments are closed

“So what was good? First rule: look for Jeff Parker’s name.”
Johanna Draper Carlson talks about new superhero comics

Here’s the first part of an interview with Too Much Coffee Man auteur Shannon Wheeler

“it’s a homecoming film of sorts for one of the city’s most talented creative duos, the brothers Jacob and Arnold Pander. They describe “Selfless” as a “sexy psychological thriller about the corrosive nature of ego and obsession.””
The Portland Tribune looks atthe Pander brothers’ move into film making.

The Scans Daily Community is talking about David Hahn’s debut on Spider-man loves Mary Jane.

Finally, if you haven’t seen it yet, go read Jeff Parker’s tribute to his cat. Bring kleenex.

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Off, off to L.A.

By Periscope Studio, on March 17, 2004, 9:35 pm in: Boilerplate, Dave Cockrum, Jeff Parker, Paul Guinan, personal tragedy, whiteout / Comments are closed

I’ve got a lot of stuff to get done before I’m off, so this’ll have to do until I get back on Monday. Here’s hoping this doesn’t kill the great momentum we’ve been enjoying.

Paul Guinan has some updates on the growing fame of his Boilerplate site. If you haven’t heard of Boilerplate before, start here to learn more. Paul has done us all a great service with his thorough and extensive research into the shamefully neglected history of Victorian robotics.

It’s self-serving time. Laura Gjovaag has reviewed WHITEOUT and MELT on her blog. Always glad to see these books find new readers. If you’re curious about WHITEOUT, go here , and read the entire first issue for free.

We were very glad to hear about this:
“Marvel Comics and artist Dave Cockrum have reached an agreement on a contract that will allow Marvel to continue to fully own the many characters Cockrum created for the company, while compensating Cockrum for his years of service and the seminal characters he created.”Read the rest here.

The Cockrums still have a long way to go, with a lot of bills to pay. We encourage our readers to pick up the tribute book and watch for the benefit auction. You can see my piece for the book by clicking on the thumbnail above. David Hahn gave the auction a beautiful original page from an issue of Vertigo’s Lucifer that he illustrated, and studio buddy Jeff Parker contributed an original Batgirl page and a copy of his graphic novel The Interman with a cool sketch on the title page.

Speaking of Parker, I’ll be sitting next to the filthy wretch at Wizard World L.A. Stop by, mention that you saw this, and as time permits, I’ll do a free quick sketch for you.

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