Kunoichi Negotiating to Purchase Or Similarly Enter Partnership With ASP

I can't tell from the rhetoric used or the timestamps employed, but basically what I think happened is that at some point yesterday one of the big mainstream comics news sites (maybe this one; maybe that one) looked into rumors flying about that Devil's Due Publishing was planning to buy embattled small publisher Archaia Studios Press and was perhaps putting pressure on talent to sign with the new entity. Instead, they confirmed that it would be Kunoichi, Inc. making that purchase and DDP. DDP and Kunoichi are different companies but have an extremely close relationship based on DDP President Josh Blaylock acting as a co-founder of Kunoichi before leaving it and DDP CEO P.J. Bickett believed to be its current owner. The two companies are still friendly, as one might expect, and DDP is at this time looking into some projects they might be able to do with ASP.

Archaia Studios Press fell into some financial trouble at what seemed to me a pretty typical point of expansion earlier this year when the person running the business end of things left the company. They are best known for fantasy titles such as Mouse Guard and Archaia head honcho Mark Smylie's own Artesia. One item of interest that's come up on this site is ASP's closer-than-typical relationship to the gaming industry -- admittedly, I could be misremembering that part. The nature of the relationship is believe to make ASP an imprint.
 
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