Periscope Studio is a Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

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-based illustration studio, founded in 2002 as Mercury Studio. Members of the studio work both individually and as collaborators on a number of high-profile mainstream and independent comic books. These include Superman

Superman

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, Batman

Batman

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, Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman

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, Spider-Man

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, The Fantastic Four, World's Finest

World's Finest

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, Swamp Thing

Swamp Thing

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, and Fables.

The studio expanded its membership and adopted its new name in June 2007.

Current membership

• Jeremy Barlow
• Ben Bates
• Jonathan Case
• Ron Chan
• Colleen Coover
  Colleen Coover
  Colleen Coover is a comic book artist, based in Portland, Oregon. She is probably best known as creator of the lesbian-themed erotic comic book Small Favors from Eros Comix, illustrator of the comic book limited series Banana Sunday from Oni Press, and for illustrating several short stories in...
  
  
• Ben Dewey
• Terry Dodson
  Terry Dodson
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• Kieron Dwyer
  Kieron Dwyer
  Kieron Dwyer is an American comic book artist and penciller.-Biography:Dwyer is best known for his work on Captain America vol. 1 , Danger Unlimited , Action Comics , Avengers Kieron Dwyer (born March 6, 1967) is an American comic book artist and penciller.-Biography:Dwyer is best known for his...
  
  
• Rich Ellis
• Cat Farris
• Paul Guinan
• David Hahn
  David Hahn (cartoonist)
  David Hahn is a Portland, Oregon-based comic book artist born in Los Angeles in 1967. He is best known for his work illustrating the comic book mini-series Bite Club and its sequel Bite Club: Vampire Crime Unit for DC Comics, where he also illustrated stories for Robin, Fables, Batman: The...
  
  
• Jesse Hamm
• Karl Kesel
  Karl Kesel
  Karl Kesel is an American comics writer and inker whose works have primarily been under contract for DC Comics...
  
  
• Steve Lieber
  Steve Lieber
  Steve Lieber is a comic-book illustrator. His best known work includes runs on Detective Comics and Hawkman, the graphic novel Whiteout and its Eisner Award-winning sequel, Whiteout: Melt. He is also the co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel.-Early life:Lieber was...
  
  
• Aaron McConnell
• Dylan Meconis
• Erika Moen
  Erika Moen
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• Terri Nelson
• Jeff Parker
  Jeff Parker (cartoonist)
  Jeff Parker is a Portland, Oregon-based writer and comic book artist. He is a member of Periscope Studio, formerly Mercury Studio.-Biography:Parker's earliest work in comics was Solitaire, published by Malibu Comics...
  
  
• Ron Randall
• Susan Tardif
• Dustin Weaver

Another comic book artist, Drew Johnson, the primary penciler of Greg Rucka

Greg Rucka

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's run on Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman

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was a member for several years, but left the studio when he moved to Los Angeles.

External links

• The Seattle Times' article about Mercury Studio.
• Periscope Studio web page
• The Portland Tribune's article about Periscope Studio
• Television interview with Periscope Studio members including Erika Moen and Ron Randall