VILLARD MOUSE GUARD CORRECTION
Eisner Award misstatement

Kearny, NJ -- Apr 16, 2008 -- ASP wanted to make MOUSE GUARD readers and fans worldwide aware of an attribution error on Villard’s recently released trade paperback edition of MOUSE GUARD: FALL 1152 (ISBN: 978-0-345-49686-7, $17.95). On the cover of their edition, it is incorrectly noted that author David Petersen was the recipient of an Eisner.

In actuality, Petersen won the 2007 Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award, which is presented by Comic-Con International and the West Coast Comics Club during the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards ceremony, but it is not considered to be an Eisner Award. Villard Books sincerely apologizes for this mistake.

ASP’s hardcover edition of MOUSE GUARD: FALL 1152 (ISBN 978-1-932386-57-8; $24.95; a 192-page, full-color, hardcover graphic novel) collects the first 6-issue MOUSE GUARD series and includes 12 pages of bonus material. In MOUSE GUARD: FALL 1152 we are introduced to the fearless guards Saxon, Kenzie, and Lieam, dispatched to find a missing merchant mouse that never arrived at his destination. In this fanciful, dangerous and medieval world, where mice struggle to live safely and prosper among all of the world’s harsh conditions and predators, Saxon, Kenzie, and Lieam stumble onto much more than they bargained for…intrigue, betrayal, and a deadly, traitorous plot to overthrow the stronghold of Lockhaven.

All ASP titles are available worldwide at finer comic book shops, bookstores, amazon.com, Indie Press Revolution (www.indiepressrevolution.com) and electronically at DriveThruComics.com.

ABOUT ARCHAIA STUDIOS PRESS
Mark Smylie founded Archaia Studios Press (ASP) in 2002 as a new home for his epic fantasy comic book, Artesia (first published by Sirius Entertainment). Artesia, winner of ForeWord Magazine’s Best Graphic Novel of 2003, and its sequels -- Artesia Afield and Artesia Afire -- gave ASP its foundation. Artesia: Adventures in The Known World, a roleplaying game written by Mark, expanded ASP into the world of gaming; the game won the Origins Award for Role-Playing Game of 2005. Now Mark and publishing partner Aki Liao have expanded ASP to include a line of idiosyncratic and creator-driven comic books and graphic novels in the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres, as well as translations of several of Europe’s best titles. More information can be found at www.aspcomics.com.