we're a publisher, technically, although other publishers i've talked to give me the cold shoulder and don't take us seriously. that's fine, since i don't have the network or contacts to build an audience... i think of us more as bookmakers than publishers, at least with respect to comics, since most of the projects i come up with are based on taking work by artists i like and making a wildly elaborate, expensive book out of that artwork. when you're only making 10 of something, it's hard to call it "publishing."