Hi, guys –

After 50 years of doing business as Creative Fire Studio, Inc., I’m launching a new venture under the name FIVE CENTS CHANGE ENTERTAINMENT LLC to better reflect my goals and end confusion among those who thought I was a freelance arsonist.

The name comes from the good old days of Saturday Matinees when mom and dad would drop the kids off at the local movie theater with a quarter and pick them up three or four hours later, having spent the free time doing whatever married folks did when there were finally no kids around. For that one quarter, we got to watch two cartoons (at least), a short feature (usually THE THREE STOOGES), a two-reeler, sometimes a serial chapter and a double feature. Admission was a dime, popcorn and soda were a nickel each, leaving FIVE CENTS CHANGE to buy enough penny candy (usually three or five pieces for a penny) to keep you whirling like a dervish in class for a week.

With that memory in mind, the goal of Five Cents Change Entertainment LLC is exactly that, entertainment. I will be producing content for all media, including film, television, audio books and dramatizations as well as continuing to develop comics and graphic novels. The first project is already underway for DC Comics with more to be announced in the coming year under my publishing imprint Masterstroke Studios Entertainment LLC, which is handling omnibus reprints of JON SABLE. FREELANCE and MAGGIE THE CAT as well as a very special project: MIKE GRELL’S MATINEE.

Stay tuned for updates as we continue to push forward while pushing the envelope.

You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
Mike