Around 1991 the Houston area had various small interest magazines established to fill niches not represented in other publications.
[3] The company had individual neighborhood magazines, with ones for Bellaire, the Memorial Villages, River Oaks, and West University Place.
[6] During that month the University of Houston Small Business Development Center ranked the company as being No.
[2] After Clear sold the six community magazines to Media Ink on August 1, 1994, he had plans to pursue publishing opportunities in New Mexico.
[2] The company Media Ink, L.C.,[8] headquartered in the Old Sixth Ward area of Houston,[9][10] was founded by Lisa Collins.
[12] The company began using large, high-quality photos frequently and adopting a magazine-style format described by Walker C. Wooding, Jr. of the Houston Business Journal as "more sophisticated".
[5] 1999 Wooding said "Media Ink has transformed the design with a more sophisticated, magazine-style format and the extensive use of large, high-quality photos.
In its neighborhood magazines Media Ink established a new contents page "Grapevine" section that was distinct from its other regular-running columns.
[5] In July 1998 Collins, now named Lisa Perry, decided to reorganize the regional neighborhood magazines.