Unusual for the time, Nevelow succeeded in getting DC to agree to contracts giving creator ownership to writers and artists.

Artist-writer Alec Stevens was the first creator to sign a contract with Piranha Press in September 1988, and his graphic novels The Sinners and Hardcore followed in June 1989 and January 1990, respectively.

Other Piranha writers and artists included Gil Ashby, Mark Badger, Glenn Barr, Charlie Boatner, Damon Cardwell, Tim Conrad, Michael Davis, Gerard Jones, Jon Hammer, Alison Marek, Douglas Michael, Steve Parkhouse, and Jennifer Waters.

[2] With his departure, the imprint began to drastically change its editorial direction in an effort to attain the commercial success that largely eluded them.

The book took so long for Cruse to draw, however, that it was later published under the Paradox Press imprint by editors Andy Helfer and Bronwyn Taggart, with design by Robbin Brosterman.