In 1994, 55 Balete Drive in Quezon City housed the studio, Starfire Visuals, built by the co-founder of Image Comics Whilce Portacio. The team included Portacio, Gerry Alanguilan, Leinil Yu, Jay Anacleto, Roy Allan Martinez, Gilbert Monsanto and Edgar Tadeo. Besides comics, the team also did multimedia projects for local musicians such as Ryan Cayabyab and other artists like director Chito S. Roño. The men behind the studio opened the local network of comic book artists to the international market in the 90s. The biggest project of the studio was Stone, a comic book about Filipino folkloric creatures. Stone was the bestselling independent book in the 90s with 88,000 in units sold. Stone even had a soundtrack for its promo and radio interviews, the titular song was performed by Filipina rapper Chill, and other songs were by local bands Wolfgang and Razorback ("Voodoo, Who Do?"), and international rock bands like Our Lady Peace, Korn and Incubus.