Lance Pope's death was quite unsettling, yes. As far as I know everyone's okay. Ysengrin's actually now in Northern California along with a couple other members of the Verdun crew, workin' on new projects and the like.

Play-by-Play is in Los Angeles, yep! Somewhere buried in a pile I have some of their flyers, but you can probably google them, they're a national company, I think their headquarters are in Texas, but that's from my fuzzy morning-memory right now.