Red Giant Entertainment, Inc. is a Florida-headquartered comic book publisher and "transmedia" entertainment company first established in 2010. As a transmedia company, Red Giant develops intellectual properties into various ancillary media forms including: movies, television, video games, phone apps, online comics, toy lines, cartoons, T-shirts, and other merchandising opportunities. Red Giant was founded by former Marvel Comics writer Benny R. Powell, who also served as the head marketing writer for Priceline.com in the company's early days. David Campiti, director and COO, also is CEO of Glass House Graphics. Isen Robbins (CIPO) and Aimee Schoof(CBDO) are both from Intrinsic Value Films and Red Giant Media. Chris Crosby is CTO and the CEO of Keenspot Entertainment. Internet sensation Mark 'Markiplier' Fischbach joined the board in November 2014.
Works
Comics
Webcomics and digital comics
Red Giant publishes a variety of webcomics with strategic partner Keenspot, most notably Wayward Sons: Legends, Exposure, Jade Warriors, Buzzboy, Medusa's Daughter, Katrina, and Porcelain. These comics are then collected as digital collections on ComiXology. List of Comics (as of 2013):
- Amped
- Arena: Earth
- Banzai Girl
- The Blood Conspiracy
- Buzzboy
- Catie & Josephine
- Crow Scare
- Dante
- Drowtales
- Duel Identity
- Exposure
- The First Daughter
- God Mode
- Greylore
- Jade Warriors
- Journey To Magika
- Kat
- Katrina
- Last Blood
- Legends of the Stargrazers
- Lizzie
- Medusa's Daughter
- Midnight Piano
- Modern Magic
- Monster Isle by Larry Hama
- Mrs. Hero
- Pandora's Blogs
- Porcelain
- The P.S.I.C.E.T. Identity
- Roboy Red
- Scandals
- Shadow Children
- Sherwood
- Shockwave Darkside
- Sore Thumbs
- Supernovas
- Teen Angel
- Tesla
- Thundersaurs
- TotallyTina
- Warlords of Oz
- Wayward Sons
- Wayward Sons: Legends
- WICKEDPOWERED
Print collections and graphic novels
The company publishes collected print editions of their webcomics, which are distributed to comic book and specialty stores worldwide through Diamond Comic Distributors.
Collections by their award-winning artists are periodically published and distributed, such as the collection released in 2013 by worldwide superstar comics artist Mike Deodato, Jr., best known for his many years of work at Marvel Comics.
- The Cartoon Art of Mike Deodato, Jr. (Dec 2013)
- Mike Deodato's Jade Warriors (Spring 2014)
- Mike Deodato's Comics & Stories (Summer 2014)
- Mike Deodato Jr's Sketchbook (2014)
Other Graphic Novels:
- Banzai Girl HC Vol. 01 By Dreams Betrayed (November 2014
- Exposure Vol. 02 Blind Faith (November 2014)
- Wayward Sons Volume 1 (Wayward Sons: Legends) (2011)
- Wayward Sons Volume 2 (Wayward Sons: Legends) (February 2014)
- Wayward Sons Volume 3 (April 2014)
- Wayward Sons Volume 4 (October 2014)
Giant-Size Comics
Red Giant's Giant-Size Comics is a print comic book line of free, ad-supported anthology titles set to debut on May 3, 2014 as part of Free Comic Book Day before their full weekly launch in July 2014. The company plans to circulate one million copies per week of each Giant-Size issue to comic book specialty shops and more mainstream stores.
The four free Giant-Size titles include Giant-Size Action (Wayward Sons / Tesla), Giant-Size Adventure (Magika / The First Daughter), Giant-Size Fantasy (Duel Identity / Pandora's Blog), and Giant-Size Thrills (Shadow Children / Darchon).
In August 2013 it was announced that Mort Castle will be scripting the Red Giant Entertainment comic book Darchon, an ongoing feature of their Giant-Size Comics line of free print comic book titles set to debut on May 3, 2014, as part of Free Comic Book Day. Darchon will appear monthly in Giant-Size Thrills, their horror-focused title.
In November 2013, it was announced that DC Comics veteran Brian Augustyn had been hired as story editor for the Giant-Size Comics line.
On August 26, 2014, Red Giant announced that Larry Hama is writing the Company's new Monster Isle monthly series debuting this November.
On August 27, 2014, Red Giant announced that Brian Augustyn is scripting a new Amped comic series debuting in November as part of the monthly Giant-Sized line.
Film
The following Red Giant Media film projects are known to be in various stages of development, production or released and may be leveraged for other media (comic, television, video games, apps, etc.) The films indicate Intrinsic Value, Red Giant Media, or by Red Giant officers: Isen Robbins, Aimee Schoof, David Campiti or Benny Powell as producers. They are listed on the Red Giant Entertainment website.
- The Alphabet Killer (status: released)
- The Attic (status: released)
- Blue Caprice (2013) (status: released)
- Death of a Dynasty (status: released)
- Experimenter (2015) (status: Filming June 2014)
- Gabi on the Roof in July (status: released)
- The Hebrew Hammer (status: released)
- Journey To Magika (status: animation post-production wrapped)
- Katrina (status: In production)
- Last Blood (status: now casting with director Simon Hunter attached)
- Omphalos (2014) (status: post-production)
- Run (2013) (Status: Released)
- Satan's Little Helper (status: released)
- Shockwave, Darkside (status: RELEASED; UK Premiere: August 21, 2014 )
- The Skeptic (status: released)
- The Sticky Fingers of Time (status: released)
- Supernovas (status: development announced)
- The Truth About Lies (2015) (status: Post-Production; Release 1 February 2015, nominated for Best Screenplay at Beverly Hills Film Festival)
- Wayard Sons (status: in development)
- Wayward Sons: Legends (status: in development with producer Dan Lin)
- XX/XY (status: released)
Television
The following Red Giant television projects are known to be in various stages of development and production.
- Exposure (status: development announced; Kevin VanHook producer)
Video Games and Apps
Bandai Namco Games America Inc. announced a partnership to provide more comic influenced games on July 23, 2014. First game to be released by 2014 Holiday season.
History
- Incorporated June 27, 2005 under the name Castmor Resources, Ltd.
- Red Giant Entertainment, Inc. established in Clermont, Florida, in 2010.
- Acquired Red Giant Entertainment, Inc., a Florida corporation (“RGEâ€), on June 11, 2012.
- On June 26, 2012, Castmor Resources changed name to Red Giant Entertainment, Inc.
- On March 4, 2013, Red Giant acquired ComicGenesis, LLC (“ComicGenesisâ€), a Nevada limited liability company that operates a user-generated comic site that hosts over 10,000 independent webcomics.
Partners
Strategic partners include:
- Active Media Printing
- Glass House Graphics
- Intrinsic Value Films
- Keenspot
- Bandai Namco Games
Marketing
Recent Marketing efforts include:
- E3 2014
- San Diego Comic-Con, July 27, 2014 with YouTube Star Markiplier, Red Giant creators scheduled to appear on the one-hour panel presentation include CEO Benny Powell (Wayward Sons), COO David Campiti (Pandora's Blogs), Mort Castle (Darchon), David Lawrence (Magika), and Giant-Size story editor Brian Augustyn.
- RGE to give away 100,000 ad-supported Comics at Comic-Con
- Toys R Us will be offering a free-with-purchase a double-size comicbook. Red Giant will produce four to five different titles each month, each comic with contain two new all-ages genre features created by top writers and artists in the field. Distribution will exceed 1 million each week.
Controversy
- Japan Needs Heroes, the company's Kickstarter crowd-funded anthology project designed to benefit "victims of Japan's tragedies," is reportedly yet to be delivered to backers as of January 2014 despite being fully funded since May 2011.
References
External links
- Official Website
