Red Giant Entertainment, Red Giant Media | |
Public | |
Traded as | OTCQB: |
Industry | Comic books, Motion pictures, family entertainment, digital distribution, Television series, Media franchise |
Founded | 2005Nevada) | (
Founder | Benny R. Powell |
Headquarters | Clermont, Florida, United States |
Area served
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Worldwide |
Key people
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Benny R. Powell (CEO) David Campiti (COO) Isen Robbins (CIPO) Aimee Schoof (CBDO) Chris Crosby (CTO) Mark Fischbach Board member |
Website | www |
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 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 personality Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach joined the board in November 2014.
Red Giant publishes a variety of webcomics with strategic partner Keenspot, including Wayward Sons: Legends, Exposure], Jade Warriors, Buzzboy, Medusa's Daughter, Katrina, and Porcelain. These comics are then collected as digital collections on ComiXology.
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 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 is scheduled to appear monthly in Giant-Size Thrills, the companies horror 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.