Red Giant Entertainment
Red Giant Entertainment, Inc. is a Florida-headquartered comic book publisher and "transmedia" entertainment company established in 2005. Red Giant was founded by Benny R. Powell, former marketing writer for Priceline.com. Other key players include David Campiti, director and COO, also CEO of Glass House Graphics; Isen Robbins (CIPO) and Aimee Schoof (CBDO) of Intrinsic Value Films and Red Giant Media; and Chris Crosby, CTO and the CEO of Keenspot Entertainment. Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach joined the board in November 2014. Works. Comics. Webcomics. Red Giant published webcomics with partner Keenspot. Titles included "Wayward Sons: Legends", "Exposure", "Jade  Warriors", "Buzzboy", "Medusa's Daughter", "Katrina", and "Porcelain". Giant-Size Comics. Red Giant's "Giant-Size Comics" was a print comic book line of free, ad-supported anthology titles which debuted on May 3, 2014 as part of Free Comic Book Day. The line featured work by Mort Castle, story editor Brian Augustyn, and Larry Hama. As of 2019, Red Giant began crowdfunding projects under the Absolute Comics imprint. Film. The following Red Giant Media film projects are in various stages of development, production or release. Television. The following Red Giant television projects are in various stages of development and  production. Video Games and Apps. Bandai Namco Games America Inc. announced a partnership to provide more comic influenced games on July 23, 2014. Partners. Strategic partners include: Controversy. "Japan Needs Heroes", the company's Kickstarter crowd-funded anthology project designed to benefit "victims of Japan's tragedies", was fully funded in May 2011, and "Japan Needs Heroes II", the company's second such project was fully funded in 2013. Neither had been delivered as of January 2014. The company said both projects had gone to the printer as of December 30, 2014 and that digital downloads would be sent to  the Kickstarter backers in January 2015. As of at least February 2015, printed hardcover and paperback books had not been mailed to Kickstarter backers. At San Diego Comic-Con International in 2015, Stan Lee and Red Giant's David Campiti showed the printed copies of "Japan Needs Heroes".