Red Giant Entertainment Sends Creators to ALA 2014, the American Library Association's Annual Conference in Las Vegas
June 26 2014 - 11:18AM
Marketwired
Red Giant Entertainment Sends Creators to ALA 2014, the American
Library Association's Annual Conference in Las Vegas
'Medusa's Daughter' Creators to Forge New Relationships With
Libraries
ORLANDO, FL--(Marketwired - Jun 26, 2014) - Red Giant
Entertainment Inc. (OTC: REDG), an innovative Intellectual Property
company specializing in high quality characters and content for use
in a variety of media and entertainment, is pleased to announce
that the company will participate in ALA 2014, the American Library
Association's annual conference in Las Vegas. This year's
event begins today and runs through the following Tuesday.
Founded in 1876, the American Library Association (ALA) is a
non-profit organization promoting libraries and library education
internationally. ALA is the oldest and largest library
association in the world with more than 62,000 librarians,
trustees, and supporters. Its annual conference is one of the
largest professional expos of its kind in existence, typically
drawing over 25,000 attendees. This year's event features such
notable celebrity speakers as Jeff Bridges, Jane Fonda, B.J. Novak,
and comics legend Stan Lee.
Red Giant is sending the award-winning creators of multi-format
literary project Medusa's Daughter, author Jonathan Scott
Fuqua and illustrator Steven Parke, who will be on site throughout
the conference to meet their fans and forge new relationships with
library buyers. Limited edition Medusa's Daughter
bookmarks will be available at Diamond Book Distributors booth
#2015.
Medusa's Daughter utilizes the "sequential photography"
technique to tell a graphic novel story in a groundbreaking way,
released in three formats: as a graphic novel, as a prose novel,
and in a short format for reluctant and dyslexic readers. "We
are hoping to meet and greet librarians who would enjoy a set of
books that appeal to a Young Adult to Adult audience that reads the
way they do," said Parke. "It's a 'first-of-its-kind' book so it
should generate some excitement."
Jonathon Scott Fuqua is the author of three award-winning young
adult novels including The Reappearance of Sam Webber (ALA
Alex Award, School Library Journal Best Book of the Year,
Booklist Editor's Choice) and DARBY (Oppenheim
Toy Portfolio Platinum Award, Book Sense Top 5, Mark Twain
Award finalist). In addition, Fuqua penned DC Comics' Vertigo
graphic novel In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe, which was
nominated by YALSA as a Popular Paperback for Young Adults (2005),
and children's graphic/chapter book Catie & Josephine,
a Washington Post Book of the Week.
Steven Parke's A-List clients have included Fortune 1000 firms
such as Warner Brothers, HBO, Discovery Channel, Arista Records,
DC/Vertigo Comics, Houghton Mifflin, NBC, and A-list entertainers
like Prince, David Bowie, Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead,
and AC/DC. Mr. Parke utilized his decades of experience with
the evolution of digital art processing to create the
groundbreaking graphic novel I, Paparazzi, published by DC
Comics' Vertigo imprint, which received a grade of "A" from
Entertainment Weekly. He then teamed with Fuqua to
create In the Shadow of Edgar Allen Poe, the first-ever
all digitally photographed graphic novel, which was nominated for
YALSA's best horror novel in 2005. He subsequently created the
story concept and photo-illustration for the Fuqua-penned
children's book Catie and Josephine, published by Houghton
Mifflin in 2004.
Diamond, which handles a significant portion of the industry's
millions of dollars in sales to the Library system, is Red Giant
Entertainment's distributor for the Library trade, selling such art
books and graphic novels as The Cartoon Art of Mike Deodato,
Jr., Drowtales, The Mike Deodato, Jr.
Sketchbook, Wayward Sons, and others -- including
Medusa's Daughter. For Library purchases, contact
gallan@diamondbookdistributors.com
Red Giant provides news and updates at the following online
locations: http://redgiantentertainment.com and on
https://www.facebook.com/RedGiantEntertainment
ABOUT RED GIANT ENTERTAINMENT INC. Red Giant Entertainment Inc.
(OTC: REDG) is a Nevada corporation that specializes in
intellectual property (IP) development for multiple media platforms
and transmedia propagation. The cornerstone of this development is
based around the more than three dozen online and print graphic
novel properties in various stages of production as well as the
cast of thousands of characters from those series. These properties
have a readership that numbers in the millions globally. Some of
these properties are actively in development into other media such
as movies, video games, television, novels, toys, apparel,
applications, etc. through either direct production or licensing
agreements.
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